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List of DVD release dates for Oct. 27 and beyond
Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: OCTOBER 27: Frankenstein 27: She's Making a List 27: Sword of the Demon Hunter:
Hot Springs Renaissance Faire returns with Halloween thrills, medieval entertainment
The Hot Springs Renaissance Faire will coincide with Halloween this weekend at the Garland County Fairgrounds, 4831 Malvern Ave., featuring Halloween-themed entertainment, shopping, food and live performances.
Kenya: 20 Ebola contacts released from quarantine
Twenty people associated with Kenya’s first case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease have been reunited with their families after being released from quarantine following completion of the mandatory 21-day monitoring period.
Oct. 27 Home Entertainment Releases Include Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' on Disc, 'Dog Stars' and 'Lost Ones' Digitally
Home Entertainment titles arriving Oct. 27 include Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Ghost in the Cell and The 47 on disc, plus The Dog Stars and The Lost Ones digitally. The Criterion Collection will release Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-nominated 2025 film Frankenstein on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD disc Oct. 27. The Criterion edition will include both the … Continue reading "Oct. 27 Home Entertainment Releases Include Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ on Disc, ‘Dog Stars’ and ‘Lost Ones’ Digitally"
George Pickens finds the end zone in Week 7
George Pickens turned four receptions into 57 yards and a score as part of Dallas' Week 7 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
Opening Odds: Purdue (-7.5) vs. Penn State (+7.5)
The Purdue Boilermakers will make the trek east to State College, Pennsylvania, this weekend to take on a struggling Penn State Nittany Lions team. Both programs enter the matchup at 3-4 overall, but their conference records tell different stories. Purdue is 2-2 in Big Ten play, while Penn State is still searching for its first […]
Frager shines in Nebraska men's basketball exhibition win over Kansas State
GRAND ISLAND — It may have been an exhibition game, but a lot of buzz surrounded Nebraska and Kansas State’s matchup at the BigIron Events Center in Grand Island, Nebraska, Monday night. The voice of Husker men’s basketball, Kent Pavelka, announced pregame that he will be retiring after this season, and a student from each school called the game together to support the Greg Sharpe Sports Broadcasting Scholarship Fund. After acknowledging Pavelka’s announcement and Sharpe’s legacy, Nebraska fans watched the Huskers win 88-84 against the Wildcats in a game that included 80 3-point attempts and four lead changes. Sophomore forward Braden Frager led the way with 28 points and scored eight in the final five minutes of the first half to secure a 5-point Nebraska lead heading into halftime. He shot 9-for-19 from the field and tallied a team-high 10 rebounds as well.
Court dismisses claims against former UVA Health leaders in suit
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- A federal court has dismissed several claims against former UVA Health CEO Dr. K. Craig Kent and other former health system leaders in a lawsuit
Mamdani takes on role as cheerleader role for Gov. Hochul
The mayor has taken center stage in several ads and campaign events boosting the governor’s reelection bid.
Drag queen explores legal action over AI-generated Jennifer Balkcom political ad
The ad features an Asheville drag queen known as Nova, who says her likeness was used without her permission.
Block Announces Healthcare Initiatives, Calls Foulkes’ Claims False
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Palmetto Sports Daily: Reactions to Gamecocks upset, Clemson's loss to Virginia Tech
PSD looks ahead to another packed Friday night of high school football across the state and give their locks of the week heading into the weekend.
Alan Dysert of ‘All My Children’ fame dies
“My heart is broken as I share that my beloved husband, Alan, passed away on October 23, 2026,” his wife said.
Florida voters — almost 2.8M — surge past '22 midterm benchmark as early voting goes statewide
The first weekend of early voting being available in every Florida county pushed the number of votes cast for the Nov. 3 election towards 2.8 million, more than 20 percent of the turnout in the prior midterm election in 2022.
New Jersey Cannot Prescribe Better Health Without Making Healthy Food Accessible
By Assemblyman Kenyatta Stewart We tell people with diabetes to watch their blood sugar. We tell people with hypertension to reduce their sodium. We tell families to eat more fruits and vegetables to prevent chronic disease. But what happens when the food we recommend is beyond their budget or unavailable in their neighborhood? That is[...]
