PARIS PARAMOUNT: Netflix Pulls the Plug on Nancy Meyers’ Big Budget, Star-Filled Movie

Netflix Scraps a Romantic Comedy from its Slate

Paris Paramount is no longer a go at Netflix despite recent reports that Nancy Meyers‘ movie was casting some big name actors.

Nancy Meyers was all set to direct a star-studded $130 million budgeted romantic comedy for Netflix. It was reported that the film, Paris Paramount, has been removed from Netflix’s proposed slate of upcoming projects and will not be moving forward. Some of the cast members who were rumored to be attached to the project were Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Michael Fassbender and Owen WIlson.

The central reason for the discontinuation of Paris Paramount may be that its budget was climbing steadily from the original $130 million price tag. At her prime, director Nancy Meyers’ high grossing comedies, Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated made just $124 million and $112 million domestically. So, $130 million as a budget for a director whose more recent movies have never grossed such an amount may have been just a tad too hard for Netflix to swallow. Sure, Meyers had made What Women Want which earned $182 million in 2000 but that was decades ago.

Netflix spent north of $150 million on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman so the decision to discontinue Meyers’ movie may seem a little unfair to some. While Netflix’s huge hit Red Notice also cost a fortune, that was a movie light on plot with performers who were easy on the eyes to look at. And, it was loaded with action. Meyers’ movies tend to be light on the action though heavy on the romance. But, why was simple romance going to cost so much to make? It may have been the selected huge stars’ salaries or the cost of the locations that were selected for the project that led to such a high price tag.

Nancy Meyers is a reliable director but doesn’t have the Oscar nominations backing her up that Scorsese had when he made his big budgeted Netflix movie. Even if The Irishman didn’t make a huge profit (though it may well have), it had Oscar nods backing it up which made it a prestige project for the streamer. Meyers is certainly due for an Oscar nod for Best Director and had all the potential to get such a nomination but, now, with the canceling of this project, we’ll never know if she could have got one for Paris Paramount. Or could this project resurface somewhere else where Meyers could prove Netflix wrong in their choice? Hey, you never know.

Paris Paramount was one of the most anticipated movies that was coming into view this year. So, it’s sad to see the loss of the film from Netflix’s schedule. Still, all hope is not lost because another streamer may take on the picture if the budgetary problems can be worked out. This movie had all the markings of a potential theatrical feature but that price tag was simply astronomical. Let’s hope this film resurfaces somewhere else in the not-too-distant future.

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