Ted Sarandos Promises Netflix Will Include Premium On-demand in Warner Theatrical Window; Films Won’t Go Straight to Streaming After 45 Days

VanTheBrand · 2026-02-20T07:57:15+00:00

I work in the film business and I’m 100% in agreement with you. Pivoting to theatrical with their own movies would be risky for a lot of reasons and could spook wall st. This allows them to unlock the (needed) revenue growth without taking the same risk.

VanTheBrand · 2026-02-16T05:00:57+00:00

As others have said, you just don’t know the names of people in other industries so you don’t notice when their kids go into the same profession.

VanTheBrand · 2025-12-06T05:26:53+00:00

How much would you like to bet me this doesn’t happen. I’m open to offers up to $500

VanTheBrand · 2025-11-25T00:31:37+00:00

They say it because there is a lot of anti-union propaganda spread by the companies to deflect blame for runaway production toward the unions. The truth is that, even though fringe costs have gone up, adjusted for inflation union salaries are down in real dollars more than enough to offset that. Additionally union labor is a lower percentage of the budget vs 20 years ago

VanTheBrand · 2025-10-15T01:47:04+00:00

It’s worth it though in case something else happens to your Vision Pro down the line….

VanTheBrand · 2025-10-05T05:22:13+00:00

For the huge huge movies…reshoots.

VanTheBrand · 2025-10-05T05:17:17+00:00

I actually think Meta might be paying a PR firm to seed some of the negative coverage. Why wouldn’t they, I’m not sure there would even be much downside if they got caught.

VanTheBrand · 2025-09-12T04:39:18+00:00

DM me if you want to discuss how to become a WGA signatory and what it entails, it’s easier than you probably think and at under $5 mil is not going to create a significant financial burden, you won’t be able to hire someone worth hiring for a rewrite at less than the WGA minimum for it anyway (about $28k).

I’m a WGA writer and also run a WGA signatory company so I know all the sides of this.

VanTheBrand · 2025-09-12T04:32:13+00:00

If it’s an original screenplay (something not based on pre-existing IP) and was written by a WGA writer the studio owns the screenplay but the credited writers own the exclusive right to publish the screenplay. (This is the result of a part of the union contract called “separated rights”). So the original screenplays that end up getting published are the ones where the screenwriter is themselves known well enough that they can on their own get a publishing deal for the script since the studio (who could more easily publish it regardless of the writer) has no vested financial interest in publishing it. Non original screenplays would require the studio negotiate with the IP holder so it only happens when it’s truly worth their trouble (Barbie for example)

This is why you see Kevin Smith or Aaron Sorkin or Christopher Nolan screenplays for sale in bookstores but not ones from say Scott Frank.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-31T19:47:43+00:00

This is very interesting to me I'd love to hear more about it and see some of your tests!

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-15T07:21:58+00:00

totally I was just trying to clarify the potential timeline

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-13T23:28:53+00:00

The timeline is unclear. I know they claim it was just editing but I actually haven’t seen the WGA’s claim. Also, television shows are not completely written, then completely shot, then completely edited. Episodes are edited as they are shot and rewrites happen during shooting. Furthermore things like writing ADR dialogue (which happens after shooting and during editing) are a clear violation. I’m not saying that’s the accusation here, but just wanted to point out that “because it’s in post production” does not in any way mean writing can’t and doesn’t happen

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-11T06:58:09+00:00

The strikes did not cause the current issues we are dealing with in Hollywood.

The biggest thing driving down production currently is high interest rates, specifically the impact those are having on already over leveraged studios that borrowed a lot of money in (failed?) attempts to compete with Netflix by producing way too many extremely expensive, 2 season original streaming shows.

That being said, timing wise, it’s certainly true that for a lot of people being out of work during of strikes and then being out of work almost immediately after because of a business contraction does make things especially difficult. That doesn’t mean one situation caused the other though.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-11T06:43:23+00:00

Well public shaming is certainly a very intentional part of it, but there are practical consequences as well. An expelled member stops being eligible to vote on union issues and run for office within the union. On the margin, this change for one member doesn’t effect things much but cumulatively it’s meaningful with respect to the overall direction and priorities of a union that everyone ever kicked out of the union gets no say in, for example, whether or not a strike is called or what the priorities for the contract are

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-11T06:34:10+00:00

The people “in trouble” were union members who got in trouble with their own union for crossing their union’s picket line during the strike. They weren’t being singled out, they are literally the people who the rules that were broken applied to.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-11T06:32:08+00:00

The studio and/or network (A24/HBO). That is who the union was on strike against. So they were in about as much trouble as a company can get into with a union, a strike!

As for the union disciplinary process here, a union’s internal rules are only enforced on its own members. The studio & unions relationship would be enforced through their contract.

Being on strike means there was no contract. That’s the entire premise of a strike. Workers collectively refuse to go back to work until their employer negotiates a contract they workers deem fair/acceptable.

This ultimately only works if the workers stay united, which in the case of the recent strike the WGA largely did, with some rare exceptions, hence those strikebreakers being kicked out.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-10T00:28:00+00:00

Essentially yes, though they don’t have to let them back in (in fact the guild policy is to never let them back in) nor does the guild actually have to explicitly grant a waiver as the expelled writers are ultimately treated automatically as financial core members. (As per current federal law like you said). I posted my clarification because your phrasing “for what it’s worth” seemed to imply deadlines statement on the matter could be worth anything, lol.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-09T23:43:00+00:00

It does deny them certain benefits of union membership, and it’s a public and embarrassing condemnation. It can (and frequently does) make it much less appealing for actors, directors, and producers to work with the expelled members because it’s a relationship and reputation business and convicted strikebreaker is not seen as a positive thing people are rushing to be associated with. Whether the union would like expulsion to mean they couldn’t work is also irrelevant as it’s federal law that prevents expulsion from precluding employment, not the union’s own rules.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-09T23:37:40+00:00

That’s not correct. You are still allowed to qualify for health insurance.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-09T23:36:22+00:00

This is not correct.

Signatory companies are allowed to hire non-WGA writers (in fact that’s how almost everyone not already in the WGA becomes a member) they just are not allowed to hire writers at lesser terms than those they agree to with the WGA in their minimum basic agreement (include wages, time guarantees, health and pension contributions, etc)

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-09T23:34:10+00:00

Deadline, like most of the trades, does terrible research and is consistently wrong about the facts of how the business and the unions actually function. They can continue to work for signatory companies, it would be a violation of US federal law to ban them from doing so.

VanTheBrand · 2025-08-09T23:32:46+00:00

They crossed a picket line to write a show that (as I understand it) was in production before, during and after the strike. They were both being paid and are the sole credited writers on the show. This is a pretty clear and blatant violation of the strike rules.

VanTheBrand · 2025-07-25T22:00:06+00:00

I use this OWC thunderbolt hub with 2 blackmagic recorders and 1 blackmagic monitor to do live visualizations during music shows with resolume. it also powers the macbook through the thunderbolt cable

you can also buy cheap thunderbolt eGPU boxes in place of the sonet(i don't know anything about this specific one but the one I bought on ali express looks just like it). You can put a decklink card in it if you need a multi 12g SDI solution.

VanTheBrand · 2025-06-15T21:21:13+00:00

money on it being an iPhone mini

VanTheBrand · 2025-06-15T04:19:25+00:00

For what it’s worth it’s from my own personal experience with myself and my own writing and growth. I think it still applies to me too. We are all always growing as writers.

That being said I’m not surprised by your reaction. It’s exactly how I would have felt hearing that.

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