Secretary Kennedy Secures Commitments from More Than 250 Hospitals to Make Hospital Food Healthier
HHS announced that more than 250 hospitals nationwide have signed the Make Hospital Food Healthier Pledge
Davis joins Country Thunder headliners, festival announces full lineup
FLORENCE — A star-studded lineup of country music hitmakers will take the stage in Florence for one weekend in April as Country Thunder Arizona 2027 gets underway.
Sporting KC Weekly Schedule: Oct. 26
The penultimate week of the Major League Soccer regular season will see Sporting Kansas City in action twice with a mid-week road trip to the Twin Cities followed by the team's home finale this weekend. Sporting will first take on Minnesota United FC at 7:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday at
Lexington Mexican restaurant reopens after 2 weeks. Why health department shut it down
What it means when a red notice goes on a restaurant door.
African health experts urge immediate action over new Ebola cases
African health experts have called for an immediate and coordinated response from pan-African authorities after new cases of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus emerged in Kenya and Nigeria.
Secretary Kennedy Brings ‘Take Back Your Health Tour’ to Texas and Florida to Advance Prevention and Improve Patient Care
HHS Secretary Kennedy, Jr. brought his “Take Back Your Health Tour” to Texas & Florida last week to advance President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda
VIRAL VIDEO: League officials ask 3-year-old Florida soccer star, family to leave field, saying child ‘played too well’
A viral video with more than 4 million views posted over the weekend shows a 3-year-old soccer prodigy, Nevada, scoring goals against other children on his i9 Sports soccer team in Winter Park.
Cheerleading earns multiple bids to UCA Nationals
The North Allegheny cheerleading program turned in an impressive performance this past weekend at the UCA Ohio Regional, with multiple teams earning bids to the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship in Orlando, Florida. The Tigers’ JV Traditional, Varsity Traditional and Varsity Game Day teams all secured bids to the national championship, highlighting a successful… More »
Beloved KC LGBTQ+ sports bar and pub to close after five years in business
Gaels Public House and Sports announced in a Facebook post over the weekend it will close next month.
Recruiting expert picks Kentucky to land elite recruit Cherif Millogo
Cherif Millogo is now ranked as high as No. 8 overall in the 2027 class by ESPN.
We Built Trump’s Perfect Man Based Off His Own Description
Our spooky October “surprise” is a Franken-hunk built out of the men the president has gushed over.
Apple responds to reports of iPhone Duo's inner display cracking
Over the weekend, a handful of iPhone Duo users reported that their inner display had cracked along the hinge. In...
Is Rayquaza Broken? Delta Reign Set Preview
Our new set Delta Reign is getting some hype because of the crazy new engine based around Mega Rayquaza ex. This deck is clearly good, and it's already
As Halloweekend kicks off the holidays, the first thing a good party host should do is read this
(CNN) — Party-hosting vets and newbies, the high season is officially here: This Halloweekend kicks off the most wonderful time of the year, with many other holidays and festivities to
Ken Paxton’s State-Funded Jet-Setting Draws Campaign Scrutiny
Mr. Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate in Texas, has taken about 350 trips outside of the state since he was sworn in as attorney general.
