Editorial

Streaming Video is Evolving

“I have no one. And you are the only person that I can talk to. Now, whatever this thing is, you need it.” – Gilles, “The Shape of Water,” Fox Searchlight, 2017

Some people don’t take bad news real well. 

Take Netflix for example. 

They lose a couple of North American subscribers - 1.3M to be exact - and financial/security analysts say the golden boys (Hastings/Sarandos) have lost their touch.

And they’re not real sure about the other streamers either.

Really?

Editorial

Sometimes You Have to Destroy to Build

“That game has no rules.  Its puzzles have no solutions.  They just lead to other puzzles.  That’s what makes this game so interesting.”  - Dan, “The Old Man,” 20th Century, 2022

So far, WBD’s (Warner Bros Discovery) boss, David Zaslav, has relied heavily on the entertainment company’s past to move his deeply leveraged organization into tomorrow and that could be a good thing or … who knows.

He cancelled a number of DC projects, including Batgirl; borrowing from Orson Wells’ famous Paul Masson winery’s line (https://tinyurl.com/ywpatb4h) and telling financial and industry analysts, “We are not going to release any film before it’s ready…

It may work better for movies/shows than it did for wine because even after years of making wine for the masses for nearly 100 years, the winery finally turned off the spigot to become a conferencing, events center.