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"Kevin Spacey&amp;#039;s House of Cards cost &amp;quot;way above&amp;quot; the allotted budget. CAA TV literary agent Peter Micelli revealed how Netflix - and other digital media upstarts - make deals in Hollywood during a panel discussion at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium, reports Variety.   Micelli told a crowd of more than 500 lawyers in the entertainment business: &amp;quot;The cheapest show is $3.8 million an episode. House of Cards started at $4.5 million and [executive producer David] Fincher took it way above that.&amp;quot; He also gave estimates for two upcoming Netflix series - Eli Roth horror Hemlock Grove and the Jenji Kohan comedic drama Orange is the New Black. Micelli said: &amp;quot;The next series is Hemlock Grove and they&amp;#039;re doing that for about $4 million an episode. Orange is the New Black is just under $4 million as well. They&amp;#039;re huge-budgets shows, they&amp;#039;re doing things in a huge way.&amp;quot;  He also noted during the panel that Netflix is spending even more than broadcast networks are paying out for hour-long series, which rarely exceeds $4 million per episode.  However, he revealed that Netflix may face some competition soon for high-end programming buys from Microsoft. Micelli divulged: &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;ll pay a large percentage of the budget for it. They control it for four years exclusively and then you can turn around to re-sell to a linear cable channel. &amp;quot;But right behind them is Xbox and Nancy Tellem. She&amp;#039;s going in looking at it in a similar way to Netflix.&amp;quot; Watch a trailer for House of Cards below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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