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Netflix buys rights to Orson Welles’ unfinished movie almost 50 years after shooting began

By , The Washington Post Hollywood’s most famous unreleased movie finally found a home — and 86 million potential viewers. Netflix announced on Tuesday it has acquired the rights to “The Other Side of the Wind,” Orson Welles’s unfinished film, the A.V. Club reported. “The promise of being able to bring to the world this unfinished work of Welles with his true artistic intention intact is a point of pride for me and for Netflix,” Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, told the Guardian in a statement. Welles, the acclaimed director behind “Citizen Kane” and “Touch of Evil,” left behind several uncompleted projects when he died of a heart attack in 1985.

 

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