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What moat do the film/tv media companies really have anymore. Distribution is no longer locked to cinema or cable. Obviously production costs are still something that requires a lot of investment. But smaller budget films have been proven to be very successful. Most tools are free these days.

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People act like movies and theaters are on the block but I've never had a harder time booking movies with the demand in my life than the last couple years. And everyone there is buying concessions. Trash is as piled up at the exit as its always been. The doom and gloom you see on reddit seems to be just that, on reddit.

Exactly and on the contrary look at what reddit did to amc, they basically revamped it with their meme-stock buying and now they are thriving again from what im seeing online as im not us-based.

But also our local cinemas are insanely crowded on the weekends and you cant book early enough to see the next MCU-blockbuster.

There's a lot of social network effects. That's why there's such a disparity between the average quality of a Netflix original and an Apple TV one.

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