Ben Affleck’s big payday: SEC filing shows INSANE sum Netflix paid for actor’s AI startup company… after reports it was worth up to $600M

Netflix acquired Ben Affleck’s artificial intelligence start-up InterPositive last March, and now the crazy amount the streaming giant paid has been revealed.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, the publisher stated that it pays the company $587 million in cash annually. Hollywood Reporter.

According to the news, information was provided in the company’s 10-Q form and the following statements were made: ‘In March 2026, the Company completed an acquisition accounted for as a business combination with a total purchase price of approximately $587 million consisting of cash consideration.’

Although InterPositive’s name was not explicitly mentioned in the document, the Netflix deal was announced on March 5.

The price was also included in the company’s Q1 10-Q report, completed in May.

In a statement earlier this year, Affleck said he ‘couldn’t be happier’ with the deal, after quietly launching the Los Angeles-based company in 2022 with a team of 16 engineers, researchers and creatives.

The publisher disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Friday that it paid $587 million in cash to Affleck’s company.

An insider previously said Bloomberg In March, the movie star-turned-senior advisor and his investors revealed they could earn up to $600 million from the streaming giant as long as it met ‘certain performance targets’.

Affleck said: ‘InterPositive is a tool designed to solve specific problems I face as a filmmaker that gets you closer to filmmaking. Netflix video last spring.

‘This isn’t about text redirection or making something out of nothing. You make a model from your own material.

‘That’s how it works. ‘Before you can actually build your model around your film using AI, you first need to create your film.’

He explained that he wanted to ‘eliminate all the logistical, difficult and technical issues that often get in the way’.

“You can use your own model to remove cables from stunts, reframe a shot, capture a shot you missed, shape the lighting, enhance the background,” the Oscar-winning star said.

“If you can eliminate some of those problems, yes, you can do it quicker, you can do it easier, you’re giving more options, you’re giving more opportunities, you’re getting more episodes of your favorite shows, you’re getting more human labor,” he said.

Affleck emphasized that the goal is to “preserve what makes storytelling human” and promised that he and the streamer will do so based on shared “values” and Netflix’s “responsibility to implement and scale the technology.”

Ben Affleck got a major boost to his reported $150 million fortune last week with Netflix’s acquisition of AI start-up company InterPositive (pictured January 13)

An insider told Bloomberg in March that the movie star-turned-senior advisor and his investors would earn up to $600 million from the streaming giant as long as he met “certain performance targets.”

Affleck shared: ‘You can use your own model to remove cables from stunts, reframe a shot, capture a shot you missed, shape lighting, enhance backgrounds.’

Earlier this year, Affleck starred in the Netflix crime/thriller The Rip, which he produced and starred in alongside his longtime best friend and collaborator Matt Damon.

Directed by Joe Carnahan, the film is about Miami police officers who confiscated millions of dollars.

Affleck and Damon first gained film fame with the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, which earned them an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

The father of three, who was previously married to Jennifer Garner and later Jennifer Lopez, also won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2012 as the producer of Argo.