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— Edward R. Murrow, “ ,” Warner Independent Pictures, 2005 Between the pandemic and M&E heavy hitters/wanna bes racing to capture their unfair share of the new consumer entertainment pot of gold, people at every level have been busy refreshing their resumes.   You can almost smell the fear, smell the blood. Theaters are struggling with their reopening and talking hot/heavy to remain relevant. Content producers/aggregators are checking their cellphone directories to see if numbers are still active.   Studios and networks wonder if they’re coming to the streaming table to eat or be ...

– Erica Barry, “ Something’s Gotta Give,” Columbia Pictures, 2003 It’s finally 2021 and from the movie perspective, not a lot has changed. Movie theaters cleaned up their collective acts scrubbing stuff, opening, closing, scrubbing stuff, opening, closing, opening and…hoping for the best. Studios kicked the can down the road again and again in the Americas and the EU with their multi-million-dollar mega hopefuls only to see chump change openings despite the massive marketing build up. Prepped – While theaters around the globe struggled to meet health and safety requirements, Ch...

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 from one grazing ground to another across a croc-infested river. We recalled it when we read a wide-r...

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 winner Nicholas Cage is busy working on a six-episode docuseries for Netflix, History of Swear Words...

– 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 you make. They’re probably as good as our neighbor’s kids’ guesses; and they’re in grade schoo...