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[Lunarorbit]

Andor does amazing on Disney

Disney: StReAmInG is DeAd

 

[diffusionx]

Good Riddanc. Streaming is destroying one of thd most important fundamentals of good film cinema which is "good pacing". All that forcefull padding out and forced filler from execs was killing the produced entertainments potential.

Great point. This needs to be discussed more. It's probably why everything is a show today instead of a movie. Every tv show has horrible pacing with at least one bottle episode or just pure filler. Every documentary on these services is 4 parts when it realistically could be done in 1-2.

 

[Spyxos]

Disney: "Streaming is dead."
Also Disney: "Here's $650 million for Andor."

Holy. Is this for both seasons or just one? You could make 2 Star Wars films from that. I noticed that it looks quite high quality, but I didn't expect anything like this.

 

[CoreyFlawless]

Streaming far from dead. Netflix and I guess prime is really the only ones you want at all times. The others when here and there, maybe 1 month in a year.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Netflix had a profit of 18 billion last year. So they are doing just fine.

Netflix howerver is not relying on a bunch of dead or declining franchises to bolster their offerings... what's disney+ doing really? Marvel, Star Wars, Disney live action movies, and the modern slop that they produce that can't compare to the heights they reached before. By far, the only thing they get to trend are occasional offerings on STAR like only murders in the building but that's a dime-dozen. Meanwhile Netflix and HBO keep pumping fresh, quality, trendy content. You wanna compete against HBO with the latest marvel movie? good luck.

 

[Bieren]

Let's be real. It's dead cause like 98% of the stuff being release is just bad.

 

[WoJ]

Everyone in this thread has already called out the problems with streaming so I won't rehash. I'll just say I've turned back to physical media where can for TV and movies, buying only what I want. I'm also making a plex server by ripping what we have. We will still have some streaming but I'm tired of shows I like moving all over.

 

[Tams]

VR

is for porn.

 

[Hudo]

The problem is not streaming itself, even though the fragmentation (everyone launching his own service and charging a lot of money for it) is certainly not helping. The problem is simply that Disney largely delivers mediocre to shitty content, which hurts its IP in the long term. They've successfully killed all the interest I had in Star Wars with their new movies (Episode 8 was especially bad). And I am frightened at what they're going to do to Tron: Ares...

 

[Big Chungus]

need more mature content

i wish we got something like that spawn animated series

 

[sono]

Dont see it

 

[TheMan]

Dead? Doubt it. But from my understanding most of them lose money or don't make a ton except for Netflix. So, reassessing the business model might be in order

 

[newtypepilot]

The problem isn't streaming. The issue is that Disney is wasting tons of money producing garbage to chase the non existent "modern audiences", while simultaneously alienating the diehard fanbase of its IPs.

 

[kunonabi]

Dead? Doubt it. But from my understanding most of them lose money or don't make a ton except for Netflix. So, reassessing the business model might be in order

Yeah, I never figured out how spending massive Hollywood budgets on a streaming show or film with fewer revenue streams was ever going to actually make money. Even if they were good and had solid viewership.