[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-netflix-paid-587m-for-ben-afflecks-film-ai-startup":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},4835,"netflix-paid-587m-for-ben-afflecks-film-ai-startup","Netflix Paid $587M for Ben Affleck's Film AI Startup","SEC filings confirm Netflix spent $587 million on InterPositive, Affleck's AI startup that builds film-specific models for post-production work.","Netflix quietly confirmed a $587 million acquisition in its latest SEC filing — and it's Ben Affleck's AI company.\n\nNetflix's Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed a $587 million cash acquisition completed in March. The filing didn't name the target, but the timing lines up with the March 5 announcement of Netflix's purchase of InterPositive, the AI startup Affleck founded in 2022. Bloomberg had earlier estimated the deal could reach $600 million. The gap between those two numbers is either a rounding artifact or a sign that some earnout structure didn't fully materialize.\n\nInterPositive isn't the generative-AI-spits-out-a-movie play that the headline might imply. Affleck has been careful to distance it from text-to-video tools, describing the technology as building a custom model tuned to a specific film, then deploying it during post-production for tasks like color grading and mixing. A 2024 patent application cited by Deadline claimed the tools could cut physical production schedules by 20% and slash VFX costs by half — numbers that, if real, would justify a lot more than $587 million at Netflix's production volume.\n\nNetflix has been signaling for years that it wants to own more of the production stack, and a purpose-built AI layer that speeds up post-production fits that strategy more cleanly than a general-purpose model license. The skeptical read: Hollywood has seen a lot of cost-cutting promises from tech, and a patent application is not a shipping product.","[\"netflix\",\"ai\",\"film-production\",\"acquisitions\"]","2026-07-18T18:30:00.000Z","2026-07-18T19:00:25.535Z","2026-07-18T19:00:28.436Z","published",null,[],"ai",[26,24,27,28],"netflix","film-production","acquisitions",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"Mashable","https:\u002F\u002Fmashable.com\u002Ftech\u002Fnetflix-paid-587-million-for-ben-affleck-ai-startup-interpositive",0,{"sections":35},[36,39,44,49,54,59,64,69,74,79,84,89,94,99],{"name":37,"slug":24,"count":38,"latest_published_at":18},"AI",2602,{"name":40,"slug":41,"count":42,"latest_published_at":43},"Security","security",315,"2026-07-17T19:30:00.000Z",{"name":45,"slug":46,"count":47,"latest_published_at":48},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":50,"slug":51,"count":52,"latest_published_at":53},"Policy","policy",169,"2026-07-17T19:49:53.000Z",{"name":55,"slug":56,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Hardware","hardware",126,"2026-07-16T20:09:48.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",94,"2026-07-16T16:29:46.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Software","software",72,"2026-07-17T09:42:05.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",60,"2026-07-16T16:59:13.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Startups","startups",42,"2026-07-16T16:30:35.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]