The Troubled Coexistence of Movie Theaters and Streaming

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Matt is joined by John Fithian, the CEO and president of the National Association of Theater Owners, to discuss the current state of the theater business, its messy relationship with movie studios, and what the next year looks like for moviegoing. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: John Fithian Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the summer. The weather is beautiful. What a perfect time to stay inside and look at our fantasy football rankings and sleepers at Fantasyfootball.com and check out our podcast with Danny Kelly, Craig Whirlbeck, and me, Danny Hyfitts, at the Ringer Fantasy Football Show on Spotify or wherever I get your podcasts. You know what that is.
0:25.8	An ice cold beer.
0:28.0	What's different?
0:31.1	It's Budweiser.
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0:42.0	Cheers to that.
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0:46.5	Please drink responsibly.
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0:49.3	UK.
0:51.4	It is Wednesday, August 31st. Today we're going to talk about the relationship between movie
0:58.3	theaters and streaming services. It's one of the more fascinating relationships in Hollywood
1:03.5	right now, and everything is up in the air. Everything is changing. Before the pandemic,
1:09.4	it was pretty clear what happened. Movies went to theaters.
1:12.6	Then three, four months later, they went to home video. They went to streaming services.
1:17.3	They went to HBO and pay TV and so on and so on. The pandemic changed all that.
1:22.2	The studios essentially broke down decades of exclusive movie windows and started doing
1:26.9	whatever they want on their
1:28.2	streaming services. The guy trying to prevent that, or at least forge a new normal with those
1:34.4	studios, is John Fithian. He is the president, CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners,
1:41.4	the chief lobbying group and representative of the theater organizations,
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