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Are Streamers Helping or Hurting the Movie Business?

2023/12/8
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The Town with Matthew Belloni

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Matt is joined by Ted Hope, a producer and former cohead of movies at Amazon Studios, to discuss streaming's negative impact on the movie business. Ted provides his perspective to explain how global streaming platforms have damaged the independent film business, how predatory pricing has corrupted the market, how the incentives of streamers have changed, and what should be done to fix this. Matt finishes the show with a box office prediction for Hayao Miyazaki's newest film, ‘The Boy and the Heron.’

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Host: Matt Belloni

Guest: Ted Hope

Producer: Craig Horlbeck

Theme Song: Devon Renaldo

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