Movies have always been part of Netflix’s corporate DNA. Before reinventing itself as a streaming powerhouse, it was primarily a postal DVD rental company: not so long ago you might have added Men in Black to your Netflix wish list and waited a few days for the Blu-ray to plop through your letterbox. In 2017, the company isn’t posting Will Smith movies, it is making them. The genre-mashing urban fantasy Bright – a $90m action thriller directed by Suicide Squad’s David Ayer and starring Smith as a crotchety
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