📈 Monday data: The bottleneck isn’t intelligence
In the AI Investment Brief today: CapEx updates and lease commitment breakdowns Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark recently said in a speech at the IMF that the singularity has begun: For many years, researchers and science fiction authors have forecast a future in which AI systems drastically increase the pace of overall scientific and technical progress, making things move so quickly that it is hard for humans to keep up. They call this the singularity. I believe that this year we have gained convincing evidence that it has now begun. This follows Anthropic’s claim that in August, 26% of its AI R&D was led by Claude, with a human supervising its work. In October, OpenAI posted 719 math manuscripts1 made by its internal model. Math and coding are two fields where a research loop can close without leaving the desk. But can the loop close in the rest of science? Subscribe The loop is real The idea is not new. Mathematician Irving John Good, who had worked with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, argued that a machine smarter than us “could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind.” The Gödel machine, a self-improving computer that can rewrite its own code better than its prior, was first proposed in 2003. In 2025, researchers at Sakana AI and the University of British Columbia set out to show that this was possible. Their agents iteratively improved their own code through a feedback loop, resulting in gains of 30 pp on SWE-bench and more than 15 pp on Polyglot, testing coding skills beyond Python. The idea has since been tested in other labs. A Gemini-powered agent called AlphaEvolve found a faster matrix multiplication kernel used for training Gemini, speeding up the kernel by 23% and cutting Gemini’s training time by 1%. In China, MiniMax reported that its M2.7 model worked on improving its own agent’s harness, skills, sampling and memory. Over 100 rounds of rewriting led to a 30% gain, per its internal evaluations. In each case, what was being rewritten was not the model itself but everything around it. Is it better than human work? In September this year, in what seemed like a milestone, an AI-built agent proved as good at improving other AI agents as a human-built one. It did that in what appeared to be half the steps. But the result was inconclusive: the differences between runs were greater than the difference between the AI- and human-built agent results. Nonetheless, this is increasing the chatter around recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI. Google’s Sundar Pichai said that “you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development.” Sakana AI published a paper on RSI through multi-agent collaboration, finding that after two cycles its system scored 1.2–1.6x better per output token than the base model across four research benchmarks. Ramez Naam challenges that view. He splits AI self-improvement into five overlapping types. The first four describe how autonomous the AI is; so far, only types 1 and 2 have been observed. The fifth type describes accelerating returns, and he notes that greater autonomy doesn’t guarantee a takeoff scenario. Instead, each round of self-improvement would need to deliver at least as much as the last. The results from Sakana, AlphaEvolve and MiniMax above might look like type 3 or type 4 autonomy. But in each case, the AI wasn’t updating its own weights directly, only the ancillary parts — the harness, the memory. And where Claude leads its own R&D, for now a human still supervises.
THIS WEEK: “Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now” Bus Tour Hits Final Stretch With Stops in Colorado, California, and Arizona
Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ), Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera (D-CO), Fmr. Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia (D-CO), Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Rep. Randy Villegas (D-CA), Rep. Mike Levin...
ESPN names Wisconsin football fourth-biggest overachiever this season
Wisconsin Badgers football is exceeding expectations in 2026, and ESPN has taken notice.
Colorectal cancer cases in kids have risen sixfold over past 2 decades — researchers are racing to understand why
While rare, colorectal cancer is becoming more common in kids, teens and young adults, and the disease appears particularly aggressive in this age group.
Kennesaw State researcher explores virtual reality to improve student engagement in STEM
A Kennesaw State University researcher is exploring how virtual reality can help students stay focused and engaged during science and engineering laboratory activities. Supported by a $198,486 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the research aims to help learners maintain attention, improve motor skill, and enhance learning in immersive virtual laboratories. Sungchul Jung, an assistant professor of gaming in KSU's College of Computing and Software Engineering, is leading the two-year project.
Paralyzed from waist down as a child, patient walks across stage at high school graduation
A tumor on her lower spine paralyzed Elyse Wickenheiser from the waist down as a child. Through successful physical and occupational therapy, she was able to walk across the stage at graduation.
Sony backed Soneium plans native token as it expands into entertainment IP
Sony backed Soneium announces plans for a native token alongside new entertainment IP investment products, K-pop royalties and blockchain licensing tools.
Epic Games Boss Tim Sweeney Doubles Down on Valve Criticism, Says Steam's AI Content Disclosure Is a 'Political Act'
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney spent the weekend doubling down on his severe criticism of Valve, calling Steam’s AI content disclosure a “political act.”
2 Kentucky Wildcats make CBS Sports’ preseason top 101 College Basketball players list
Which Kentucky Wildcats received some love from CBS Sports ahead of the 2026-27 season?
