Montana Smith
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Rocket Surgeon said:Mr Atoz! What's the count at?
435 movies and 73 TV seasons, plus a few music concerts and oddities.
Rocket Surgeon said:Mr Atoz! What's the count at?
Indy's brother said:Duck Soup is streaming on Netflix. I can't believe I'd never seen it! It hurt my brain to discover that the sublime comedy genius that is Groucho Marx has been absent from my life this long.
Montana Smith said:The Marx Brothers are a great source for quotes. Duck Soup is no exception:
Rufus T. Firefly: Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You better beat it - I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.
Joe Nocera said:They had good reason to celebrate. Netflix, since its streaming service debuted in 2007, has had its annual revenue grow sixfold, to $6.8 billion from $1.2 billion. More than 81 million subscribers pay Netflix $8 to $12 a month, and slowly but unmistakably these consumers are giving up cable for internet television: Over the last five years, cable has lost 6.7 million subscribers; more than a quarter of millennials (70 percent of whom use streaming services) report having never subscribed to cable in their lives. Those still paying for cable television were watching less of it. In 2015, for instance, television viewing time was down 3 percent; and 50 percent of that drop was directly attributable to Netflix, according to a study by MoffettNathanson, an investment firm that tracks the media business.
Joe Nocera said:At the moment, Netflix has a negative cash flow of almost $1 billion; it regularly needs to go to the debt market to replenish its coffers. Its $6.8 billion in revenue last year pales in comparison to the $28 billion or so at media giants like Time Warner and 21st Century Fox. And for all the original shows Netflix has underwritten, it remains dependent on the very networks that fear its potential to destroy their longtime business model in the way that internet competitors undermined the newspaper and music industries. Now that so many entertainment companies see it as an existential threat, the question is whether Netflix can continue to thrive in the new TV universe that it has brought into being.
Le Saboteur said:So, here we are some five(!) whole years since the last post. Has anybody dumped Netflix? I still have my original Hulu & Netflix (w/streaming & DVD) accounts. No cable finally. Well, for about two years now.
Currently at home:
The Scottish Movie (2015)
The Dirty Dozen
Mogambo
But perhaps more importantly, will Netflix (one of the few original dot com companies to survive) be around in another five years?
Harrison is no longer attached. It’s Colin Firth:Harrison Ford Is Returning to TV After 26-Year Absence in The Staircase Series
This went down the memory hole: Ford's first TV project since Young Indy? On an infrequent French docudrama.