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I think the implication is that working on that much influenced quality as people in the studio were stretched thin, rather than a flooding the market take. Which I think most would agree MCU and Star Wars have been hit or miss in terms of audience reception to the shows/movies with some being well received whilst others are more mixed. If quality was high people would probably still be more accepting of a larger amount of shows/movies.

More interesting to me that Linear has reached the point in that they are looking to get out of the business, still bullish about ESPN (Live Sports) but even there they are looking at strategic partnerships. It is possible they sell (either fully or a part of) ABC or close certain cable channels, probably FXX, Nat Geo Wild, Disney XD etc. that are more duplicate channels, and save money although Iger didn't go into great detail. Streaming will eventually turn a profit but Linear is on a steep decline for the last 18 months or so and given Iger's comment it has probably gotten worse recently, quite the turn round from 6 months or so ago when they were planning on riding Linear out for it's profits but then again a lot of things have turned more negative in the media landscape this year.

Just catching up on the CNBC interview now and this is wrong, the increase in movie and introduction of TV was diluting the focus and attention of the people in the studio (not audience), thus why they have pulled back and partially why they slowed down releases from Marvel, Lucas (and more quietly WDAS and Pixar) but also to slow spending as well. From the 41 second mark: "we ended up taxing our people way beyond, in terms of their time and focus way beyond where they had been. Marvel is a great example of that, they had not been in the TV business in any significant level, not only did they increase their movie output but they ended up making a number of Television series and frankly it diluted focus and attention"

The least shocking news of all time, I knew this would happen when he came back.

You have a source? I haven't heard anything like that is going to happen, I know the studios are slowing releases and going more into unscripted but that impacts Broadcast more than Cable or Streaming. Also just want to say whilst I haven't posted in this thread I'm 100% in support of the writers and it would seem actors who are striking and hope they get a great deal.

1. Fallout 2. Ghost Protocol 3. MI2 4. Rogue Nation 5. MI1 6. MI3 I think the reason I'm higher than the vast majority of people on MI2 is because I watched a fair amount of John Woo films such as A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled growing so I appreciated the film more, same goes for Face/Off. Didn't get into Mission Impossible until around the time Ghost Protocol came out but it is one of my favourite franchises now along with Star Wars and Pirates. Looking forward to Dead Reckoning which comes out tomorrow here but probably won't watch it until next week as my mates are busy and this is a film I enjoy watching with a good sized group and talking about how crazy the stunts/action was afterwards.

source: https://deadline.com/2023/07/disney-2023-box-office-summer-marvel-indiana-jones-1235431049/ All of I removed was some fan war nonsense between Marvel/DC and the normal streaming is bad talk that Anthony does so you are not missing much if you don't click the link LOL.

Major Studios YTD Box Office Domestic: Disney - $1.35B Universal - $1.13B Sony - $589m Paramount - $398m Warner Bros. - $264m Worldwide: Disney - $3.4B Universal - $2.89B Sony - $1.1B Warner Bros. - $898m Paramount - $871m source: https://deadline.com/2023/07/disney-2023-box-office-summer-marvel-indiana-jones-1235431049/

Streaming is a bit of a profit suck but I feel people are missing the fact the Pay TV collapse happened and 2013/2014 was pretty much peak cable 100m+ subs, even in 2018/2019 before Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock launched Pay TV was already down to 85-90m subs and in an accelerating decline. On top of that advertising was relatively stronger in 2013 than late 2022 into this year, Box Office was bigger in 2013 than it is now, theme parks were closed in some places last year and limited capacity in others last year (although they were still probably the bright spot in terms of profit they still could have been bigger), largely worse foreign exchange rates with a strong USD and COVID added to cost of producing film and TV over the last few years. Just a bunch of bad shit to deal with not all of which is related to streaming.

Agreed, I hate the removal of shows/movies and think yes it will lead to more piracy and distain of streaming services. I'm glad I watched Crater when it first came out as it was a pretty good mixture of coming of age young adult film and Sci-fi film, wild that as you mentioned it was only Disney+ for not even 2 months before being taken down. I really hope all of this is short term but feel that once WBD started this it really opened pandoras box and we may just be stuck with this now. This feels like what happened in gaming with internet delivered patches giving companies there an excuse to deliver a game that isn't finished/broken and fix it post launch, just a terrible proposition for the people that engage with these services.

I know people are throwing out that this flopped but I think it is performing very well for what it is, to be honest I personally expected worse. This is a film that isn't based off an existing IP and those have been doing awful this decade (2020s) I mean it has a very good chance to be the highest grossing Hollywood original film this decade. I know there is debate what constitutes and "original" film but below is what it has to beat. Top 5 Original Hollywood movies worldwide since 2020: Tenet $365m Free Guy* $331m Elvis* $287m Encanto $256m The Bad Guys* $250m *Questionable as Free Guy liberally uses existing IP, Elvis is a Biopic and Bad Guys is based off a children’s book. Should get to first in my opinion; also I feel looking at the list Encanto got unfairly treated as a huge failure in the short time before it was deemed a mega success on streaming, song sales etc. without looking at the broader picture of how original films are struggling. I still think Pixar and WDAS are going to go heavily into sequels as I have been saying for some time and there has been a lot of confirmation that they are ramping up production on a lot of those, I think financially that is that right call, however this is a huge positive for original animated films just need to get budgets down if they are to rely heavily on theatrical which seems to be the Disney game plan. Maybe for Pixar at least they could shift doing R&D costs only on sequels and make original films just using the existing tools (this is a oversimplification but hopefully you get what I am saying)

