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"Comedian Mark Malkoff's successful attempt to watch 250 movies using his Netflix subscription recently caught the eye of folks at Netflix, and they invited him to their headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif., this month. \nDuring his visit, Malkoff met CEO Reed Hastings and sat in auditorium as company employees screened the video for his \"Netflix Challenge\" project \u2014 in which he viewed 404.25 hours of 252 Netflix movies. \nNetflix also declared June 11 as \"Mark Malkoff Day\" (see video above to view his visit and challenge summary).  \n\"Watching 252 films in a month was like a mini-school,\" he tells Mashable. \"I enjoyed it, but it was challenging at times \u2014 especially watching 29.4 hours of closing credits in a month. ... Everybody was really supportive of my Netflix project, except my internet service provider who I'm pretty sure hates me.\"\n\nSEE ALSO: Netflix Adds 3 Million Streaming Subscribers in Q1, Now Has 26 Million Total\nMalkoff says he tapped Facebook and Twitter to ask for movie recommendations and InstantWatcher.com to keep tabs on when movies would expire and when new titles would hit Netflix. He also asked Mashable readers for recommendations in the comments section of one post. \n\"One other thing I learned from my month is to avoid to any movie starring Vanilla Ice at all costs,\" he says. \nBased on Malkoff's $7.99 a month Netflix subscription, each movie he watched cost about 3.2 cents to watch.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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