• TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
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    1 year ago

    Selling distribution seems like a decent move. Focus on production and sell to every other steamer.

    Selling the whole company is click bait. Even Apple (suggested in the article), doesn’t have the cash or desire to buy Disney outright. At best it would look like a merger and be mostly stock but it’d still be monumentally stupid for everyone.

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      Yep, production is where the money’s at. Paramount/Viacom figured this out long ago, with their CBS strategy of making cheap crappy shows with 25 episode seasons and then pawning them off on cable TV for syndication

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        I knew about Netflix but had no idea Hulu was profitable as well. I wonder what Comcast will do with their stake in Hulu then.

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          Hulu has kept away from a lot of prestige television. It will continue existing series and make new series based on established creators, but it doesn’t seem to go for the high spectacle that other streamers do. It also has long term deals to stream TV shows.

          I think Comcast is looking to sell its stake as long as it is a minority shareholder to Disney. However, it may want to keep Hulu around to ensure that Hulu’s content doesn’t get swallowed up by Disney+.

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            You know I felt the same way about Hulu too but my friend shared their subscription and I found a decent amount of shows I’d consider “prestige”.

            Atlanta

            The Bear

            What We Do in the Shadows

            Handmaids Tale (haven’t watched in a while)

            Only Murders in the Building

            Devs

            Dave

            11.22.63

            Legion

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              Maybe I’m wrong, but it looks like they could make a lot of their shows for cheap. The writing could be prestige level, but they may be able to control costs better.

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    The article mentions maybe selling to Apple. I hope not. Apple is already too big. Apple + Disney would be entirely too large a monopoly.

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      Apple TV is actually good especially for sci-fi. They’d probably make Star Wars not suck again

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      Apple would be a better custodian of Disney content than Disney themselves, at least.

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      I guess this is a weird one because I think apple runs it’s streaming service the best out of all of them. They seem to actually let creatives control the shows instead of strong-arming them with an army of producers. Plus, apple wouldn’t buy all of Disney, just part of the entertainment division.

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      I hope not, because having more players in the space is better than losing one, but it’s seeming like at the very least Disney will be stepping back.

      I think the best case scenario though is just for Disney to give the properties they bought from Fox Corp back to them.