So, before we get started today, let me highlight two more events for this coming week for my book

Making Mary Poppins, both of which are in Southern California.

On Thursday, December 18th at 7 p.m., albeit the Burbank Public Library, which is officially

called the Buena Vista Branch, to talk about making Mary Poppins. The event is free and open to the

public, and then on Sunday, December 21st, I'll be at Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn in Griffith Park

from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. simply to talk to people and sign books, it'll be a very low-key, relaxed day, which is also

free and open to the public. While there, you can also explore Walt's Barn where he once kept

and worked on his backyard train. I'll leave links for both of these events in the show notes,

including a free link to

reserve a seat at the Burbank Library event. If you come to either of them,

make sure to come over and say hi and let me know that you're a listener here. I would

love to meet you. So about five years ago, as the pandemic began to change the world, I posted an

episode called Disney and the Future of Cinema.

When I discussed how COVID closures would likely accelerate changes I'd been following in the

marketplace for a while, most of which have now come to pass. The continuing rise of streaming

and home viewing, the closure or repurposing of some neighborhood

multiplexes, a much shorter exclusive theatrical window for major releases, the

increased reliance on tentpole films and franchises, and also a rise in subscription

costs for those streamers, so those streamers at minimum would be cost neutral or better yet turn a small profit.

And now at the end of 2025, it seems like a good time to revisit developments in the world of film and video

and talk about a new wave of changes and how those

things will likely affect Disney. A lot has changed since 2020 with ad-supported streaming and

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