Jessica Ryan

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Piratical pioneer of experiences live on the Internet (circa 2013) // CEO Broadway Unlocked, your friendly theatre on the internet // Indefatigable advocate for arts

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The job for any studio is to create a great story and exploit it across as many channels as possible—theme parks, merchandise, games, movies, TV, TikTok, etc.

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The biggest startup opportunities often live in the grey. Bill Gurley calls it regulatory friction — rules built to protect incumbents, not consumers. Every industry has its version of the...

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The biggest startup opportunities often live in the grey. Bill Gurley calls it regulatory friction — rules built to protect incumbents, not consumers…Uber and Airbnb played in the grey — breaking laws around safety and licensing, but creating so much consumer love that regulation eventually bent to them. Now we’re seeing similar patterns in:

Recursive Publishing

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The Platforms Are Turning YouTube Into A Farm System For Audience Loops and Habitual Attention... BLUF: Netflix signed Salish and Jordan Matter (a YouTube-first family creator duo with 37M+… |...

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Digital technologies can be powerful instruments of growth in artsand culture, capable of catalysing innovation and widening creators’and consumers’ access to publicly funded cultural activities. Prepandemic reports, sectoral overviews and digital strategies fromcultural organisations often demonstrated significant optimismin this respect

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Oregon Shakes Restructures, Scales Back With Eye to Future

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Conversations with numerous Broadway producers have revealed consistent complaints: outside a few “mega-producers” with sufficient market power to negotiate independently, the League is functionally dominated by theatre owners.

The math supports this. Examining the League’s Board of Governors reveals multiple executives from Shubert (Chairman/CEO,... See more

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Skydance Pays $2 Million+ For Sci-Fi Short Story ‘Drift:’ Andy Muschietti To Direct Space Mission Hostage Movie After Wild Auction

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These proof of concept short stories have emerged as something akin to the dizzying deals made for spec scripts decades ago. This sale also marks 12:01 Films and Verve’s 25th short story overall on their current run… Several of the stories have been adapted and published as novels through a Simon & Schuster label called 1201 Books. The real proof of life for these short stories will be the success of the movies made from them. About four of them are moving close to production starts.

The report’s authors conclude by arguing that hybrid (in-person and online) programming must form a key factor in future accessibility improvements: the more routes that exist for engaging with arts and culture, the easier it is to engage with, and the more inclusive it can become.