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[-] autotldr 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


IAC mogul Barry Diller thinks that the Hollywood studios need to “reorient” their businesses, and fast, or else face potential “catastrophic” consequences.

Now, thanks to the strikes, Diller told Swisher that he thinks next year, when the content pipeline dries up, the hit to subscriptions will be “kind of catastrophic” to every streaming service except for Netflix.

“Interestingly, two of those studios had perfectly good streaming services called HBO and Showtime,” he adds.

Instead, HBO is now a part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max service, while Showtime has been folded into Paramount’s Paramount+.

Last Month Diller made headlines when he said the top actors and executives should take a pay cut to try and help resolve the strike.

And he addressed the insider trading investigation over shares and options in Activision Blizzard, which Diller had acquired before the Microsoft acquisition was announced.


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