Want to be a Hollywood player? Covid and streaming have changed all the rules
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R.T. Watson
, The Wall Street Journal
In shift to at-home viewing, the industry is racing to find a new way of doing business
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Streaming hit Hollywood fast. In its wake, the industry is racing to find a new way of doing business, rethinking who’s in charge, how contracts are set up and how stars get paid.
Studios are overturning their management ranks, empowering executives with backgrounds in business development, technology and strategy. Producers, filmmakers and actors such as Will Smith and Tom Hanks are trying to protect their interests in new contracts that aren’t built around ticket sales in movie theaters.
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A horse forages near snow-covered fields at a village in Anantnag, south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, Jan. 19, 2021.A man walks on snow-covered fields at a village in Anantnag, south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, Jan. 19, 2021. (Xinhua/Javed Dar)
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Snow lies knee-deep in the pastoral town of Gulmarg, or “meadow of flowers,” on Indian-controlled Kashmir’s high plateau.
With its blanket of white, the idyllic hill station is seeing tourists again fill its hotels, and ski, sledge and hike its Himalayan landscape.
The heavy influx of tourists is a dramatic change for the tourism industry in disputed Kashmir, which faced the double whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic and harsh curbs on civil rights that India imposed on the region in August 2019.
Gulmarg was developed as a resort by the British nearly a century ago. In summer, tourists meander through meadows, ravines and