Match Gallery: Hibernian v Celtic
Celtic came back along the M8 on Sunday with all three points after coming from behind to win 2-1 against Hibernian.The home side took an early lead from a quickly-taken free-kick but that was soon fo...
"Zero" signs that Kennedy is leaving post-midterms
President Trump is happy with Kennedy, and most of his agenda remains unfinished.
Georgia football rises in AP Poll rankings during bye week
Georgia Bulldogs rise in the latest AP Top 25 rankings despite being on a bye week this past weekend.
Wieden+Kennedy launches entertainment division to make movies and shows—with and without brands
W+K Entertainment will develop original projects, starting with a Bad Bunny film, and help clients break into Hollywood.
Sight & Sound\'s \'Joshua\' coming to movie theaters this weekend; here are showtimes
Following a yearslong tradition that puts Sight & Sound's theater productions on movie theater screens nationwide, "Joshua — Live!" will soon make its premiere.
Voters’ rising ire at corruption plays central role in Texas Senate race
The race between Ken Paxton (R) and James Talarico (D) has revolved around the issue that’s a top voter concern, just behind the economy.
Actuarial Science Club Meeting
We will be welcoming a guest speaker, Mackenzie Duckworth, who works at Milliman. Milliman is among the world's largest independent actuarial and consulting firms. It will be a wonderful opportunity
76ers veteran briefly raises alarm with injury scare vs. Pistons
The injury hits kept coming around the NBA on Sunday evening , but the Philadelphia 76ers seemingly avoided catastrophe with veteran guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. The veteran guard exited the game briefly , as per Adam Aaronson of The Philly Voice, with an apparent injury. While was initially tended to by team staff and accompanied back to the […] The post 76ers veteran briefly raises alarm with injury scare vs. Pistons appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Illustration shows "Cyberattack" text and PHP code
The word "Cyberattack" and PHP code are displayed on a screen in this illustration taken on October 22, 2026.
‘You Can See Everything’ becomes highest-grossing documentary at U.S. box office in 15 years
Nathan Fielder has broken the box office in just 2 weeks, as ‘You Can See Everything’ becomes the highest-grossing documentary in the U.S. in 15 years, while ‘Clayface’ opens with a solid start and ‘Wildwood’ bombs.
Kenny Gainwell productive in Week 7
Buccaneers RB Kenny Gainwell played well with bigger workload in Week 7
How Obama and Trump Made their Cases in Dueling Midterm Speeches
At rallies this weekend, Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump delivered two starkly contrasting pitches, differing in style and substance.
Trump invokes anti-Muslim rhetoric to attack El-Sayed at Port Huron rally
President Donald Trump has been telling crowds of supporters at rallies across the nation that they should vote in November as if he is on the ballot — a theme he invoked again in Michigan this weekend.
Chiefs vs. Seahawks live updates, inactives, where to watch: Kenneth Walker III faces Seattle for first time since Super Bowl MVP run
Absent Vinícius Jr. ‘laughs’ at Barcelona after Real Madrid victory
Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. has on Sunday evening taken to social media, to issue his response to his side’s victory over arch rivals Barcelona.José Mourinho’s troops made the trip to the Spo...
T.J. Hockenson finds end zone in Week 7 vs. Colts
Minnesota Vikings tight end T.J. Hockenson posted four receptions for 35 yards and a touchdown on five targets in Week 7
Kenilworth's David Brearley 2026 Homecoming Photo Album
KENILWORTH, NJ – The Homecoming Dance was held on Friday, Oct. 16, and students were filled with energy and excitement as they left for the annual occasion held at David Brearley.To preserve the...
Mobile County Health Department updates sentinel chicken test
It concerned testing for St. Louis encephalitis
Barcelona host Real Madrid in anticipated Clásico clash
2026-10-25T20:12:58ZThere have been a few crunching tackles on both sides in the last few minutes and now the benches have taken exception as there is a little coming together in the center of the par...
