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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Netflix’s Password Crackdown and Their Struggle to Make Movies People Care About

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Matt leads off with the bizarre news of movie theater chain AMC buying stock in a gold mine, as well as Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2021 pay package totaling over $240 million. Then, senior strategy analyst Julia Alexander joins the show to discuss Netflix beginning to curtail the ability to share a password with multiple users, and whether or not a streaming service like Netflix can produce a lasting movie franchise. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Julia Alexander Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

For as long as I've known the NBA, it's been a Stars League.

0:03.8

But even among the Stars, there's an exclusive club.

0:07.8

Russell and Dr. Jay, Jordan, Kobe.

0:11.3

They're all part of a select group that paved the way for the NBA superstar of today.

0:16.9

And some even shared secrets with each other along the way.

0:21.4

From Spotify and the Ringer podcast network, I'm Jackie McMullen.

0:25.7

And this is the icons club.

0:31.6

Hello, welcome to the town.

0:33.3

I'm Matt Bellany.

0:34.1

I'm a founding partner of a media company called Puck,

0:36.3

and I cover the inside conversation in Hollywood. I write a newsletter called What I'm Matt Bellany. I'm a founding partner of a media company called Puck, and I cover the inside conversation

0:38.0

in Hollywood.

0:38.9

I write a newsletter called What I'm Hearing.

0:41.3

This podcast is the extension of that newsletter.

0:44.3

Today, we're going to dive deep into Netflix, everybody's favorite topic.

0:47.9

Netflix is exploring, eliminating, or at least curtailing password sharing.

0:53.0

So you're probably going to have an awkward conversation with your college roommate or your

0:57.9

ex-girlfriend or that mom at your kid's soccer game who just asked for that one little thing.

1:03.7

Password sharing may be coming to an end.

1:05.6

We're going to get into that with Julia Alexander, who's a senior media analyst at Parrot Analytics.

1:10.5

She is very smart about

1:11.8

all things streaming and has some great perspective. We'll also talk a little bit about whether

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