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Entertainment business intelligence: streaming economics, studio strategy, sports, box office, ads, and the numbers behind the narrative. AI Enabled Reports
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    Aug 28
    The streaming movie charts say renaissance, the studio financials say retreat Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount are running back to theaters while Netflix keeps originals streaming first One island in a rising sea Why in my substack
    The Original Film Illusion: Netflix's Unmatched Scale and Legacy Media's Theatrical Retreat
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    Spider Man: Brand New Day opened to $360M, 1.6x its $225M production budget. The Odyssey opened to $123.5M, half its $250M budget, then legged out to 4.57x domestic to become the highest grossing R rated film ever. The year's 2 biggest movies made their money in opposite ways,
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    Aug 31
    Just unlocked the full version of my Netflix deep dive. No paywall, everyone can read it now. The durable hit is dying and the median has been two weeks for five straight years. 269 weeks, 3,899 titles, all the receipts.
    Netflix Hits Are Burning Out Faster
    From backlotanalyst.substack.com
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    Aug 30
    Warner Bros wrote off Coyote vs Acme and sold it to Ketchup. It just opened to $15.5M, nearly double the $8M Disney's $110M original The Dog Stars took in. The movie WB shelved for a tax break just beat the $110M bet
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    Aug 30
    8.7% of Netflix Top 10 titles lasted 8+ weeks in 2021. By 2025 that was 2.5%. The median hit has been 2 weeks for five years. The durable hit is dying Full data drop on my substack backlotanalyst.substack.com/p/netflix-hits…