The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast - S3E44: Is Show Biz Dead?

S3E44: Is Show Biz Dead?

10/22/24 • 67 min

If you’re a regular listener to this podcast – or, if you catch us regularly on our YouTube channel – and, by the way, we’ll never turn down a “like” there – you know that we’ve always got our finger on the movie and TV business’s pulse. Cos we always want to know. Is it alive? Is it dead? Is it dying? Between the pandemic and then the WGA and SAG strikes – on top of the financial impact of the streaming wars on everyone but Netflix and Disney – the movie and TV business in Los Angeles at least [...]

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