{"id":1257942,"date":"2022-11-25T10:57:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/netflix-middlemen-percentage-not-favouring-ghanaian-producers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:57:50","slug":"netflix-middlemen-percentage-not-favouring-ghanaian-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/netflix-middlemen-percentage-not-favouring-ghanaian-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Netflix Middlemen Percentage Not Favouring Ghanaian Producers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Mzgee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian media personality and broadcaster, Gloria Akpene Nyarku-Acquah known in the showbiz scene as MzGee, has accused some Netflix middlemen for been part of the reasons why most Ghanaian blockbuster productions are unable to make it to the Netflix movie chart due to their high percentage demand.<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken media personality said conversations with some of the Ghanaian movie producers revealed that they go through a lot of processes before they sign deals with middlemen who aid them in securing a spot with Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I have heard about Netflix is there is always a middleman who is a distributor and aids producers to get their movies on the streaming movie platform. But these distributors\u2019 percentage they demand is another issue to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will realise that of late you will see great production, but fails to be on Netflix because it has to do with the negotiation deals between the producer and middlemen, making it difficult to see more Ghanaian production on that network (sic),\u201d she disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>According to MzGee, her interactions with renowned Ghanaian producer Peter Sedufia shows the middlemen deals are not favouring most of them in the industry, which even led to the delay of his movie \u201cAloe Vera\u201d which premiered on Netflix some months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sometimes discourages the producers to submit their movies to Netflix considering the hectic procedures they have to endure before they get their movies on Netflix,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has always supported quality and original content produced by artists and filmmakers all around the world. And Ghanaian movies are no different. But the Ghanaian movie industry has faced some challenges in getting their movies to the Netflix movie charts.<\/p>\n<p>Directors like Shirley Frimpong-Manso, Yvonne Nelson, Leila Djansi, and Peter Sedufia have held the Ghanaian movie industry down by producing top-notch and intriguing stories, adding to the list of movies and making it big on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their movies on Netflix include \u2018The Perfect Picture: Ten Years Later\u2019, and \u2018Sin City\u2019, \u2018Fix Us\u2019, \u2018Azali\u2019, \u2018Side Chic Gang\u2019, \u2018Keteke\u2019, \u201840 &amp; Single\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Prince Fiifi Yorke\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mzgee \u00a0 Ghanaian media personality and broadcaster, Gloria Akpene Nyarku-Acquah known in the showbiz scene as MzGee, has accused some Netflix middlemen for been part of the reasons why most Ghanaian blockbuster productions are unable to make it to the Netflix movie chart due to their high percentage demand. The outspoken media personality said conversations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29356,1750,2420,8148,7195,5364],"class_list":["post-1257942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-favouring","tag-ghanaian","tag-middlemen","tag-netflix","tag-percentage","tag-producers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}