Sean Fennessey

And then the lack of movies being made.

And in that interim time, a lot of movies going straight to streaming.

Now, one of the things I was thinking about this weekend as I was watching a movie on Netflix was this doesn't make sense.

The idea of putting a $100 million movie directly on Netflix, it never made sense to me.

I wrote about this as far back as like 2017 on The Ringer.

I never understood what this was all about.

TV, of course.

Netflix's desire to take over television completely and now YouTube, I fully understand it.

It's a great business model.

They've been killing it.

Their movie strategy for 12 years, I just don't, I have no idea what they're trying to do.

They're trying to win Oscars, but they're also trying to make $350 million movies.

And now more than ever, seeing what a movie like Backrooms can do,

And also seeing what a movie like Spider-Man Brand New Day is going to do.

That is the whole business model.

That's the only business model that makes sense.

And I think it's okay like for documentary.

It makes sense for stand-up comedy.

It makes sense for, I don't know, maybe like even an experimental kind of thing.

And of course for licensing old movies.