As part of the agreement, Anna Winger and the creator herself will produce an international series for Netflix.
The first title to be fulfilled under the contract will be “Transatlantic”. This drama series takes place in the year 1940 in Marseille, France. It is inspired by the true adventures of the Emergency Rescue Committee and Julie Oringer’s novel “The Flight Portfolio” from 2019. The series was created by Winger and Daniel Hendler and is currently in pre-production.
Anna Winger works in Berlin
Winger also works with the UK band Anne Mensah on a series set in the contemporary English countryside.
Anna Winger’s production company is based in Berlin and works with screenwriters from all over the world on series set in Europe, Africa and Great Britain. Winger will also work with the Netflix Grow Creative initiative to support young European talent.
Netflix has more than 200 million subscribers
In the fourth quarter of last year, the number of Netflix subscribers increased by 8.5 million to 203.66 million. The company recorded an increase in revenue from 5.47 to 6.64 billion dollars, and its net profit decreased from 587 to 542 million PLN. The series released in the quarter were “The Crown”, “Gambit Królowej”, and the movie “The Midnight Sky”.
According to a Gemius/PBI survey in July of this year. Netflix had 5.41 million users in Poland.
The platform does not disclose the number of paying users in Poland. Comapritech estimates that there may be 900,000 of them.