Halloween evolved as a Frankenstein of cultural celebrations
The holiday has origins in Celtic, Roman and Catholic festivals and feasts, and mixed with other traditions as it spread.
Elizabeth Holmes film puts up a fight against 'Clayface' at box office
A movie set in the world of Batman and a three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes went head-to-head at the box office this weekend, and it turned out to be a closer contest than expected.
Elizabeth Holmes film puts up a fight against 'Clayface' at box office
A movie set in the world of Batman and a three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes went head-to-head at the box office this weekend, and it turned out to be a closer contest than expected.
Three Premier League talking points
Michael Carrick was pushed to the brink of the sack by Manchester United's latest debacle on Sunday.AFP Sport looks at three talking points from the weekend's action: Walls closing in on Carrick Michael Carrick's future as Manchester United boss was already hanging by a thread before Bournemouth inflicted what is likely to be a brutal last act for the former England midfielder at Old Trafford.
Inside 26-year-old’s club for million-dollar Chattanooga business owners
At 2nd American Restaurant on Thursday night, around 85 entrepreneurs who have scaled their businesses to at least $1 million in annual revenue sat to a family-style meal of beef cheek roast, airline chicken and the restaurant's signature bowl of mashed potatoes.
‘You Can See Everything’ surges with $19.5M at box office; ‘Clayface’ takes No. 1
DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
'You Can See Everything' surges with $19.5M at box office; 'Clayface' takes No. 1
DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM
'You Can See Everything' surges with $19.5M at box office; 'Clayface' takes No. 1
DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday | KNSS Radio
'You Can See Everything' surges with $19.5M at box office; 'Clayface' takes No. 1
DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
'You Can See Everything' surges with $19.5M at box office; 'Clayface' takes No. 1
DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday | KMBZ
'You Can See Everything' surges with $19.5M at box office; 'Clayface' takes No. 1
DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
'You Can See Everything' surges with $19.5M at box office; 'Clayface' takes No. 1
DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the biggest success story in theaters remained A24’s...
'You Can See Everything' Surges With $19.5M at Box Office; 'Clayface' Takes No. 1
NEW YORK (AP) — DC Studios scored a modest, R-rated win with “Clayface,” landing a $24 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the biggest success story in theaters remained A24’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything,” which pulled in $19.5 million in its ...
'Tokens Are Cheap': Open Source Subreddit Bans AI
“AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community.”
Clayface Takes First Place While Holmes Documentary Grows in Week Two
Clayface opened with $24.5M, while A24's three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything grew 25% in its second weekend.
Sunday Puzzle: BRB
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and WUOT listener Jordan Bogdan of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
"It never was entertainment to us, ever. It was always something with a lot more importance and meaning." U2 reveal the unbroken promise that they made to one another as schoolboys in Ireland 50 years ago
"Music is not a matter of life and death, it’s something much more serious than that"
In Texas Senate Race, Talarico Leans Into Growing Rivalry With Elon Musk
On the trail, James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee, has increasingly gone after Mr. Musk, a critic of his who has given big to a group aligned with the Republican candidate, Ken Paxton.
What Chelsea Did Wrong vs Tottenham
After a stellar run following the international break, things came crashing down for Chelsea as they lost 2-0 to Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend. This marked an extremely rare defeat at Stamford Bridge to the Lilywhites, a crack in a strong record of home wins that has left fans reeling. In this, we will be …
Phillies news: Alec Bohm, Justin Crawford, Cal Ripken, Jr.
Why do I like one and not the other?
How to catch the hunter’s moon this weekend
An orange-colored full hunter’s moon will reach peak brightness early Monday morning along with a potential glimpse of Saturn.
Juventus is limiting one of their best players
Kerim Alajbegovic was expected to receive considerably more playing time following Kenan Yildiz’s injury, which is set to keep the attacker out of action until the end of 2026. However, things have ...
He left the CDC to fight RFK Jr. But was it better to fight from within?
Demetre Daskalakis, CDC’s top immunization official, resigned in 2025 to protest Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then became one of his loudest critics.
