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For artistic storytelling, in a world of immediate access to much of the history of culture, we can no longer pretend that it’s not “all connected.” We might think of Marvel movies of adaptations of Marvel comics, which they are, but their also descendants of Paul Bunyun, and Quasimodo, and the Greek gods, and pick your popular mythology all the... See more

The legacy companies (Disney, NBCU, Paramount, WBD, Fox) are stuck in a purgatorial period between media systems, trying to wring out the massive but rapidly declining profits of the linear age while transitioning to the sports streaming era. It’s like that puzzle in Die Hard with a Vengeance where Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson must move exactly the... See more