Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast: Billy Ray, John Ptak & Marc Evans Discuss How Fear, Chasing Tentpoles And Netflix’s Volume Game Has Neutered Studio Quality Controls That Reaped Great Films
deadline.comIn the 26th episode of Deadline Strike Talk — which for below the liners signifies half a year without a paycheck that hasn’t come from Uber fares or waiting tables — host Billy Ray hits on a zeitgeist theme that gets voiced a lot by people who just feel that the business isn’t as remotely as exciting or near as much fun as it was before the folly that signatories put themselves into by chasing Netflix as it became the preeminent streamer.
The result has put just about every other streamer pursuit in a position of being money losers that have strained the economics, and accelerated the demise of those conglomerates’ traditional networks, and so many other things.
Ray begins by addressing the fear that informs so many moves in Hollywood, and is anathema to great creative work. Joining him are two Hollywood veterans, John Ptak and Marc Evans.
While they flourished in different areas, both were drawn to the business through sheer love of great films. Ptak worked as a theater manager and film programmer at UCLA, and found his way into agenting.
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