Hollywood Breaks

Please welcome back one of our favorite guests, Marketing Expert Robin Geisen! We dive into the realities of today's Hollywood motivated by the conversations around Dave Chapelle's latest discourse, as well as the overall understanding of what creative expression might look like in the near future.

We're happy you can join us on Tim Thompson's birthday, no less, wohoo! This week, Tim Thompson and Keith Rauch tackle the changes that are happening over at Peacock and whether or not that bird is starting to lose its feathers. They also talked a little bit about Bond and its upcoming challenges as well as what's going on with Halloween Kills and all the fun and excitement that comes along with that.  

So sit back and enjoy the ride with this week's episode of Hollywood Breaks!

We welcome back Cameron Dillavou of Amazon Prime Video - a really smart marketing expert with a great understanding of what's going on on the marketplace. As a marketer, she gives us an insight of what streamers are actually doing with their content and why sometimes you cannot influence your chance of discovering new things. It's a great conversation!

This week we have a lot of fun with Creative Marketing Exec Jeremy Gershman, who we challenge to answer the question: is Hollywood making any progress at all? We talk about leadership changes that continue at Paramount, but also about the entertainment of the past versus the entertainment of the future (aka NFTs).

Dick Clark‘s partner leaves him on the dance floor. And Spielberg may be singing his swan song.

With all these '90s actors and films coming into the theatres, we're asking one big question: are we going back the right way, or is there actually a way forward?

Tim Thompson and Keith Rauch  discuss the amazing revolution taking place where NFTs are getting better numbers over the weekend than the film releases from Hollywood. Clearly another sign that the blockbuster era has finished and something new is coming.  We see this played over and over again, week after week. Specifically, this week we noticed that Top Gun is pushing their release date, again, for six more months, and Riot Games are onto something with Netflix executives.

This episode, Keith Rauch really dives into what's going on with the theatrical experience. CinemaCon was this week, there were a lot of folks that didn't show up, so we were wondering what's going on or... are the politics really playing themselves out? Daily Wire is coming out with a film soon, so there are new players in this business that are doing something different! That makes us  ask what that scorecard looks like, and can it be changed? Can we get outside of the Hollywood scene and go into sub-markets? We try to answer these questions and more in the newest episode of Hollywood Breaks.

It's been a year since Keith and Tim kicked this thing off and we're still going strong! 

Some of the story hasn't changed. We're still asking questions of what the theatrical release looks like, how success should really be counted, what the studios are thinking and how they're releasing these upcoming films.  "Free Guy" apparently was a big "hit",  but Keith doesn't agree with that, and everywhere, he says, with the way that the numbers look, it can't really make its money back on the theatrical side.  So we ask those questions, but also question the evolution of film in the theater, what it really takes to be successful and what does "PAW Patrol" really accomplish in a week like this that Hugh Jackman could not do with "Reminiscence".

If you don't know Andrew Rosen from PARQOR, you're missing out on one of our generation's greatest minds, thinking through the marketing needs, and how that strategy plays out from one big corporation to the other. He asked the same questions we asked: What's going on here? What's really missing? and what are they actually telling us? So this week on Hollywood Breaks we invite Andrew into this conversation and we're asking some of the big questions about Disney's Q3 earnings, how this talent economy is really working, and really, what do these numbers mean for our current deals and future deals?