#i will kill all netflix execs.

[hailperseusjackson]

can’t fucking BELIEVE we won’t get to see nina and matthias reunite………

#ESPECIALLY AFTER THAT LAST SHOT LIKE THATS ALL I GET??????????? #IM GONNA BE SICK #killing every Netflix exec with a million hammers #shadow and bone #sab #soc #six of crows #helnik #matthias helvar #nina zenik

[marvelsmostwanted]

This is sad but unfortunately I think this is just going to be the norm for the next few years as streaming services die a slow death.

HBO Max should in theory be able to make money from a show that was at one point the top new series in the US. At the time, David Jenkins said "This is what happens when a major media company invests in inclusive mainstream stories" (agree!) but unfortunately that major media company, like all streaming services, has a terrible business model that can't support that investment.

This is an interesting article about how streaming services are losing money and scrambling to make it back by trying to convince people to buy cheaper, ad-supported options or bundling with other streaming services. Unfortunately for them, I think that's like... all of the options? At some point they're just going to continue to lose money. Making shows is expensive and very few consumers are willing to pay more when they could just cancel and use a cheaper service (or, you know. 🏴‍☠️)

This is also a good article that was written after Shadow and Bone was cancelled by Netflix about whether it could be saved:

"The problem is that while saving shows used to be plausible, at times, the cost of Shadow and Bone combined with the fact that streaming services are really, really starting to cut back on spending means that this would be an extremely tough sell. WB Discovery’s Max is being lambasted for killing finished projects for tax breaks to chip into its massive debt. Disney Plus has done the same thing and has said they will cut back on things like expensive Marvel shows. Amazon Prime is mired in expensive creator deals going nowhere and throwing insane amounts of money at projects they are realizing are not panning out. Paramount Plus losing $500 million a year. NBC’s Peacock is losing $650 million a quarter."

TLDR; Streaming services have reached such a dire point financially that they have to cancel some of their most popular content (Marvel shows on Disney+???? These have seemingly been very successful; it's wild to read that they're "cutting back") in the desperate hope that a new season of something that's cheaper to make will get more attention.

What I gathered from these articles is that steaming services are dying a slow death and sadly, a lot of good shows are going to go with them.

#as a teacher i'm Very Familiar With Budget Cuts and listen #when they start doing stuff that doesn't even make logical sense you know it's bad #this is the point where they're pointing at chairs in the break room being like 'do we really need that' #streaming was a terrible business model in the first place #subscriber services are pyramid schemes no i will not elaborate #mine #our flag means death #ofmd #rip in peace #where else can i watch con o'neill tho #him saying 'ooh daddy' haunts my nightmares i want to watch all of his content

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i feel like we’re finally at the age of information transparency on the internet that studio head execs are showing their own asses in an unprecendented way. like we all knew they were bigoted old farts who hate minorities and animation as a medium BUT now we have the entire hbo max tobacle, and that’s only the most obvious.

recently two tv shows for wings of fire and phoebe and her unicorn were cancelled– the first because of netflix budget cuts and the second because “nobody wants to watch a female-led show.” as for the latter, that’s so obviously not true that it’s laughable, what with basically every disney animated show being female-led and extremely popular incl. owl house and amphibia, legend of korra being revered rightfully for its badass queer woc main, the female-led infinity train seasons being just as popular as the male-led, my little pony getting a terrifying number of fans... i don’t even have to explain this to y’all i don’t know why i am, it’s just obvious that isn’t the case. the reason i lumped it in with wings of fire though is it shows that these execs literally have their heads so far up their own asses they don’t realize that they’re literally throwing away money. both wings of fire and phoebe are EXTREMELY popular with their target demographic– i work at a library and go to bookstores like, once a week, and wings of fire is THE kids’ series right now– every library and bookstore has a dedicated shelf just for it, every kid in the us and canada reads these gay lil dragon books. i don’t know much about phoebe but i do know that i have to shelf her graphic novels every goddamn day so they’re getting checked out constantly. making these shows would give these studios an immediate HUGE audience but they don’t want it because.......... ???? honestly the only thing i can think of is bias against animation, but also i do know that while WoF is very cishet in the first few books, later books add quite a few queer dragons and that could def be a reason. 

