When Netflix resigned Sandler they said Sandler's content was their most popular content. I don't think he is going anywhere any time soon.
Not sent from an iPhone On Apr 23, 2018, 2:16 PM, at 2:16 PM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: >Thanks for that link. > >I think the author is being a little naive however. I've just finished >a >new book by Ben Fritz called The Big Picture which is very much worth a >read if you want to understand current Hollywood. As he and many others >have noted, the middle has fallen out of the market place now. Studios >no >longer make $50-$80m movies because they put all their chips in >juggernauts >that ideally belong to cinematic universes. Yes, at the low end, a few >independent pictures creep out. Indeed horror is something of an >outlier, >with sometimes very profitable series being made at low budgets. But >just >getting Tom Hanks or Brad Pitt in your film is no longer enough. > >So these films go to Netflix - and perhaps Amazon. If they weren't >buying >them, then I'm afraid that they wouldn't appear at all in cinemas. >Especially outside of cities like New York, LA and London. Everyone >feels >much safer with the Star Wars or Avengers movie. As the article points >out, >major studios are releasing far fewer films altogether. > >In the UK Annihilation went straight to Netflix which was a real shame >because I'm sure that film would have been stunning at the cinema. But >I >couldn't swear that it would have done massive box office even with >that >cast and a British director. (It was even partially shot just up the >coast >from where my parents live!). > >I think the marketing of Netflix movies is a struggle - they're not >spending the cash a distributor would if they released the movies to >theatres - with a few notable exceptions. Personally, I'd like to see a >film reviews alongside that week's theatrical releases in newspapers. >But >although I might not recognise all the titles at the top of The >Ringer's >piece, I think it's fair to say that if you listed every film that had >been >in cinemas so far this year, there would be dozens that I couldn't >honestly >remember either. And many of them will have been, well, average. > >Both Kodachrome and Mercury 13 are on my Netflix list - but I need to >catch >up with Westworld first. I definitely want to see new films from Paul >Greengrass and Alfonso Cuarón! I just caught a trailer for Anon by >Andrew >Niccol, and I'm curious because I still love Gattaca (It's direct to >Sky in >the UK, but I believe Netflix elsewhere). > >If Netflix does a better job than it has done in alerting me to these >kinds >of films, and spends less time telling me about Adam Sandler films that >I'm >not going to watch even drunk, then perhaps the model might work. While >the >company is haemorrhaging money and to my mind the jury's still out on >whether they have a long-term sustainable business model, if their >growth >continues and they keep giving me things I want to see and, >importantly, >can direct me to them, then maybe it'll work. > > >Adam > >On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Just as there was a dot-com bubble in the 90s, I suspect we aren’t >far >> from an online media bubble, or at least a major restructuring of how >> movies and TV are financed. Just as the unions seemed to be working >out >> fair (or fairer) compensation for DVDs, content distribution shifted >to >> downloads and streaming. So we have to go through it again. >> >> There is a finite number of venture capitalists who can throw gobs of >> money at all of the companies like Netflix and Hulu, to get nothing >in >> return. >> >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:28 AM Steve Timko <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >>> A recent surge in new movies added to the service has made Netflix >the >>> biggest producer of original films in America. But if most of them >are >>> completely ignored, does it matter how many the company makes? >>> >>> https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/4/20/17258960/ >>> netflix-movies-streaming-business >>> >>> Not sent from an iPhone >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >>> "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. 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