Sean Fennessey

But that period of time, that like eight or nine year period of time where huge movies would go direct to a streaming service.

We're going to look back on that as a complete oddity.

Like one of the strangest choices in the history of the business.

That's been a problem as well.

But we're more unforgiving of those movies when they go straight to streaming.

That's the thing is they immediately got kind of like tainted.

They were like, oh, that's a streaming movie.

That's not as special.

But anyone but you did that.

Chris talked about this last week and they put it in theaters and it made 300 million dollars.

Right.

So it's like you can change your perspective if you just put a movie in a movie theater and see it with a crowd on a big screen.

If you just put it on your TV, it's like it feels less than.

It really has never.

It doesn't mean that there haven't been successful Netflix movies.

There have been plenty of them.

It's just they don't feel as baked into the long-term culture because of the way that we receive them and because a lot of them just aren't very good.

And, you know, we see this year, Amazon is now putting all their movies in movie theaters and it's working.

You know, Project Hail Mary, we'll talk about the Sheep Detectives.

These movies are doing well.