Join us as we hear from Doug Belgrad on Wednesday, March 5 at 7PM in SHDH 209! Doug is Vice President of Original Films at Netflix, where he oversees all movies made in-house from development to release, including upcoming films Knives Out 3, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, RIP, Ladies First, Fast and Loose, and Happy Gilmore 2. Previously, Doug founded 2.0 Entertainment, a film and television production and financing company, based at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he was President of the Motion Picture Group prior. There, he was involved in launching and revitalizing live-action I.P., including the Spiderman franchise, Jumanji, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Jump Street, Grown-Ups, Smurfs, and others. He also supervised a a range of high-quality commercial dramas, including 21, The Social Network, Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips, American Hustle, and Concussion. Doug graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in history and began his career at Kidder, Peabody as a securities analyst, specializing in media and entertainment companies, before joining Columbia Pictures in 1989. Doug is married and has 3 adult children.