By Tom Grater International Film Reporter EXCLUSIVE: Back in June 2019, when Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman unveiled that their $1.7BN-backed streaming platform would launch on April 6, 2020, the world looked very different than it does today.
Flash forward 10 months and the planet is in the grips of a deadly pandemic that has infected one million people, with many countries on lockdown.
Safe to say, it’s probably not the celebratory atmosphere that Quibi’s head honchos were looking forward to. And yet, millions of people are stuck at home in isolation, and most of us are voraciously consuming entertainment.
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