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NPR: Barry Diller "The movie business is over, The movie business as before is finished and will never come back."
Posted by: Antibody on Jul 09, 11:12
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1014095135/barry-diller-headed-2-hollywood-studios-he-now-says-the-movie-business-is-dead
"These streaming services have been making something that they call 'movies,' " he said. "They ain't movies. They are some weird algorithmic process that has created things that last 100 minutes or so."
NPR: Barry Diller "The movie business is over, The movie business as before is finished and will never come back."
Antibody
Jul 09, 11:12
I can sythpasize. There is a way forward though, but major films stuidios will need to beat streaming directly, with better released films.
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VictorY
Jul 09, 11:17
Yeah. It's really tough to come up with better movies than streaming. LOL.
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goodvibe61
Jul 09, 22:29
He's pretty prone to making these kind of statements and hasn't run a motion picture studio for 25 years (rich old man yelling at windmills)
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notfabio
Jul 09, 11:47
It's not that difficult to see that TV movies are not movies. They are TV. How exactly is he wrong by the way?
goodvibe61
Jul 09, 22:26
Is that who 3ebfan511 is?
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TheWeekendWarrior
Jul 09, 11:56
Well done. But he seems to hate steaming....He sounds more likely to have lost his money on Luca....
3ebfan511
Jul 09, 12:54
i agree with him that the studios probably see it this way. but smart ones will realize you can't (or shouldn't) have one without the other
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cake boss!
Jul 09, 13:22
(making future plans in a period where streaming subscriber numbers only go up may cloud your judgment)
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cake boss!
Jul 09, 15:20