Eduard Cuelenaere

Recycling as ‘IP extractivism’ in the age of platformization: A comparative analysis of Netflix, Amazon Prime video, and Disney+ - Eduard Cuelenaere, 2026 Streamers have become central to the production, circulation, and consumption of audiovisual content, reshaping how cultural industries manage creative risk and...

For a full account of the argument and analysis, the article is available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I draw on cultural studies, media industry studies, platform studies, and critical political economy.

From this perspective, recycling emerges as a structural effect of platform capitalism. Empirically, the analysis is based on a comparative dataset of all Netflix, APV and D+ Original films

New article in Convergence: I argue that content recycling is not simply a symptom of creative exhaustion, but a structural logic of platformized cultural production.

"IP extractivism" is brought forward to explain how streamers convert narrative worlds into modular, data-governed assets.

Van 'Daens' tot 'Undercover', van 'Mira' tot 'Knokke Off': Vlaams-Nederlandse coproducties bestaan al decennia, maar met wisselend succes. Samen met Alexander De Man schreef ik een stuk voor @delagelanden.bsky.social over de moeizame liefde tussen Vlaanderen en Nederland op het scherm.

Looking over Netflix's February slate and what is interesting and timely is the use of European IP for remakes. Two films are remakes of Nflix originals from other countries: The Wrong Track (Norwegian remake of a Swedish film) and Honeymoon Crasher (French remake of Spanish film). (1)

wow. Upon Court order, incriminating exhibits were unsealed at 3:30am in an AI lawsuit against Meta. Once past a 'fake privilege,' it appears Zuckerberg approved the use of a highly controversial, pirated dataset.
Note OpenAI, too? AI companies with no ethics or guardrails. /1

(PDF) From Undercover to Ferry: SVOD Franchise Development in Small European Audiovisual Markets PDF | This chapter examines the practices of localisation within the context of transmedia/universe storytelling and recycled filmmaking in the age of... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

Lots of new movies coming out on VOD just now, but don't overlook Nflix's Ferry 2 which comes out today. It is a continuation of the Belgian franchise Undercover, which @deduard.bsky.social and Stijn Joye wrote about for our book on Euro Cinema and Streaming. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A bar graph that shows that Netflix released 69 original films in 2017, 132 in 2018, 159 in 2019, 203 in 2020, 256 in 2021, 263 in 2022, 206 in 2023 and 186 in 2024.

One last end-of-year thread from me, this one with some quant data on Netflix original film releases. Firstly, the headline number is a total of 186 feature-length originals were released by Netflix in the US. Worth noting here that the volume has now DROPPED to pre-pandemic levels (1).

🔔🔔New report out today from the European Audiovisual Observatory with plenty of stats and insights regarding 2023 production activity and longer term trends. Short 🧵 rm.coe.int/audiovisual-...