netflix also recently told craig mccracken, creator of some of the most beloved kids shows of the 2000s, that “original content doesn’t sell anymore” and they need to do reboots and remakes instead. which is funny coming from the company that made stranger things which, while nostalgia-bait for the 80s, is an original fucking story. also the owl house and amphibia are disney’s top shows rn. the most popular kids movie right now is encanto, a completely original story. and that’s just in KIDS MEDIA, do i need to bring up the popularity around everything everywhere all at once, squid game, the knives out franchise, etc? we’re in an age of remakes and reboots yeah but original stories can still make money and gain fans if you make a good fucking product. but netflix doesn’t care about that, as evidenced by how fast they cancelled first kill and also every other show that was good.

and idk what it is but something about the state of the internet right now means that we’re all seeing this in a way we hadn’t before. we’re all seeing how fucking dumb these execs are– well, dumb or actively malicious. or even trying to commit corporate suicide for some reason. it’s just interesting to me that all this is happening now when in the past we were just kinda like. stuck with whatever we got

#mine

[indigosabyss]

GPiDDS2 - Frank Castle

Frank, greeting Gwen: Pink. Frank, greeting Matt: Red. Frank: What's with the single colors? You guys the fucking Power Rangers? Gwen: ... Aren't you wearing all black? Or do I have to kill a Netflix exec?

#she's the blind poison gwen in this one btw #gwen poole #gwenpool #frank castle #the punisher #daredevil #matt murdock #netflix daredevil

[laurasbailey]

being a fan of sapphic content has always been exhausting but especially since lexa died.

as soon as she died, tv execs were climbing over each other to capitalize on our pain. so many new shows popped up with queer woman or queer women were thrown into shows with varying levels of success (for the most part the representation was Just Fine but we were desperate so we clung to it). they couldn’t kill them off when they got bored of them because of the backlash, so they were often sidelined or ruined because generally nobody knew what to do with them because writers rooms are often not diverse.

a few years of that and the representation waned significantly. as we all know, many of the sapphic shows that were first released in 2020 were cancelled. funnily enough warrior nun is (currently) one of the few left standing.

now we’re in an era where everything is on streaming and shows like heartstopper will get a double season renewal while the sapphic shows get cancelled despite the sapphic shows having more watchtime. and not just cancelled, but cancelled after a ridiculously long wait so fans break their backs trying to promote something that netflix or amazon simply won’t.

shows like warrior nun are flat-out doomed if it takes fans constantly re-streaming the series an absurd amount of times just to get numbers up. it’s unsustainable if renewal can’t be achieved with an organic amount of watches. the drop-a-whole-season-at-once binge model just doesn’t work if they’re so stuck on numbers, they should switch to a weekly model like hbo and disney+. 

anyway i went off on a tangent but i’m just so tired. it feels like we can’t just win without doing obscene amounts of work to get there.

#text #can i blame jason rothenberg for all of this? perhaps i can #but also i blame homophobic streaming services #who take chances on these shows without intent to renew #i didn't want to watch warrior nun at all bc like what's the point if it's just cancelled and i'm disappointed again lmao #but now i'm invested so the cycle continues i guess!

[enamouredless]

all the Henry creel parallels with will literally give me the WORST vibes right now with this whole one sided love thing... It really feels like they're setting will up to be the final boss of season 5 and the idea of will byers, the sweet innocent kid from S1-S3 who was put through hell and back and who would gladly sacrifice himself for his friends sake when all he wanted to do was play DND and make art ending up turning into a villan like vecna makes me SO ABSOLUTELY SICK I can't even think about that idea it would literally ruin the show COMPLETELY... watching season 1 where everyone tried so desperately to save will knowing that he ends up betraying and killing everyone?? the idea of the WHOLE SHOW being some sort of fucked up villan origin story for will makes me want to scream and cry and throw up and listen to me if this happens Im gonna have kill the duffers the writers and all the netflix execs with my bare hands

#getting a little too into it now #if this happens this will be my villan origin story trust #also this is the last post ill make for a while tired #byler

[whalleyrulz]

halloween 2023

22) ...how do i name this? some shorts?

