Authors — Colin Brown
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The Great Acceleration
A question lingering after 2020 political disruptions—whether the year is one of true change or simply a pause before traditional policies and behaviors return—is one that has also been uppermost on Hollywood minds ever since the day WarnerMedia torpedoed their own theatrical business. The bombshell decision, announced on December 3, to release Warner Bros.’ entire 2021 slate day-and-date simultaneously in movie houses and on HBO Max has prompted all manner of obituaries for cinema as we have long known and loved it. Independent hits such as Moonlight, Parasite and Get Out that have relied on the slow-burning fuses of word-of-mouth, […]
by Colin Brown on Feb 10, 2021 -
Swimming With The Megalodons
When the media world’s most predatory shark realizes he’s about to be someone else’s lunch, you have to wonder whether we all might need a bigger boat. Only four years ago, Rupert Murdoch was circling the waters of Time Warner in the hope of hooking those prized assets and feeding them into his own 21st-century entertainment factory. Today, he is the one hocking most of the family jewels to the Walt Disney Company in a $71.3 billion deal that leaves his clan with a stripped-down entity focused on live news and sports, as well as a passive stake in a […]
by Colin Brown on Sep 17, 2018
