Netflix Could Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck's AI Film Start-Up

Mar 11, 2026 1:47pm PT Netflix Could Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Film Start-Up: Report By Todd Spangler Plus Icon Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor xpangler Latest Audacy’s ‘Campus Files’ Podcast Returns For Season 2, Unpacking College Controversies Including Yale’s Naked Freshman Photo Scandal 39 minutes ago Snapchat Is Honoring DJ Khaled With a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at Its First-Ever Snappy Awards 4 hours ago AI Podcast Start-Up Rebel Audio Comes Out of Stealth Mode, Taps Mark Burnett as Adviser (EXCLUSIVE) 6 hours ago See All Getty Images Netflix, in one of its biggest-ever acquisitions, reportedly will pay up to $600 million for InterPositive, the AI filmmaking tools start-up founded by Ben Affleck. Affleck and InterPositive’s investors will earn as much as $600 million from the Netflix deal if the company meets “certain performance targets,” Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The amount that Netflix paid upfront for InterPositive was less than that, according to the report. Reps for Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Popular on Variety Netflix on March 5 announced the deal to buy Affleck’s InterPositive for undisclosed financial terms. The entire 16-person InterPositive team of engineers, researchers and creatives will join Netflix through the acquisition, and Affleck will serve as a senior adviser to Netflix to provide ongoing guidance. That came a week after Netflix walked away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studios and streaming businesses, opting to not make a counteroffer after Paramount Skydance upped its hostile bid for WBD by $1/share, to a winning offer of $31/share. Jump to Comments Netflix’s Steamy Campus Sex Comedy ‘Vladimir’ Has Chemistry Between Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, But Never Reaches a Climax: TV Review ‘Reminders of Him’ Review: The Latest Colleen Hoover Movie Is a Pleasingly Restrained Weeper About the Passion of Motherhood ‘Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars’ Review: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Latest Is a Desert Parable That Loses Its Way ‘Flies’ Review: Family Crisis Disrupts a Woman’s Solitude in Fernando Eimbcke’s Lovely, Lingering Charmer HBO’s ‘DTF St. Louis’ Is a Perversely Hilarious Spin on an Erotic Thriller: TV Review ‘Amadeus’ Review: Jefferson Mays Shines as a Funny and Frothing Salieri in a Gorgeously Mounted, Essential Revival at the Pasadena Playhouse JavaScript is required to load the comments. Loading comments...