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The star of “The Tender Bar” and “The Last Duel” gives great interviews, including this one with Josh Rottenberg. Ben Affleck is done worrying about what other people think.
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“Leibner, 82, the godfather of TV news agents, retired at the end of December after 58 years of representing many of the biggest names in the industry, including Diane Sawyer, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace and Norah O’Donnell.” Leibner, even if he had nothing to do with the deal,” writes Stephen Battaglio. “Every time a TV news star signs a multimillion-dollar contract, he or she might want to take a silent moment to thank. After turning journalists into TV stars and millionaires, Richard Leibner signs off. Analyst Julia Alexander smartly pointed out that this is just the latest deal by a major media company in the Japanese animation space, with Sony’s ownership of Funimation and Crunchyroll and Netflix’s deals with NAZ, Science SARU, MAPPA and Studio Mir. AMC Networks acquired “Made in Abyss” distributor Sentai and anime streamer HIDIVE ( Variety). On Sunday, comedian Bob Saget died at 65. Two film icons lost in one week: Sidney Poitier, dead at 94, and Peter Bogdanovich, at 82. January has been a cruel month, in terms of celebrity deaths. The upheaval brought on by streaming has cost traditional media companies in multiple ways, some that show up on a balance sheet, and some that don’t. The comparatively steep monthly fee, considered a disadvantage early on, could actually be a benefit for offsetting massive content spending.
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Nathanson estimates that Netflix’s free cash flow margin will shrink to 2% in its current fiscal year, though it should steadily rise in the future.Īt least HBO Max is charging $15 a month, which gives it a higher average revenue per-user (ARPU) than cheaper rivals. Increased spending by Netflix, which is expected to deploy $19 billion on content in 2022 (up 10% from the prior year), will continue to weigh on cash flow. The big expenditures put pressure on profits, even among those with the strongest subscriber numbers. “Whereas media companies before could only program around limited linear time slots during the day as well as their own studios’ release strategies, thanks to the unlimited, endless potential of content on streaming services, this level of spending should continue to ramp for any company that can afford to compete.” “The truth about content spending for media companies looking to make pivots is there is no real end in sight,” Nathanson wrote. He projects that the content spending of media companies will account for 50% to 70% of revenues in 2022. Discovery (assuming regulators approve the merger) will deploy $26.7 billion on content this year, including sports programming. Nathanson estimates the combined Warner Bros. The binge-and-burn nature of online viewing, coupled with the growing rivalries between the major streamers, is driving companies to spend even more on content.ĭisney has said it will spend $33 billion in fiscal 2022, an annual increase of $8 billion, as it tries to boost Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+.
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A hit series will debut with a big surge in viewership and quickly taper off. Keeping viewers’ attention means constantly putting out fresh shows and movies. One of the major points Nathanson offers is that it’s really, really expensive to stay competitive in streaming. Wall Street’s fixation on quarterly streaming subscriber numbers has come with “a distressing lack of focus on streaming economics,” Nathanson argues. That’s the main question media analyst Michael Nathanson of MoffettNathanson pondered in a recent in-depth research report on the state of streaming going into the new year. The better line of discussion is the one that some analysts have been getting at for a while: Are we sure streaming is a good business? CEO Bob Chapek, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Discovery boss David Zaslav in a corporate cage match for the streaming championship belt, the question of winners and losers may be the wrong one to ask. Yet as fun as it is to imagine Walt Disney Co.