Bayern bosses offer differing assessments of Lennart Karl’s development
Bayern Munich honorary president and supervisory board member Uli Hoeneß has spoken strongly about Lennart Karl, insisting that the highly rated youngster is still far from being a superstar. In an i...
Cowboys Standout in Second Half in Win Over Colorado
Oklahoma State's defense stifled Deion Sanders’ Buffaloes while the offense exploded for 37 unanswered points, turning a halftime deficit into a dominant Homecoming rout at Boone Pickens Stadium.
Leafs’ Gavin McKenna Reveals True Thoughts On Connor McDavid
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers are facing one another in a Saturday evening showdown at Edmonton’s Rogers Place, marking the first time in the career of rookie forward Gavin McKenna that he’s facing Edmonton superstar captain Connor McDavid.McKenna, who has previously trained with McDavid over the summer, remains as much in awe of […] The post Leafs’ Gavin McKenna Reveals True Thoughts On Connor McDavid appeared first on HEAVY.
NA boys sweep Erie Challenge
North Allegheny traveled to Erie, PA to take part in the Erie Challenge over the weekend. The NA boys swept their schedule going 2-0 on the weekend while the girls went 0-3. Girls The NA girls dropped a 15-5 match against Germantown to get the tournament going. Margarita Tokareva had three goals while Sania Bedi and Vania Rathee each scored. Rathee… More »
Alabama Renaissance Faire celebrates its 40th year
FLORENCE — Alabama’s Renaissance Faire is celebrating its 40th year this weekend at “The Fountain on the Green,” which is also known as Wilson Park. The event features costumed performers
(BPRW) MedHaul Wins Prize in AI Health Innovation Competition
(Black PR Wire) Memphis, TN — MedHaul, a digital health company whose technology platform allows healthcare providers to easily and quickly match their patients with appropriate medical transportation, has won WellWithAll&rs...
Skip Bayless Has Bold Vikings Declaration After Bears Win
Skip Bayless doubled down on his belief that the Minnesota Vikings will win the NFC North despite the Chicago Bears’ recent victory, keeping the division race firmly in the spotlight. The outspoken sports commentator’s prediction signals that he remains confident in Minnesota’s chances as the NFC North contenders continue to battle for position. The Bears’ […] The post Skip Bayless Has Bold Vikings Declaration After Bears Win appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.
Giants should send Malik Nabers at Houston’s weakened middle
Houston will be without safeties Reed Blankenship and Jalen Pitre on Sunday. I’d make those absences part of the Giants‘ […]
Saturday Sports: North Country football, soccer and swimming over the weekend
Here’s a recap of your North Country sports this Saturday.
Four injured after car crashes into Hendersonville business, officers say
Four people were taken to a hospital after a car crashed into a business Saturday morning, police said.
‘Optimus Prime: Awakening’ review: Peter Cullen delivers an emotional performance | Texas A&M University-San Antonio
“Optimus Prime: Awakening” is a 12-minute short film that was screened alongside the 40th anniversary theatrical re-release of “The Transformers: The Movie.” Released in 1986 after the first two seasons of the animated series, “The Transformers: The Movie” returned to theaters in 2026 as part of Hasbro’s yearlong “Apology Tour.” The marketing campaign celebrated the...
In Senate run, Juliana Stratton touts progressive politics and a pragmatic record
Stratton has taken progressive policy positions, but has also touted a record of getting things done across a big, diverse state.