so okay. life's a lot. we needed shorts, not full movies. one of the things i'm going to talk about is one of the best horror things i've ever seen. the other two require a netflix subscription. they're.

okay so let's just get into it

DISCO INFERNO is a short film made by netflix, that makes it absolutely abundantly clear that the netflix style model is "no style," and the netflix script policy is "eh, it's words, right?" it's about a girl in the 70s who becomes pregnant, and the nun who killed her mother in the 50s tries to possess her at the opening of a new nightclub. how does the plot resolve? to speak from the viewpoints of the imagination-less execs who desperately want to be the human equivalent of an ai model, "who gives a shit." it feels like the kind of thing you use in a cosmic court case about whether or not executives have a soul, to prove that executives don't have souls, and this is a correct truth of the universe

FLASHBACK is a short film made by netflix, that shows what happens when you try your best to combine a love for everything everywhere all at once with netflix corporate execs. a home invasion winds up killing people. the execs, by the way, win out. it's about a girl using her end of life experience to do, as was said before, "who gives a shit." at this point i really genuinely feel like someone at netflix is actively working to kill art in order to make us more comfortable with ai taking over culture and killing the rest of human history. hey guys don't fucking use ai shit for anything related to art. if you do i fundamentally do not like you as a person. this shit is so fucking vile and inhuman. and these two shorts, despite being ostensibly made by humans, stink of ai. they reek of it. they burn my nostrils with malodorous digitations. fuuuuuuuuuck these shorts. if you make horror shorts, v/h/s needs to be watched, and treated as a bare fucking minimum of what to do. fuuuuck this

BUT THERE'S SOMETHING SO FUCKING GOOD COMING UP WITH A LINK AND EVERYTHING (i didn't watch it today but i watched it this month and i neeeeeeeed to talk about it)

THE OLDEST VIEW is a youtube horror miniseries by a fucking high school student that is better made and more horrifying and more tense and more unbelievably powerful in both concept and execution than, i shit you not, 90% of every other horror movie i've ever seen

it's about a youtuber who explores shit, finds a hole under a tree in texas, and the hole is full of stairs. the stairs go to an abandoned mall. there's art in the mall

there's art in the execution

there's no on-screen violence, there's no blood, there's no gore, this absolutely fits into youtube's content guidelines. it is, in theory, corporate as hell. but because it's made by someone who can just Make Art, Fuck The Overlords, it winds up being absolutely unstoppably powerful. absolutely incredibly horrifying. absolutely one of the best horror experiences i've had.

i'm going to link the playlist now. all in all, you need about an hour to watch it all. pleaaaaaase do it. please. PLEASE. if you ignore everything i say about every other horror movie, please watch this. PLEASE

1. skinamarink | 2. smile | 3. the black phone | 4. talk to me | 5. m3gan | 6. significant other | 7. cobweb | 8. horror in the high desert | 9. the pope's exorcist | 10. knock at the cabin | 11. infinity pool | 12. becky | 13. no one will save you | 14. huesera: the bone woman | 15. scream vi | 16. idle hands | 17. a wounded fawn | 18. v/h/s 85 | 19. evil dead rise | 20. mama | 21. look away

#halloween #31 days of horror #horror movies #disco inferno #flashback #the oldest view

[lizzibennet]

best case scenario the new oc is eloise's new bestie (the word firebrand 👀), most likely scenario she's ben's new girl, worst case scenario she's gonna drama for kanthony (please god no🤞🧿)

i hate all of these LMAOOOOOO i want eloise's new bestie to be sophie!!!!! im still deluded by the .2 second comment anthony makes about her maid lmao. this is not the time for benedict to have ANOTHER fling if next season is gonna be benophie!! pls!!!! and if they give us anything but pure kanthony marital bliss i will kill myself in front of all the netflix execs changing the trajectory of their lives forever <3

#i was thinkin she might be like a girlboss to befriend penelope mayhaps #since they girlbossified her in s2 #anonymous #what is my ask tag again

[ragnarssons]

at the end of the day fans will have to accept that the live action is going to be its own canon, separate from the animated series. The sooner they come to terms with that, the less fixated they'll be on changes and just judge based on what the show actually gives us.

