Posted on 09/09/2025 11:05:07 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
Big streaming is using sports to drive subscriptions. To the subscription sellers, all content is fungible. The streamers bought up most of the legacy studios not to increase production capacity to make more good movies; they wanted to control the catalogues of old movies to stock the shelves of a subscription based video library.
The great majority of films and shows do not feature nudity and sex. Enough do that we have no trouble finding examples — and I agree that it is inherently gratuitous — but most don’t, and most actors will go through their careers without stripping down. The young women are at the greatest risk here, but most actresses keep their clothes on. The problem, however, is that the industry has normalized and legitimated the ask, and when pervy people get into positions of power, they use it ruthlessly. And there are too many pervy people in positions of power. This is a problem with the studios, which usually turn a blind eye unless something blows up publicly.
I wonder how long the NFL will continue to protect local broadcast rights if Big Streaming, which is largely Big Tech, decides it wants that market as well. The big sports federations and leagues sold out to tv long ago. Football, basketball and MLB have even degraded their structure and rules for the benefit of tv. I don’t watch any more; the games have become a shabby shadow of what they used to be, because television wants lots of cheap scoring and interleague play. And it’s international. When France hosted the Olympics, the already grotesque entertainment spectacles that have infected the Olympics became a U.S. pop culture show. The French people should have rioted. But the IOC is like the other Big Sports operations; it does what tv tells it to do.
The FCC tried such a rule but the court struck it down. I will not be surprised to see an OFCOM-style rule imposed to stop Big Streaming to drive up subscriptions in Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 reform.
Boxing paid the price for elitism. The NHL Stanley Cup champion gave up the RSN for local broadcast television last season. Non-national games are on Channel 39 in Miami.
True. The streamers also now own most of the big studios -- or, in the case of Disney and the continuously morphing thing now known as Warner Bros. Discovery -- a studio turned itself into a streamer.
The streamers have compartmentalized the industry, turning what used to be a universally accessible (for most of us, since we mostly live in cities, suburbs or smaller cities and towns within reasonable proximity to a theater or cineplex) into something siloed. When movies had long theatrical windows, anyone within range of a theater could see it. Tv shows and movies that were picked up for broadcast were spread across different channels, but we could all turn the dial on our tv's. A big movie had a chance to become a cultural event, and good shows became common water cooler topics. Those days are past.
Apart from a handful of expensively promoted tentpoles, most movies get a short, minimally promoted theatrical release before going to streaming. Or they go straight to streaming, along with the tv series. Most of the potential viewing audience will not be in that silo. The streamers, of course, are always hoping that something will prompt new subscriptions, but they've destroyed the common culture of the viewing experience as well as any sense of urgency to see something timely. Audiences are now conditioned to wait for streaming, or wait two years for a now older film to get bundled for lease and start its long migration from platform to platform. The leads to out-of-sight, out-of-mind, and a lot of movies that formerly would have had a chance to find and audience and grow become hidden gems buried in the catalogue, found only by those who had some reason to go hunting for them.
The streamers have killed universal access, any sense of urgency, and the buzz that created excitement and interest in the product. Movies used to be events. Now they're something to be picked up whenever at an online library.
Years ago, I would chuckle a bit when “tough” women would punch and kick a bigger man and they’d go down. It was humorous and not a big deal. In the years since, it’s gotten to be the norm and it’s so laughable it’s stupid, and it drives me nuts. So much so I will stop watching a show or a movie if they pull that crap.
Unless you’re a behemoth of a woman, you won’t do any real damage to a man. You just won’t.
But they did not know they were brother and sister at that time !
She was just being an ass and kissing Luke to get her future ex jealous !
Later she and the future ex make a baby who tries to kill then all.
Sigh. Folks would have never loved the first movie if they had known all that.
That scene was deleted?
Killing universal access for elite access, and urgency indeed.
People care less about even the local weather and local community because streamers care only about their elitist shows. They don’t want you going out to watch your friends dance, the game, the community events, and the like.
Maybe Disney can ask the democrats how to lure white males back.
HA,HA,HA,HA,.........
In the VHS version for a while. George monkeyed with the trilogy a lot over the years.
In this instance it’s the urge to tinker. Many directors will say that a movie is never really finished, you just have to release it. George was deep in that school. Like when Star Wars was first released the crawl didn’t say Episode 4 A New Hope. It was just Star Wars. But then it made money so as it moved around (remember back then wide release was not the norm) and they had to make new prints he tinkered. And not just with the crawl. Only people in New York, Chicago and LA saw the TRUE original Star Wars. Though you can find it now in the dark corners of the internet. So then when plot of Empire and Return made scenes in Hope “odd” he tinkered some more. And then of course you get the new editions in the 90s. Honestly if he hadn’t sold them he’d probably still be tinkering right now.
Go woke go f yourself
The NFL makes good revenue from local broadcast syndication. Syndication revenue puts them on No. 3 next to the Sony game shows. And Sony is a partner with the NFL with “Good Morning Football Overtime,” which is produced by Sony Pictures Television and distributed by CBS Sports for any local broadcast station. So that’s a revenue source that helps the masses, and protects the anti-siphoning.
Controlling movies where “you own nothing” is a mission.
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