I'm sick of goddamned streaming services

Who gets credited as what is often determined by the contracts with unions like WGA and SAG-AFTRA. WGA’s already on strike, the other unions are voting. I think we know how they’re going to vote.

That looks like an infobox you see after you click on a title. Not official credits or contracts. Just a summary that tries to put relevant info before the curious viewer without overwhelming them with details. I don't see this as a big deal. I don't know. Maybe Scorsese fans only want to watch if he's a director and not a writer, or something.

It's an unforced error and, given there's an ongoing writers strike, a particularly stupid one especially considering that the info page was apparently sorted like it should be before the change from HBO Max.

They say they're fixing it.

Hollywood unions don’t fuck around with shit like this. Lucas, with the agreement of the actors involved, has paid huge fines because he wants a lot of the credits at the end of the movie, instead of the start. That goes against the union rules, even though the actors are like, “Yeah, sure, George, we don’t care.” And so George pays a big fine to the union in order to do it.

Credits haven't been at the beginning of movies since like 1950.

Nope. The reverse. In the 1950s, there weren’t any. Now, you get ones like the director and the top billed stars at the opening of a film.

To add to that, George Lucas was fined by the guilds for not having credits at the beginning of the Empire Strikes Back.

As to the subject of this thread, this reminds me of when cable first came in and people whined about "paid" T.V. Had cable not gotten so ridiculous with its pricing, people wouldn't have jumped at alternatives.

Here's the Full List of TV Shows Removed from Disney+ & Hulu

Disney Gets Big Write-Off After Pulling Its Streaming Shows

The CW is pivoting to Jesus

I wish I still watched, so I could stop.

Oh yeah that's right, Netflix did that thing. I used to pay the highest tier of Netflix to be able to stream on four devices because I had family members in three other households who watched on my account. With Netflix's recent greedy shenanigans, I had to kick them off. But each of them realized they only login to Netflix to find shows or movies that have long since been removed from Netflix, so they didn't actually pay for new accounts because they don't really need Netflix anymore. Also, I downgraded the plan I was signed up for. Great move losing $4 a month, Netflix.

Multiplied by how many times?

Spotify Might Finally Get HiFi Audio This Year—If You’re Willing to Pay a ‘Supremium’

Stitcher's getting killed:

https://stitcher.helpshift.com/hc/e...Sr8&utm_content=264120133&utm_source=hs_email

Spielberg and Scorsese May Have Just Saved TCM From Zaslav's Destructive Warpath

YouTube Threatens to Cut Off Ad Blocker Users After Just Three Ad-less Vids

They can eat all the dicks. All of them.

Spotify used branding of US Black cultural festival without permission, lawsuit says

Netflix Wants to Make Ads More Like TV Shows

Nah, I'll just go back to piracy.

That would explain Emily in Paris' continued run on that platform despite being the Velma of quirky sitcoms. There's a whole ass ton of high end product placement on that show and maybe that is a test run for this idea.

Worked on me. All I wear is La Perla now.

And then George tells the unions to go fuck themselves and drops his Hollywood union memberships so that he doesn't have to deal with such gestapo bullshit again on any of his subsequent movies.

And how many directors in Hollywood have Lucas’ clout that they can do shit like this?

Also, this is changing the film from the way the creatives and production team wants things in 99.999999% want them. This would be the equivalent of taking George’s movie, changing it from the way he wanted, and then fining him for the changes that they made.

Also, odds are, if it’s on a streaming service, the studio, not the director, is the one who holds control of if something is on the service or not. So, there’s fuck all a director can do about it. Just ask Christopher Nolan about that.

great... and then we'd finally get that Cara Dune movie.

Of course, it'd be produced by Ben Shapiro and directed by Kevin Sorbo... :/

Turner Classic Movies Airs Subtitles From Famed Pirate Film Archive

I was listening to a podcast where one of the guests was one of these "industry consultants" who also works for Bloomberg, and the fucker's living in the Stone Age. He said that what all the cable channels need to do is kill their streaming services for anyone who also doesn't have cable and lock non-cable streaming sites out of your current content until at least three years after it's canceled (or the initial release, if its a movie and not a TV series). Good luck with that, buddy. Oh, he also wanted to bring back "windowing" so that things would only be available in limited formats/services for limited amounts of time.