OREANDA-NEWS The production of each episode of the fourth season of the series Stranger Things cost the streaming service Netflix $30 million. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources close to the online platform.

The fourth season of one of the most popular series of the service will be released on the platform in May and will consist of nine episodes. Thus, the approximate total production budget of the sequel of the Stranger Things may amount to $270 million. According to the Complex portal, streaming spent twice as much on shooting one series of the Stranger Things as the authors of one of the most expensive HBO projects Game of Thrones. Each episode of the last season of the fantasy project based on the novels of George R. R. Martin, for comparison, cost the company $15 million.

The production budget of one episode of the fourth season of the Stranger Things also exceeds the amount spent on most Marvel films, except for projects from the Avengers series. According to a 2017 Variety report, in the first season of the project, each episode cost $6 million dollars, and by the second season, streaming increased the budget to $8 million per episode. The fourth season of the series will be divided into two parts, which will be released on May 27 and July 1. And the subsequent, fifth season will be the final for the project.

Earlier, Netflix reported the largest loss of paid subscribers in 10 years in the first quarter of 2022 — the departure of 200,000 users. After the streaming messages, Netflix shares fell in price on the postmarket by 25%. The company also predicted that in the second quarter the number of subscribers will decrease by another 2 million.