The Pitch Meeting for Animaniacs – The Toast

2018-04-19T02:48:54+00:00May 27th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

The Pitch Meeting for Animaniacs – The Toast

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THE ANIMATOR: Animaniacs will not make sense to them now. It will make the world make sense to them later.

[Silence, but for EXEC #1’s barely-breathed ‘narf’]

THE ANIMATOR: In the past there were no divisions between children’s and adult entertainment. Everyone sat ’round the kerosene lamp reading The Leatherstocking Tales and everyone at the trading post made the same puns. But in our PG-13 age, who’s going to introduce your daughter to essential Americana, if not the Godpidgeon?

EXEC #2: I mean, maybe she doesn’t need to know about organized crime just yet?

THE ANIMATOR: Cultural literacy is an Always food, my friend.

EXEC #2: You’re saying that ten years from now, a young person will watch The Godfather or read Freud for the first time and realize that the Viennese shrink archetype in their »

Twilight of the Pizza Barons

2014-07-11T00:35:28+00:00July 11th, 2014|Tags: , , , , , |

“Believing more choices meant more chances for screwed-up orders, Monaghan insisted on a bare-bones menu: only small and large pizzas and Coke to drink. “We had to beg on our knees to get Diet Coke in,” says Harry Silverman, a former Domino’s chief financial officer.”

“Little Caesars grew slowly until the mid-1970s, when Ilitch started promoting two-for-one pizza deals. “Pizza! Pizza!” worked so well that he installed conveyor-belt ovens to keep pies coming.”

AMC/HBO/ETC, I have a TV show for you. It’s called Barons, it’s set in Detroit in the 70s and 80s, and instead of the standard one brooding man building an empire, it’s got TWO! That’s two times as many movie stars to leverage. Not to mention the obvious love from social media you’ll get from all the listicles going nuts over a tv drama that involves pizza.
I’ll »

HBO sticking with cable and satellite, won’t offer streaming service

2012-05-10T23:45:56+00:00May 10th, 2012|Tags: , , |

Kessler explained he thinks cord cutting is more of a temporary phenomenon that will go away when the economy improves, and that partnering with cable and satellite providers allows it to avoid transaction costs.

Let me get this straight. You have a rabid fan base who are pirating your hit show at record levels. Instead of figuring out how to engage that audience you’re going to wait for them to conform to your expectations because you want to avoid “transaction costs”? An intelligent person would recognize those “transaction costs” as a worthwhile investment to own your product from ship to stern.

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