THB #63: New Year's Resolutions, Part 1

I am writing these in alphabetical order. As it turns out, streamer-driven Amazon and Apple are alphabetical leaders. Comcast makes 3. After that, 2 more columns (of 3 and 4) to go. It’ll be New Year’s Eve before you know it!

In other housekeeping, I apologize for not offering audio versions of the newsletter these last couple of weeks. I have a good old-fashioned cold. Been tested. Not The COVID. But not sharing the nasal voice. Audio will be back in the new year.

And now…

Amazon/MGM: The purchase of MGM allows Amazon to lean into its natural lean, given the current leadership. Let the TV side stream hard, occasionally throwing a film to theatrical and let the MGM side be the movie side, occasionally throwing a film to streaming. This offers the opportunity for the content to assert itself in the way that the companies going both ways say they want.

I can’t argue that, for instance, the 4th film in the Hotel Transylvania franchise needs a theatrical… except that the third in the series …