​Ryan Murphy in $300m Netflix deal

’The history of this moment is not lost on me.

I am a gay kid from Indiana who moved to Hollywood in 1989 with $55 dollars in savings in my pocket.’Netflix has signed Ryan Murphy to a multi-year deal to make new series and films, poaching the Emmy-winning producer away from his current studio home at 20th Century Fox.The deal will come into effect in July and is reportedly a five-year arrangement that could be worth up to $300m.The pact represents another talent coup for Netflix, which last summer poached Shonda Rhimes away from Disney’s ABC.Murphy, best known for Nip/Tuck and Glee and also a prolific writer and director, was thought to be considering new options in advance of the expiration this summer of his 20th Century Fox deal.

If he had renewed that deal he may have ended up working at Disney, which has agreed to buy assets of Rupert Murdoch’s [link=co

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