Uncorrelated Interests

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Film/TV

A collection of 4 issues

Cementing Cinematic Synergies

“Am I worried? Of course I’m worried. The cultural space in which the movies I care most about have flourished seems to be shrinking. The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling. The state of the movies is very bad.

From Pixels to Popcorn

Introduction In the first part of this series, we outlined a couple of unfortunate truths about the theatrical film business: * Attendance per person has been in permanent, predictable secular decline for 70 years. * Major Exhibitors have massive balance sheet risk due to mismanagement of this decline and exacerbated by the

Pricing Like It’s 1969

Introduction In Part 1 of the series, I walked you through the long-term secular decline of movie theater attendance, and the still difficult to justify decisions Exhibitors have made to not only not cut back on their theatrical footprint but to invest further over the last 40 years. This has

Saving the Silver Screen in the Streaming Age

“Theaters are dead” So proclaim the talking heads from all sides - critics, podcasters, even industry insiders. We’re living in the Streaming Age, after all, in which content is abundant and consumable on demand everywhere. One of the major victims of this abundance is the now lowly movie theater;