I don't want to prioritize keeping the plot ctrl c + ctrl v because that would be extremely boring and no one wants to see a line for line shot for shot remake. What's most important to me is the characters. If they nail the characters and keep it entertaining then the general audience will enjoy it, paving the path for a Season 2 renewal.

I do think something marketing does wrong is address all these changes before the show has come out. And with still a whole month of people running around with their impression of what's going to happen and what's not going to happen. Maybe things will settle down now, idk, but what we end up with right now, is people being hella negative, and some spam accounts (ex on Youtube) constantly talking shit about the tv show even tho it's still not out yet. (like the tiniest snippet of the cast reacting to happy tweets got a shit ton of negativy like "oh you didn't show them the bad tweets huuuuh??!" like ugh, of course, what do you want? these children to feel miserable at the idea of realizing their dream??) 🤷‍♀️ People who are determined on hate-watching the show, it's just... a vibe I guess, but sure as hell not the vibe I want to experience when I'll watch the show. Because I will watch it, because no opinion I can forge for myself right now, can be accurate as long as I don't experience what they've done with it. At this point I'm hoping all the new viewers will bring a good mood cuz I'm apprehensive, not of the show itself, but how the mood around it will be. My bet is still that 85% of the people making a whole fuss about Sokka's sexism wouldn't have noticed it within the context of the show, had no one among the cast/crew/writers said anything about said "change" (even tho... again, there are Netflix execs out there saying Sokka's sexism is still in the show). And it's even more tiring when there are some channels, on Youtube, talking about this change while the person clearly has not seen the cartoon itself. At this point, there are a shit ton of people leeching on the whole drama, fanning the flames, and writing click-baity shit that does not reflect at all what was said to begin with by the writers, or the actors (hum hum, like Variety did to begin with). Not to mention the fragile crybabies screaming that no one can be portrayed as sexist anymore because of how wOkE everything is and wOkISm is killing everything and stop supporting WoKE shit, and Netflix is so WOKE, woke woke blah blah blah. Ugh. I don't think people are so much against the idea of some stuff being different, rather apprehensive on whether or not said changes will be worth it or as good or even better. Or if said changes will completely denature the show they are supposed to give us. Which I get, but... again, we'll never know until the show comes up, so automatically dooming the thing into oblivion is... hey, to each their own, but people will not have that from me. And I sure don't flow with this whole act of wanting to convince everyone that the show is gonna sUcK (like yeah, no thanks, @ some anons) and you should really not be excited about it or just you shouldn't want to even watch the thing.

#answered #anonymous

[koreandragon]

The way every single entertainment industry is imploding is literally the result of late stage capitalism lmao we're at a point where greed is at an all time high and CEOs are making 400 times their workers pay. US executives trying to cut costs to buy more yachts and killing writers and actors and giving us shitty rushed shows with 8 eps that get cancelled after 1 season and all they want to greenlight now is IP not a single original idea in sight. Korea is the same and it got screwed by Netflix and its model so now all they want to make is 12 ep crime shows, actors are legit begging for melo and romance. China which is "communist" but their economy is capitalist as hell is another matter entirely but it's the same thing, they just doubled down on the rules to have dramas be less than 40 eps etc and this might seem like a lot but most cdramas are based on really long really elaborate novels and a lot of them are costume fantasy shows that need world building etc, some shows need 50, some 60, some even 70, they're like multiple seasons of an American show and the good ones need those episodes to tell a good story. It sucks because it feels like art is being killed from every single side and it's heartbreaking as someone who loves tv shows and dramas. Capitalism and greed is killing us and it's not even letting us enjoy anything while it's doing it, at some point something needs to change because this is tragic and horrible, like what is the point? What are we doing? Why are these people so incredibly greedy and evil, why is it 2023 and censorship is getting so much worse, Chinese dramas and movies from the 90s or hell even the 2000s had so much more freedom, how can you tell a story when there are 100000 you can't mention, a number of episodes you can't surpass, like are they trying to slowly run these industries into the ground????? Can't people just be paid a living wage to do their fucking jobs that bring so much money? Can't people just be allowed to make their art without insane restrictions that actually do nothing bc censorship doesn't actually work?

