“As we prepare to combine Paramount+ and Showtime later this month in the U.S., we are refining our content offering to deliver the best streaming experience for subscribers.

Similar to how Clue’s alternate endings accentuated the 1949 card game

How much to buy the rights to the Road Runner’s “Beep”? I only need one of them.

short term stock juicing, the WSJ crowd loves this shit

Sounds both like a poor idea and a very short sighted one at that, so it fits right in with everything else they’re doing.

This whole episode is going to end with Zazlav flying away on a billion dollar golden parachute while Disney announces a series of movies featuring their newly acquired Looney Tunes characters, isn’t it?

I still maintain that the filmmaker meeting was a waste of time if the expressions ‘walk into the Pacific’ and ‘rocks in your pockets’ weren’t spoken to Zaslav.

I'll give you $3.17 for the theme song to Freakazoid and that's my only offer!

Look, I just want the rights to The Michigan Rag and Batdance. 

love that cameron is legitimately an expert on this and also made a movie where arnold schwarzenegger says ‘chill out, dickwad’

That seems to line up; two instances of pivoting the character away from being defined by romantic relationships.

There was no problem, it was obvious what he was talking about and any Beatles fan who care about this knows about the third demo. Clickbait merchants from shithole sites sure liked to spin it, though.

Hmmm.

But he’s talking about the stage show, not the movie, which is, IMO, an entirely different thing. While I think some audience participation is to be expected given how it became the movie’s Thing™ (something O’Brien acknowledges and seems to welcome), going over-the-top at the stage show in the way O’Brien describes…

I’ve Set Designed ‘Rocky Horror’ 4-5 times over the years ( I like sneaking in SF movie references into the sets).

Please keep your hands off this one, Zaslav.  TCM is one of the rare remaining cable channels that still feels like it still has a unique identity, that isn’t the usual slop of original programming, reality/competition shows, and reruns.  

Back in the 80s, you had to find a dingy theater that would play Rocky Horror. Because the crowds would trash the theater. I feel like for at least the last few decades they have really reigned it the worst elements and made it “respectable”. Most places that do it around here don’t let you bring outside stuff and…

This change isn’t going to keep films produced by and for streaming services out of the competition, it’s just going to force them to play in a few more markets; if Netflix, Amazon, Apple, et al. want a film nominated, it won’t take too much more out of their budget to meet the requirements.

I haven’t been able to find anything about audience participation for the original Rocky Horror Show in London, so I don’t know if this ‘tradition’ only began with the film. When I saw it at the cinema I hated the whole business. I didn’t know anything about it, and it felt like a waste of money to not be able to hear…

I think when it started, the audience would shout some lines at the screen, and they were funny, but then then just kept adding less funny lines, just for the sake of having more things to shout.

To this day, I still think one of the biggest injustices to ever occur to video games was Alphadream making like 10 Mario & Luigi games and never doing a “Wario & Waluigi” spin-off.