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to be enticed into the theater and sign up for more services. Names that help put seats in theater and home seats were sidelined from hyping their films/shows so suddenly “gotta see that” becomes “yeah maybe” attendance, subscriptions slipped no matter what their publicists say. So, what’s keeping them afloat? Sure, the bosses love to tell Wall Street and stockholders what a great job they’re doing saving/growing their organizations and that they really deserve those eight/nine figure salaries. But “everyone” really knows that their really creative folks are in their accounting departments. Paramount laid off 25 percent of domestic staff, Disney eliminated 7-10K positions and is trying to figure out what to do with properties that won’t fit into tomorrow’s plans, WBD had a revolving door of executives/staff during their “reorganization.” Actually, no studio or streamer escaped without some bloodletting. Through it all CFOs showed how creative they were at making their bosses look good to Wall Street by showing how wildly profitable their films/shows were, how much they had saved by “retiring” projects early and how promising tomorrow was going to be. Still… We’re at a point in the industry’s history where we need to restart