i genuinely feel like we're at a tipping point rn. like we've gotta hit rock bottom to bounce back again and we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel right now. this strike could change so many things. you know how something has to burn to the ground so it can be reborn again? i feel like that's the entertainment industry now. Netflix execs making more money in a month than i will in my whole life and they don't want us to burn their house down? 'oh woe is me, it's sooo hard to drive out to the upper parts of malibu....what do i care if your family can...what again? eat?? you should've thought of that before you became writers!!'

when bo burnham said “this is the life blood of our industry. this ever changing public discourse, this eternal conversation born anew at every moment, happening across all platforms, between all users. this feeling, this steady, formless feeling, that hangs over everything, this untamable, aimless urgency. this sense that all of this is going to burst at any moment. it has to, it can’t sustain like this. not with this much speed, not with this much force. the fear of what will happen when it ends, when it hits the brick wall. and the other fear, the deeper fear, the unspeakable fear of never hitting the wall. of this feeling never ending, never slowing down, but rising forever like a shepard’s tone. an endless and pointless climb towards a terrible and dense nothing.”

#ask #anonymous

[that-thing-that-feeling]

Joyce and Jonathan's relationship being neglected would actually be an argument against him dying - if they were going to kill him, they would be strengthening his relationships to maximize the emotional impact.

Agreed…unless, as the duffers said, with a death in the final season you don’t have to show the consequences, so they wouldn’t really show the emotional impact. Which would of course be terrible writing.

They did say though Netflix execs cried hearing the season pitch and I doubt they would abt Jonathan so perhaps he’s safe after all lol.

[claracivry]

Hey there!! I just wanted to tell you that I've been reading your stories lately and honestly, YOU ROCK! plus I really enjoy seeing you on my dashboard, you're so funny, I always end up laughing so much at your tags! also I have a question for you, it's about everybody's favorite boy Eddie Munson: what do you think about the possibility of him coming back for season 5? I mean, the way they brushed off his death was kinda sus..just saying! I would love to hear your opinion on the matter :)

Awwww thanks so much for the kind words, anon!!! 😭🤓🥺☺️ I am so so glad you like my stories I often feel like they're trash to be honest, and it is so nice to hear that someone out there likes themmmm (and I hope you're still enjoying the whump because I have ideas)

About Eddie: I think the Duffers had no intention at all to do anything further with Eddie, he would remain as dead as idk Alexei. But, but! Now they must have realised how huge he is, how much merch he's selling and why wouldn't Netflix want to capitalise on that? They're a business, not there to produce the utmost art. And Eddie brings money, just looking at the amount of Hellfire tees you can see. Sooo that gives me hope.

Again, the Duffers weren't thinking about this and are probably against it? Some people have said that Eddie is there so that they can kill Steve without killing Steve, and get that trauma for Dustin like "ohh how will he deal if he loses someone that close" which wouldn't work if Eddie came back. But hey, they can still do Dustin angst if Eddie "comes back wrong" or simply about the fact that he left the guy for dead and never came back to him.

Some people are like "but it would be so difficult to come back! He's wanted and he has no place to go!". Look, I've fixed Eddie's charges like two or three times in 1k-2k oneshots, and I'm sure there's many others out there. I'm sure Netflix execs and the Duffers have internet too. They can read if they don't know.

Or maybe they'll be like a shadow on the series finale and it'll be Eddie because there is a spin off about him and the plot is "how is he alive??" But Eddie would come back in some capacity.

Probably I am being too optimistic and Eddie is just another death like the previous ones. Apparently, you have to be there from season one to come back from the dead.

TL; Dr I think the Duffers had no intention of bringing him back but seeing how he's blown up may make them reconsider. So yes I'm a clown 🤡 who still has a bit of hope. Thanks for asking and sorry for the rant!! Anyone else share your opinions tooo

#long post #eddie munson #stranger things #stranger things speculation #also netflix isn't on their best moment is it? #they need the eddie money #so getting us more eddie feels logical #you know you want to netflix!!! #help yourself #and us #I'm a clown and a fool I now #but I can hopeeee

[ourflagmeansdeathlegacyproject]

My thoughts on Diversity

That word has been circulating modern 21-st century life in practically everything: corporate life, education, and especially media. Diversity itself is defined by the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc. 

