I also never quite got a grip on Summer Wars. I got this sense that the pacing and storytelling was not at all designed or intended for me (as an American viewer, watching subs). But I would never argue it was a “bad” movie, or even that it didn’t work. I just got the sense that I was not the right judge of it.
If there are cases to be made for it, I’m all ears.
Jellicle post.
Isn’t a lot of that just fancy chemistry?
“AMATEURS!” bellows the shadowy mathematician from the dark corner.
I have so many questions.
I worked for a major CDN for quite some time, and there was no shortage of divination and reading-of-tea-leaves regarding who was up, who was down, who is surviving and who will get acquired in the content provider space. OTT media was easy money until everyone rolled out multi-cdn solutions and started putting the screws to each vendor for better prices. It was brutal, but I learned a lot about business watching it happen.
How much of all that AAPL buyout discussion do you think was 100% hopium? Sure Paramount had assets and means, but why would Apple want to acquire that and not rent it? Let studios claw at each others heels to produce viable content while AAPL sits back and pays a premium to choose the best bargain. Apple+ was never interested in being #1; the service is just table stakes at their scale (like Paramount Plus one might argue). AAPL’s business is manufacturing lifestyle products and hype. How was Paramount expecting their acquisition to bolster those pillars?
What was your vantage of the Ugly Sonic debacle (circa 2019)?
What did other execs have to say about Mother! (2017)? It was a beautiful disaster and I loved it, but it couldn’t have had many fans internally.
This CBS/Viacom tug of war had to be brutal as well, but the entire enterprise seems to be all under the Paramount umbrella now. Any regrets?
My guess: distribution breadth and advertising spread are based partly on how much interest the trailer gets. And the trailer gets more interest if people get teased for it.
“But,” you protest, “isn’t that what teasers are for?”
I would think so, but maybe cutting one of these is easier, and teasers rarely have info about release dates (aside from the actual film release year, usually).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The original article is here, but paywalled:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-streaming-losses-top-1-billion-year
I’d like to know if this accounts for it being a value-add service for Apple, something additional they can bolt into other services to entice a sale (iCloud bundles, third party subscriptions like T-Mobile service, credit card bonuses) where the company receives bulk backdoor support as part of the partnership.
That’s the reason you see Apple and Amazon branching out like this. They aren’t intended to be money-makers; they’re loss leaders.
WB just posted a first-look trailer-for-a-trailer:
Foam can koozie in the breast pocket.
Woke: Get illegally fired and act like you were fired illegally. Keep going to work. Let security block your entry. Argue that you still work there because the order to fire you was illegal. When you’re arrested, take the matter to court and get legal standing on the fact that your firing was illegal.
Broke: Get illegally fired and whine on social media about it.
Lately, I keep coming back to Jóhann Jóhannsson’s soundtrack to Arrival.
Remember, there’s lots of bourbon from places that aren’t awful:
the fink and the furher
If Rax was still around, Peter Dinklage’s deadpan delivery would have made a great rebooted “Mr D” mascot.
The movie was actually still playing. Two people were there that night…
🤣
The theater industry is fucked.
Jacob Elordi is SHAFT
I think it depends on the distribution agreement. For a big-budget, major studio release you might see one or two trailers like that (featuring this card), but exhibitors can put whatever else they want in there as well. AMC is the absolute worst about this.