Barry Diller Thursday slammed burgeoning efforts by streaming services to supply films to their platforms, saying “the definition of movie is in such transition it doesn’t man anything anymore.“ He made the remarks to NPR on the sidelines of the Allen & Co.
mogul retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho.“These streaming services have been making something that they call ‘movies,’ ” he said. “They ain’t movies.
They are some weird algorithmic process that has created things that last 100 minutes or so,“ Diller told NPR.The onetime chief of Paramount and 20th Century Fox (now part of Disney), who later moved aggressively into the dotcom era with his holding company IAC/InterActive Corp., said he appreciates the key role played by streaming during
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