Netflix’s Leadership Shake Up…Explained
(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Well, I had a simple article planned for this week. Called “Whoa, I Missed It!”, I’d take a gander at a few important-but-under-the-radar stories I didn’t cover while I wrote about all things “Skydance. (Formerly known as “the saga of Netflix trying to buy Warner Bros., but not Discovery, then Paramount-Skydance bought all of Warner Bros. Discovery”.) Alas, that article will have to wait. Netflix made news. Ironically, my “Whoa, I Missed It!” article would have mostly been about “content” strategy decisions, which is also what today’s article is about. But instead of the entire industry, this article will only cover Netflix’s decision to upend their film and TV content teams. Just that! So that’s the full topic of the day. I’m going to tackle the issue in the opposite direction of the way “stuff” flows: uphill. We’ll start at film, then move onto TV, and then onto the CEOs themselves, and the strategy questions that still remain. But we start with the numbers driving this. Let’s dive in. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Netflix Upends Their Corporate Hierarchy I’ve got a lot of thoughts, but we’ll start with the most common response to yesterday’s article. Let’s Talk Stock Price More than one person, responding to what I published two days ago, pointed out that, well, actually, the thing driving Netflix’s actions is this: In short, stock price! Even if Netflix isn’t obsessed with their own share price—they probably are, but, for the record, my strategic advice to every CEO is to absolutely ignore stock prices, which will, ironically, probably help the stock price long-term—most everyone thinks they are. By the way, I prefer market capitalization to stock prices, because it’s a more apples-to-apples way to compare companies: But there’s an even better way to look at it, and it kinda casts some doubt on the entire push here: price-to-earnings. I have a long list of articles that I wish I had written, and chief among them is an article titled, “Am I Still a Netflix ‘Bear’?” meaning someone who thinks Netflix’s stock is overvalued. As of last summer, Netflix had solved their biggest problem—which for me (circa 2019) was the lack of free cash flow—but their stock was CRAZY overvalued. That’s this chart here: Why did Netflix’s stock price increase to a price-to-earnings ratio of 50 last summer? What financial metric changed so quickly? Nothing. Given that, historically, mature entertainment companies average 10 to 20, with 16 being the average, that increase made little sense. Netflix’s stock swoon these last eight or so months wasn’t irrational; the stock price rise last year was. So if you want a really hot Netflix take, here it is: Netflix’s stock price has been going down because the financial industry recovered its senses, not because of any strategic mistake. Yes, that would imply that cleaning house may have been a mistake. That’s why the charts yesterday are so important, because they show that Netflix did have a strategic problem (a lack of hits) and that’s what they moved to address. (One could also argue the industry drastically overrated Netflix’s growth prospects, but that’s a financial industry problem, not a Netflix strategy problem per se. Some growth estimates are just crazy. *cough* AI *cough*) Now, the last time Netflix’s stock price crashed—circa 2022—it gave them an opening. I’d argue Netflix insiders knew they needed to expand post-COVID-19 crisis, adding advertising, cracking down on password sharing, and dabbling in sports. But if they had done that when their stock price was high, it would give folks a reason to second guess their strategy. (Arguably, last year, when Netflix pursued the Warner Bros. merger, it gave the industry a chance to review their business.) Instead, after the 2022 fall, they had the opening to make strategic changes. We may see Netflix pivot again following this latest slide. For example, the “binge versus weekly” conversation is alive and well again. Same for expanding into theaters even more. And adding both linear channels and streaming bundles. And maybe more either social, user-generated, vertical, or creator content. But the first shift came with who is making the content calls. A Message from Our Sponsor Last winter Pulp Fiction was on Netflix. For those same 90 days, it was also free, with ads, on Pluto TV and the Roku Channel. That is not a glitch, and it is not rare. The title has run on 20 different US streaming services since 2019, across 80 separate windows, and for more than 600 of those days it sat on a paid subscription service and a free ad-supported one at the same time. Almost nobody can see this, because when a title leaves a service, the record that it was ever there tends to leave with it. Reelgood keeps that record, dated to the day rather than the month: 4MM+ movie, show and episode titles across 300+ services globally, with timestamped arrivals, departures and moves across SVOD, AVOD, TVOD and vMVPD. Licensing teams price against every prior window. Rights teams check what a licensee actually