Reeves Weideman
speaker
249 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 Feb
Reeves Weideman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And it was a different sort of model where, you know, these companies would say, yes, here's a $100, $125 million budget project.
And rather than Skydance needing to make a movie that then did really well at the box office for them to make any money, the streaming service would just say, we'll cover the budget.
And here's $10, $20, $25 million that you get no matter how good the movie is, no matter how many people watch it.
And so over a series of years, Skydance produced a number of movies with huge movie stars.
Most of them are not very good.
Some are quite bad.
And I'm guessing that most people listening to this podcast wouldn't have even heard of a lot of them.
And it certainly has brought into question whether he has the taste, has the chops to make great movies, which at the end of the day, when you're running a movie studio, that's the thing you have to do above all else.
So David had talked early on in his career in Hollywood about wanting to own a movie studio one day.
And so this was kind of an ambition of his and kind of one of these things that, you know, he had been dreaming of doing one day.
Paramount had struggled among kind of the major Hollywood studios.
There had been a lot of mismanagement.
It had a ton of debt.
And so David was able to kind of swoop in.
And in some ways...
do something that, you know, any kid who loves to make movies, who has the money to buy a movie studio would want to do.
There's another side of it, which is a lot of people have sort of, you know, looked at Skydance, looked at the business and what we know about the business and the changing economics in Hollywood and wondered if almost buying Paramount was sort of existential for Skydance.
The company, as we talked about, had made these streaming movies.
They were getting paid handsomely for it.
But not all those movies were working and the streaming services were cutting back on their budgets.
Showing 101–120 of 249 · page 6 of 13
← Previous
Next →