In general, I think it’s a travesty how POC and the LGBTQ+ community can’t see themselves on screen in a respectful and gratifying way. Diversity is incredibly important because it allows people to feel seen.  To me, diversity gives me an inexplicable feeling. A rush of emotion and happiness.  That first “Aha” moment for me was reading Six of Crows.  One of the main characters is Inej Ghafa, a Suli acrobat.  It’s immediately clear from her details that she’s South Asiana and “suli” is a transformation of the religion “sufi” which is a mix between Islam and Hinuism generally practriced in South Asia. It just sudeenly gave me such happiness to even be recognized in a Western setting. 

Diversity, in my mind, is cut up into two opinions. The first’s that the media should have a diverse cast with an in depth look at how each person’s experience affects their life.  For example, having a black woman in your show and having the writing reflect the hardships and difficulties black women have to face in everyday life.  There is so much merit to this opinion because it is important for everyone to share their experiences so we can all empathize and work to fix racism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. However, it can sometimes feel as if we are pandered to; that the white straight cis studio execs behind these shows want to capitilize on the LGBTQ+ and POC markets.  It’s blatantly obvious in shows like Loki, where Disney, a company who has capitilised off of China’s money, threw in an instagram post of Loki’s file saying, “Genderfluid '' and never once mentioning it again. Winx: a Fate saga, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, 13 reasons why, Emily in Paris, Riverdale, The Big Bang Theory, Glee, Eternals, I could keep going. 

But on the other end, there’s what I call: “natural diversity”. Having POC and LGBTQ+ people exist as developed characters with story arcs not pertaining to their sexual orientation, race etc. makes them feel human. In my opinion, I much prefer this because our lives are not completely dependent on our sexual orientation. We are still people, humans with our own individual flaws and problems.  Some of their problems may pertain to that but they are still human; not a one-dimensional way for studios to say, “Hey look we’re diverse now”. Netflix’s Bridgerton does something similar where aside from a single line, “explaining” the diversity, everyone is just diverse.  It truly means something to a lot of people, including me who got to see people who look like me be in a period piece at all, even wear Indian clothes on screen.  I was so glad to not get a full explanation or a story arc deciphering how POC got to be there, They just were. It makes a remarkable difference to me.  

It also stems a bit from how a show is made, specifically who is making it.  It’s obvious, to me, at least, that if the people making a show are diverse, they understand those characters, they understand what it means to live that life.  Take something like the rebooted, live-action “Mulan”.  It’s completely void of culture and emotion and for a reason.  Those in the director's seat and around were white people with no actual understanding of Chinese culture.  But compare that to the new, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” which has Daniel Kwon as a co-director and writer and an impeccably asian cast(Michelle Yeoh is a legend and absolutely killed in this role).  

[msclaritea]

From Netflix Stock Drop to Mass Layoffs, Anxiety Grips Hollywood – Variety

"May 1Fear and loathing are on the rise in Hollywood as top execs and rank-and-file employees grapple with growing uncertainty about their place in a rapidly changing entertainment industry. One pervasive concern: that the streaming-fueled content bubble has finally burst, with more consolidation on the way.

Wall Street darling Netflix lost $54 billion in market value in one day last month amid concerns about a slide in subscriber numbers and promptly reorganized its marketing department once again, axing writers on its fledgling Tudum fan site five months after launch. And the fallout from the Warner Bros. Discovery merger and Amazon’s acquisition of MGM has just gotten underway, with top exec Michael De Luca exiting the latter April 27 and squashed initiatives at the former. Neither the disrupted nor the disruptors are feeling too good these days.

“We’re all waiting on pins and needles for someone to pull the figurative trigger on the inevitable restructuring,” says a Warner Bros. Discovery staffer, no doubt aware that the $3 billion in cost-saving synergies CEO David Zaslav has promised is really just corporate code for layoffs. The exec pulled the plug on CNN+ less than a month after it launched and the company has since begun pulling back TNT and TBS’ unscripted content, moves that will likely lead to job losses.