The company that publishes GQ (Condé Nast) is also owned by a company (Advance Publications) that seems to have an 8% share in WBD. At least that seems to be the likely culprit of the quick retraction. Wikipedia page of Advance Publications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

Yes plenty 2 series in the last decade, 3 in the last 15 years. The most recent series ended in 2020 but had a film continuation on Netflix last year.

No was never that short, originally they had the Premiere Access which was day and date for a charge but then shifted back to 45 days starting with Free Guy internationally/Shang-Chi worldwide and 30 days for Encanto and Strange World which had thanksgiving releases theatrically and Christmas releases on Disney+. Only film that had a 2 week window to digital (as in Apple, Amazon storefronts) was Onward but that didn't come to Disney+ for 28 days after theatrical releases but if they are including that it is a huge outlier due to the world and cinemas essentially shutting down.

When did they ever do this? Is he conflating the Universal/WB PVOD window with Disney+ windows which at minimum had been 30 days and that was only 2 titles most had 45 days and this year it has been at 90+ days for Disney+ with PVOD at around 60-75 days.

I love this stuff, always an interesting watch this season's whilst a little delayed is still great. Everyone comes off looking great here but Bryce Dallas Howard I think, on top of directing great episodes, just understands Star Wars (her route early on about blending storytelling with pushing the medium of filmmaking forward nails it) I would love to see her direct a film or her own series (similar to Deborah Chow on Kenobi) in the future.

Decade old news https://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-acquires-indiana-jones-rights-from-paramount-1200927216/

Just got out of watching this with my grandfather (who is in his 80s) was pretty damn good, both of us have it easily over Crystal Skull which is a film I probably like more than most but thank god there was no monkey business in this one if you catch my drift. For me this is the best big budget adventure film in recent time, no offence intended for the Jumanji sequels and Jungle Cruise which I enjoyed but this is on another level in terms of action and story. Personal ranking would be: 1. Raiders 2. Temple of Doom 3. Dial of Destiny 4. Last Crusade 5. Crystal Skull Also I'm not going to weigh in to whatever discourse is happening above. I will say this is probably the last Indy film (even if it earns a bunch of money hard to see Harrison Ford coming back and after Solo I doubt Lucasfilm would make an Indy without Ford) and I'm happy that this is in my opinion a much more fitting ending for the character than the fourth film.

I don't give a shit about what Samba TV says I will personally wait for Nielsen that said if I remember correctly the previous biggest (HBO)Max/Disney+ shared title was Free Guy and that did 2.5m over 5 days so very similar. source:

New Top 50 according to the rules that I'm not sure I agree with but alas: Enter the Dragon The Iron Giant Inception Pan’s Labyrinth The Dark Knight Space Jam THX 1138 Mars Attacks! Crazy Rich Asians Godzilla (2014) Sayonara The Prestige Them! Free Willy Summer Wars Pokemon the Movie Life of Brian Police Academy Empire of the Sun Never Ending Story Goodfellas Dail M for Murder New Jack City The Searchers Lethal Weapon Superman (1978) A Clockwork Orange Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Scooby-Doo (2002) Full Metal Jacket Looney Toons Back in Action Deliverance The Right Stuff Casablanca Keanu The Wrong Man The Yakuza The Music Man The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie Twister Crazy, Stupid, Love Blended Once Upon a Time in America A.I. Artificial Intelligence The Mission The Lost Boys Tango and Cash Million Dollar Baby The Lego Movie The Matrix

A quick top 10 (might not be the final 10), hopefully I get more time and am able to add to it. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King The Wizard of Oz The Iron Giant Inception Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Dark Knight Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Space Jam Crazy Rich Asians Godzilla (2014)

1. The Handmaiden 2. Happy Together 3. Farewell My Concubine 4. Blue is the Warmest Colour Will have to think of the rest but those are likely my top 4.

Action was great particularly the top down flamethrower scene and the film was shot beautifully however a little bit overly long could have condensed the Berlin plot maybe and cut out 15-20 minutes. B+

Loved this much better than the 1993 film I watched as a child (and even knew it was bad back then) hopefully this sets up more movies, seems like Yoshi's Island spinoff with the post credit will come next. Likely won't be my top movie of the year but could be in the top 10 or 15 depending on how the year goes. A-

Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to the finale as much as I am. I have unfortunately been busy with real world things so probably won't be around here for the finale but just want to say I have really enjoyed the last few episodes (yes even episode 6) and while I still feel this season is a step down from season 2 it seems like it will end strong. Last episode (7) in particular was fantastic as both a way to set the battle for Mandalore as well as setting up the larger Mandoverse/Filoniverse with some cool things being mentioned, without going into spoilers.