delivered, and when. Pick a title you think you know: data.reelgood.com/title-availability Film - Dan Lin Want to know why I don’t opine on individual film or TV executives, especially new hires? Dan Lin. As I always caution, it’s really, really, really tough to predict which executives will succeed in new roles and which won’t. The successful head of co-production/finance partner, Rideback, Lin was considered for the head of DC Studios job before taking the job as the head of Netflix. By all accounts at the time, this was a smart hire. (That’s my read of the news coverage anyways.) But now that Netflix has fired Dan Lin, we got a slew of news stories about how he was doing a terrible job. In sports media, Bryan Curtis, new Substack writer/podcaster from The Ringer, calls this the “now you tell us” story, when you only hear the bad news after a star athlete leaves a sports team. In this case, now they tell us that Dan Lin was bad with talent after he got kicked out the door. So was Dan Lin a flop? It’s actually tough to say. While film moves faster than TV, even two years isn’t really enough time to evaluate a person’s output. The new head hasn’t really taken control. As Emily Horgan noted, it takes much longer than two years to produce animated films, so yeah, it’s definitely too early to judge in that domain. As for live-action films, I just published an article by Brandon Katz called “Netflix’s Summer of Bummer”, but I’d point out Netflix had a bad summer two years ago too. Arguably, their best summer came from KPop Demon Hunters last year and Happy Gilmore 2, the latter of which I saw credited to Lin. Then, the stories came out that Dan Lin clashed with talent, both Ben Affleck and Greta Gerwig, classic “now they tell us” factoids to explain his firing. This may have been true, but also should have been expected given that he was given the mandate to bring budgets back in check, especially after Rebel Moon. So if he made folks upset, well, that’s what he was hired to do! But also, he was described as “well-liked” at his hiring! In that case, I’m a bit sympathetic to Lin, since he may have been undercut by senior leadership, as often happens. Basically, a CEO hires a subordinate to be their “bad cop” and keep budgets in check, but then when talent complains, the CEO ends up undercutting them. That’s how I think you end up with a Narnia movie as expensive as any of the other flops, along with a film executive the town no longer likes. As a result, I think that Netflix is now executing a classic “hire the opposite” move by hiring Peter Rice. This phrase comes from my experience following football and basketball coaching decisions, where teams generally hire the opposite of who they just had. If you have an offense-minded head coach, hire the defensive guy. Or in college football, if you have a strong recruiter, then you pivot to an “X’s and Os” type of guy. Or in pro basketball, if you have a very analytically minded coach, you hire the player-friendly guy. I see that here. After dropping Scott Stuber—arguably a talent-friendly executive with lax budget control—Netflix hired the business guy to keep costs in check. Now Netflix is pivoting back to Peter Rice and presumably a more talent-friendly regime. (Disney, by the way, has done this twice: hiring business guys to succeed talent-friendly Bob Iger. It didn’t work out last time.) When it comes to Peter Rice…we’ll see! Maybe he works out, but maybe he doesn’t. I’d actually say the biggest problem is that Netflix still hasn’t solved its “IP Problem”, in that they don’t own much IP, so they just have a lower hit rate. The new executive won’t solve that. (Though buying Lionsgate would help.) Share “Content” - Bela Bajaria I almost published yesterday’s article after this column, but ended up flipping the order, because it told the story so well. So if you want the data for why Netflix is looking at TV to fix their problems, it’s in that article, this graph in particular: I know I just wrote that it’s often hard to judge executives, but Bajaria ran TV for six years and film for three and a half more. That’s more than enough to judge hit rates, and Netflix needs more hits. That’s the story. Since 2023, Netflix hasn’t had as many hit shows as it used to, and many of its previous power house TV shows have ended their runs (Stranger Things most of all). Also, many shows from 2020 to 2022 probably pre-dated Bajaria’s tenure. (That said, one thing may have been outside of Bajaria’s control, which I explain below.) Let’s lump some content strategy thoughts about Netflix and TV into one place: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… Why I partially blame Squid Game for Netflix’s latest troubles… What is “the football trap”... Why it might not be the TV shows or films’ fault at all… What change I don’t think Netflix will make... How Bela Bajaria evolved Netflix’s TV strategy in smart ways… Whose departure likely submarined Bajaria’s final few years… One sneaky explanation for Netflix’s content struggles... And a whole lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support.
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