Explaining the Business of Entertainment
It’s fascinating that between now and essentially March, Universal will be the only studio releasing films to theaters. And it’s able to do so because of its big “PVOD after three weeks” strategy it announced with AMC Theaters (and since others) in March. The first film under this new partnership
HBO Max made lots of news last week. First with a deal with Amazon. I thought nothing could top that. Then they announced that Wonder Woman 1984 was going to HBO Max. That’s a big deal, so let’s make that our story of the week. Programming note: I delayed last
This week’s “visual of the week” is a simple one: the number of Netflix subscribers in the United States over time. (You should know the top line number from my chart last week.) One of my goals with this series isn’t to make all brand new charts, but update some
(This is the last article in a three part series estimating how many US paid streaming subscribers there are in the US. Read the numbers here, and the first half of the explanation here.) If you’re wondering, yes, I deliberately wrote three (almost) contradictory headlines for the last two days. In
(This is the last article in a three part series estimating how many US paid streaming subscribers there are in the US. Read the numbers here, and the second half of the explanation here.) I’ve become a pinch frustrated with media folks who don’t differentiate between the US subscribers compared to
Let me tell you a pet peeve of mine. It’s folks citing how many Amazon Prime Video subscribers Amazon has. Because they don’t know. What you know, or have been told once, is how many Amazon Prime subscribers there are. With Prime comes access to Prime Video. We don’t know
For the second week in a row, we all knew the most important story of the week by Tuesday. And even more than the election, the news of a potentially very effective Covid-19 vaccine has direct benefits to the entertainment industry. (Sign up for my newsletter to get all my
In December of 2018, Netflix let loose with their first datecdote™. They told us this… Took off my blindfold this morning to discover that 45,037,125 Netflix accounts have already watched Bird Box — best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film! pic.twitter.com/uorU3cSzHR — NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) December 28, 2018 But
The story of the last week in American and around the globe was the election of President-Elect Joe Biden to the American presidency. Will this impact the entertainment industry? Assuredly, though exactly how remains to be seen. And as I wrote on Friday, we’re still counting votes to see who
Let’s not kid ourselves. This week was about one story. Everyone in America–and around the globe–was watching for the results of Tuesday’s election. I didn’t get any work done on Tuesday or Wednesday because I was distracted by following the news. So it’s our story of the week! (As always,