“2022 will undoubtedly be a messy year,” Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels told Wall Street analysts April 26 while discussing the company’s most recent quarterly earnings.

Abrupt strategy pivots such as the CNN+ closure have added to the growing unease around town. Netflix, known for its “Hunger Games” ethos, didn’t waste time on niceties while killing writer contracts April 28.

“My manager explained the layoff to me via text after she’d already been let go,” says an axed worker, one of the many who preferred to remain anonymous. “We realized something was wrong when her Slack appeared deactivated.”

In the agency world, two of the biggest outfits — CAA and ICM — are merging, with one insider saying that the level of nervousness among those agents who “don’t have a strong book of business” is at fever pitch.

“It’s inevitable when you have consolidation that people are feeling vulnerable,” says a top entertainment lawyer.

Netflix’s swoon is being greeted with some schadenfreude, particularly among executives at legacy studios who had grown tired of hearing about how algorithms had made the traditional greenlight process, built on gut instincts, obsolete. However, the reality is that the fundamental problems bedeviling the streaming service, namely a maturing business and increased competition, spell trouble for nearly every other Hollywood player. Disney, Comcast, Paramount Global and Warners have all moved aggressively into the streaming space to stave off cord-cutting declines and demonstrate their ability to evolve.

Now Wall Street has serious questions about Hollywood’s long-term financial viability.“We think the industry is facing a point of no return in which the economics of the old models look increasingly frail while the potential of the brave new world now appears overly hyped,” wrote Robert Fishman, an analyst with MoffettNathanson, on May 2.

Ramped-up streaming initiatives have been a boon for creators in recent years: Every week, it seems, some new showrunner has been lured to Netflix, HBO Max, Apple TV+ or any other service with a mathematical symbol in its moniker, with the promise of a megadeal or a multi-episode order. Film and TV writers are worried that they’re going to see a slowdown in work amid rumblings of significant Netflix belt-tightening and questions about the future of DC Entertainment under new corporate ownership.

Netflix couldn’t keep growing forever, so now it seems like they finally hit their limit and they will have to be more careful in how they do things,” one agent says.

In a sign of just how serious Netflix is about trimming content expenditures, on May 1 news broke that “Pearl,” an animated series developed by none other than Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Archewell Prods., had been canned. Not even the Duchess of Sussex is immune to the pressures of economizing.

Many economists fear that a recession is on the horizon if inflation proves to be intractable. To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are making major international markets such as China nearly impossible to access. And COVID has turned into a franchise that won’t stop cycling through reboots and sequels.

Last week, Discovery informed staff at recently acquired brands that they had to work in the office at least two days a week beginning in May. The short notice rattled many staffers.

Says one insider: “A lot of WarnerMedia people think they’re just going back into the office for the first time in two years to be fired by someone they have never met.”

[fleabaged]

To the anon in despair I feel like it's too soon to have a show like ke yet, at least this is what I'm telling myself to not go insane lmao-, yes season 1 was 4 years ago but, inspired no one? Writing a script could take you years sometimes, and then the entire production, that's at least another year. And ke just ended so. And I don't think it would look like a copy either, think of GoT, many people claim it's a copy of LOTR but if you've seen both you sure know that's not true at all. If we got super specific with the female younger assassin and older woman supposed to catch her, I mean that would certainly seem suspicious lol but it already is some sort of trope I think. Also think about the fanfics you've read!! There's people who've done wonders with this so simple concept and still managed to make it different to the show. Anyways if ke has inspired anyone that is the fans and I'm sure they wouldn't make the stupid same mistakes again. I'm positive we'll see something good in some years, everyone filming their on fix it I'd love to see it. Hope I'm not just being delusional though lmao

You are right! Definitely KE will inspire a lot of stuff I think (I know there is some vampire high school thing coming that notes KE as inspo- they’re already taking a fat L in my book tho because I could care less about high school girls playing KE 😹)

BUT- yes I think it’s coming but it’s whether the big execs ig are going to let them go FULL IN. Killing eve got so muddled and desexualized even with prestigious actors - I think the despair is like if they fumbled THAT how is the next corny low budget Netflix original even going to scratch the itch 😭 I haven’t lost hope (HBO or someone plz help us haha) I’m just 🫠 for now

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