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Content Insider Special – Virtual CES 3 By Andy Marken – Since the earliest CES, the OMG of the show has always been the screen … bigger, better, brighter, more immersive, more versatile, less expensive. That’s a good thing because this year’s virtual event (and our locked at home lives) would have been terribly dull without the screen … and the content. 5G/NextGen TV, streaming and remote learning/work/communications tools are great, but they are nothing without the content creati...

Content Insider #702-1 – Multiple Choice By Andy Marken – “I spent my life trying to reduce the brain to a series of electrical impulses. I failed. Human emotion, it can contain illogical conflict. Can love someone, and yet hate the things that they’ve done. Machine can’t reconcile that.” – Max Waters, “ ,” Alcon Entertainment, 2014 A while back, we watched an African wildlife documentary and one of the highlights was the annual Wildebeest Migration – gnu and zebra going f...

Century Fox, 1950 Like the M&E industry, what is considered acceptable and what is frowned upon is constantly evolving. We’re not certain if the changes are good/needed or we’ll simply become numb and ultimately accept it as the “new norm.” Comedian and social satirist Lenny Bruce was thrown in jail in 1964 for obscenity. In the early ‘70s, George Carlin developed a funny as h**l monologue – Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television – https://bit.ly/39WJiNK. Right now, Oscar w...

– Peter, “ ,” Dawn Associates, 1978 What are all the market analysts and experts measuring when they track Warner’s Tenet in theaters and Disney’s Mulan streamed in the US and in select overseas theaters? Or how about Warner’s Wonder Woman 1984 and Netflix The Midnight Sky? Both drew about the eyeballs and sales you’d expect … move along folks nothing to see here. The world and industry are so different from 2019, any comparison of measurements, benchmarks or projections yo...