Brandon Baum

Yeah, insane.

And look, this dream is part one.

We spoke about the movies and TV shows.

That's part two.

I'm excited to continue leading this journey and redefining what the future of storytelling is going to look like.

I think it's no surprise to anyone.

Storytelling is in a weird spot right now.

We've got this influx of IP films and prequels, sequels, and whatnot.

And I don't want to hate on them because those are the films that consistently are pulling in the numbers in box office.

And that's why Hollywood keeps remaking

them and i don't want to i don't want to pretend that it's a hollywood's fault we should point fingers because ultimately hollywood are funding the things that consumers are going to watch and unfortunately for whatever reason audiences aren't showing up for original stories like they used to at least they're paying up the fourth remake of a star is born or the exactly

To me, the thing that feels really exciting is I think we've got an opportunity.

We've built this awesome audience online that love our scripted fictional worlds.

I guess my thought process is, well, if we can start kind of seeding these characters in these worlds and start telling these stories and building what will turn into these movies one day, all on digital, start building the characters and getting audience buy-in from a digital standpoint first, well, then at that point, if we can prove that, hey, look, we've got...

billions of people who have already seen these characters and worlds hopefully then at that point that gives us like the ammunition we need to go okay great we can now turn this into a feature film as an original story because we've already seeded these characters and worlds and got audiences excited about what we're creating over here which hopefully should translate to people coming back to box office for some new stories yeah

Me too.

And look, we're making a lot of guesses and we've got a lot of theories.

And ultimately, no one knows how this is going to pan out.

All I know is like...

It feels like the atmosphere is ripe for change and it feels like we're at the cusp of something needs to change one way or another.