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Looks like after a long period of experimentation, Hollywood has realized that streaming is just a debt hole with no profits in sight. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wall-street-streaming-guidance-2023-1235302958/
QuoteBut the streaming narrative is likely to continue to change across the entertainment sector this year, a growing number of financial experts expect. “The greatest story America’s story-telling industry ever produced is not The Godfather, Star Wars or even Minions: Rise of Gru,” the MoffettNathanson team of analysts wrote in their Wednesday report entitled “Hurtling Towards Act 3.” “It is, of course, the story of the industry itself over these past 15 years. And, like almost any story produced in the Western tradition, this one follows a basic three-act structure.”
In Act 1, “Media companies printed money,” only to see things change due to Netflix’s innovations, the analysts wrote. “An upstart company took advantage of rising broadband speeds to deliver a seemingly magical experience: watch what you want, wherever, whenever, for far less. … Act 1 ends with the company that promised its customers the world well on its way towards taking over the world, and with the established order scrambling to muster a response far too late.”
Act 2 was about Hollywood companies pushing into streaming amid cord-cutting, or “attempt to replicate the playbook that had worked so well for the upstart,” as the MoffettNathanson team put it. “But even though the subscribers showed up en masse, profits remained elusive.”
Which takes us to the present day. “Now, we find ourselves at the precipice of Act 3,” the analysts argued. “Cash flows are sorry ghosts of their former selves. Balance sheets are loaded with debt in a higher interest rate environment. Rather than being the new sliced bread, investors and executives have accepted that streaming is, in fact, not a good business — at least not compared to what came before.”
So what happens next? “In Act 3, we find ourselves hurtling towards a climax where once-great companies will have to face the reality that they can no longer afford to light money on fire chasing profits that do not exist,” the MoffettNathanson team concluded. “For some, this simply means a new age of rationalization. For others, acquisition may prove the only salvation. For all, the present state of affairs cannot continue.”
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I've never seen an arena empty that fast in my life.
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It wasn't close and it was going to get worse even if the doctor let it go on.
As expected Figuieredo can't do this weight cut anymore.
He's big for Flyweight but iis Daveison small for bantam? So many exciting matchups for him up there tho. Who wouldn't want to see him vs. Yan or Chito Vera
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Flawless Victory.
LOL.
They had Belal Muhammad's "wonder who he is going to call out." tweet on the screen when Gilbert said Colby Covington's name.
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I wish I was wrong about Andrade/Murphy going 15. Someone should've stepped in for Lauren. Love her to death but when your corner is saying "Make it a wrestling match," and you can't get a take down while your face is getting rearranged - let's call it a fucking night
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Just now, Elsalvajeloco said:
If you grab someone's leg, you better have a good gameplan afterwards.
I'm sure he had one in mind, but Walker slapped that shit right out.
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Johnny Walker generating the power while getting pushed around on one leg. That is something.
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19 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Not sure how well sticking your chin straight up in the air and swinging with reckless abandon is going work against better fighters, but sometimes a win is a win.
You'd think a guy named Sniper would have taken advantage of that.
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Bonfim Brothers are here to take over.
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Jerk could've waited 15 more seconds to throw that knee.
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Fairn/Nunes setting the bar for the ladies tonight. Nunes went from a -50 to +120 in five minutes. Close fight.
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Burns/Magny might be really really good tonight.
I don't know what to think about Johnny Walker/Paul Craig. Like, in my head I see something really ridiculous happening. Almost comically. Like they both knock each other out. It just sounds like a mess.
I think Moreno takes the feud tonight. We'll see. I think getting to switch it up and getting Kai Kara France in was good for him. Figueiredo looked shredded like never before, and it honestly made me a little concerned. I think Moreno gets the finish.
I imagine Hill stuns Glover, who then grapples him to the ground for the night.
Can Jessica Andrade finish Lauren Murphy? I'm assuming this goes 15.
Should be a fun show.
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2 hours ago, piranesi said:
It sucks when a relatively obscure pastime or entertainment form gets popular.
It's like you can almost hear Capitalism waking up like Smaug and sniffing the air and saying "what's this then?"
I mean, it sucks, but it's awesome. Like I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with people that went something like this:
"Yeah I play D&D"
"Oh really, I always wanted to try that."
And then we were playing D&D. If it hadn't been popular that conversation may never happen.
So the bright side is, ttrpg are more popular than ever, which means more ways to have the most fun on the planet with the most amount of people willing to try it.
The dark side is, there's one system that is synonymous with RPGs, and the people who own it are making the people who do so much of the heavy lifting(create content, run games, buy all the goddamn books) hate it.
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Thought it was a weird joke when I read it. Just can't wrap around it right now.
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I feel bad for just about everyone involved in all of this except for those at the very very top of WOTC/Hasbro.
Though I'm interested in what appears the rebranding of Dungeons and Dragons as an online ecosystem, one that you subscribe to like a video game, and with an AI GM, engage with like a video game as well(complete with micro transactions and lootboxes!).
It's seems that the OGL fiasco was more to divorce D&D from 3rd party creators, to make it appear that the One D&D Virtual Table Top is the only platform in which you can play the "real game."
It reminds me of Gygax/TSR at their most litigious, telling players "If you're not playing by the AD&D ruleset, you're not actually playing D&D."
The good news is that those who enjoy Table Top Role Playing Games aren't really left in the cold. The game is still ours and can be played with no official oversight. But it's a sad end of an era.
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DC? Rogan? Do people think of Dana as an authority character like Mr. McMahon or Teddy Long?
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You wanna watch a guy on a three fight losing streak hunt someone down like a cold blooded killer?
Dan Ige is back.
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8 minutes ago, Craig H said:
Yeah, I kept meaning to ask you about that...
If the Saudi part of this story is untrue, then it's still a pretty tight race for dumbest money grab while fucking the fans. But if WWE gets sold to folks who were fantasy booking Yokozuna a spot in a Royal Rumble, despite him being dead for... a while... then WWE win by a country mile.
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Between this and the Wizards of the Coast fucking with the D&D Open Gaming License my hobbies are getting put through the ringer.
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So wait.
the Lovie Smith coached Texans blew their #1 thus giving it to usAND
the Lions pushed Aaron Rodgers out of the playoffs?
This is the best losing season I've ever experienced.
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On 12/2/2022 at 9:38 AM, Kevin Wilson said:
To be fair, there was never a good time to play Hines. I should probably check on him and make sure he's ok.
Embarrassingly I would tell myself "Oh you need to dump that guy when you get home." And I'd forget, and he'd play a goddamn Thursday game or something.
This season was not my best.
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Apparently Paulo Costa/Bobby Knuckles is off because Costa is nuts.
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/35287017/robert-whittaker-paulo-costa-ufc-284-card-sources-say
He may have just gifted Robert Whittaker a title fight if Izzy isn't ready to come back.
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So Cub Swanson is saying Rafa Garcia's cut on the side of his head was a fucking ARTERY, and it took med staff 2 hours to stop the bleeding. That is absolutely horrifying.
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2023 HORROR THREAD
in MOVIES & TV
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I could feel a wave of connections in firing in my brain that probably hadn't in decades. I forgot all about Saturday Nightmares, but that intro brought it all back. I felt like the grownups from IT coming back to Derry. Suddenly I can see the ending credits to Silk Stalkings and the opening drum of the Hitchhiker.
All of those kind of old "themed" blocks scratch a certain itch for me.