The upheaval of Peter Rice’s appointment and Bela Bajaria’s ouster as chief content officer sets off speculation about the streaming giant’s next moves
\n\nPeter Rice and Ynon Kreiz met for a meal in late September, days before Kreiz surprised the industry by jumping from the CEO job at Mattel to become co-chief executive of Skydance with David Ellison.
\n\nThe report of the Kreiz-Rice meeting came in the New York Post’s Page Six after Kreiz’s role at Skydance was announced. That set off speculation that he was recruiting Rice for a big role at the enlarged studio. It turns out Kreiz had been trying to persuade Rice to take a board seat at Barbie’s house.
\n\nRice, however, was not destined to advise on matters of Uno and Matchbox cars. The former Fox Searchlight and Fox Networks Group chief — who went to Disney in 2019 as its top TV executive only to be unceremoniously axed during the Chapek regime — has vaulted back to one of the town’s most powerful posts: chief content officer of Netflix.
\n\nMedia coverage of Kreiz’s courtship of Rice is one of the spurs that pushed Netflix to make the move on a hire that will have…
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