the explosion of streaming subscriptions is rent-seeking for movies. buy rights to a bunch of shit and corral it behind your tax booth. not really 'production' per-se and the few 'original' shows each new streamer puts out to prove their worth is a drop in the bucket, really.
what's happening is they're all drawing from the same well and it cannot sustain 100 different rentiers. so like cable, and theaters and movie studios long before, it's gonna consolidate when all these assholes start failing
I think there's something to be said for novelty, though. Modern productions reflect the culture they were produced in, and that familiarity is one less barrier for an audience to overcome. If we have "all this shit" to wade through, something new seems, to me, like it could be "relevant", "fresh", or oh no the marketing is working
the explosion of streaming subscriptions is rent-seeking for movies. buy rights to a bunch of shit and corral it behind your tax booth. not really 'production' per-se and the few 'original' shows each new streamer puts out to prove their worth is a drop in the bucket, really.
what's happening is they're all drawing from the same well and it cannot sustain 100 different rentiers. so like cable, and theaters and movie studios long before, it's gonna consolidate when all these assholes start failing
I think there's something to be said for novelty, though. Modern productions reflect the culture they were produced in, and that familiarity is one less barrier for an audience to overcome. If we have "all this shit" to wade through, something new seems, to me, like it could be "relevant", "fresh", or oh no the marketing is working