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THB #378: Why IP Doesn't Suck
There are millions of bad ideas for movies. When an idea joins the 20,000+ ideas that are being seriously considered to actually be made into movies…
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THB #377a: Memorial Day & The Box Office Summer
Just a short commentary on this weekend. First, apologies for a mistake in the earlier column. Universal is releasing Strays, the dirty dog talking…
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THB #377: Box Office Summer
The last box office piece I wrote got very thicc. I know some of you glaze over when those pieces land. So today, I will try to keep it super simple…
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THB #376: Cannes... From A Distance
I’m not at Cannes. Been there a bunch. Not the last few years. I love going to Cannes. But as a guy who won’t share a room or an Airbnb, the price for a…
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THB #376: The Little Mermaid
There were 2 major challenges with bringing The Little Mermaid animated classic to live-action. First, you have to fill out the story of Musker …
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DP/30: David Magee, A Man Called Otto (and The Little Mermaid)
Right now, he is one of the top adapting screenwriters in the game, from Finding Neverland to Life of Pi to last year's Lady Chatterley's Lover and A…
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THB #375: The Rotten Tomatoes Fallacy
Statistics are funny things. We can all manipulate them, shaped to whatever narrative we prefer. Here are some funny stats about Rotten Tomatoes scores…
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THB #373: The First True Victims Of A.I.
Journalists. A.I. is coming for us first. Particularly, I would expect, entertainment journalists. This profession is the one that the rest of the…
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THB #372: The Math of Re-Bundling
Here is what Streaming was supposed to be… 500 million worldwide households… ARPU around $17/mo per household… $102 billion a year for each streamer…
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THB #371: Fast X (spoiler-free)
There are many ways to tag-line a review of this film… The first major studio film that might have been written by AI. The ultimate experience of a…
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THB #370: Strike Analysis - Netflix Is An F-Boy
“When people won't tell you how well you're doing, you can bet they're doing awfully well or awfully poorly. They're hiding the money. And that's what…
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THB #369: IP & The Endless Whining
There is a Paste piece by Jacob Oller has been floating around - The IP Era’s Venture Capital Philosophy Has Poisoned Movies - doing what is so often…
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