All posts by Andy Marken

We’re a little over halfway through 2021 and surprise, the content industry not only survived the pandemic but in many ways is thriving because of it. We realize that a year a... More

Now we’re the first to tell you that we’re a knuckle-dragging on-prem person. We like our content, workflow and storage (especially the storage) around us … like to see it, t... More

Have you ever been suddenly awakened from a really, really bad dream? Yeah, that’s about what the Oscars felt like this year. There were a lot of great projects lying around t... More

It was a fantastic Lunar New Year for the content industry. Studios and theaters kissed and made up … sorta. Tentpole films and some of the great film festival projects have b... More

In 2007, the envelope-stuffing Netflix transformed itself into what is now the global streaming entertainment giant with 203 million-plus subscribers in 190-plus countries. At the ... More

We’ve finally booked our first vacation flight and the house we rent in Kauai for a couple of weeks of diving in “early” summer. Okay, so we were being optimistic and booked ... More

Everyone is doing their darndest to make sure that COVID-19 stays a 2020 issue. Children are back in school (50 percent of the time) and the goal this fall will be full time … ho... More

After all we talk about it, write about it, discuss it in painstaking detail, we failed our son. The “it” is obviously how he should watch his content to get the optimum entert... More

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, had an interesting idea for streaming services for the 128.5 million households in the U.S.: He proposed free streaming, which would keep people home, kee... More

A week or so ago we attended what has to be about our fifth movie screening (thanks to THR and the sponsors). We like them because we enjoy the Q&A with the directors, producers an... More

Our daughter surprised us before Christmas saying one of the things she would really like to be “surprised” with was a chess set. She got the idea for the “gotta have” gift... More

Do we have to say it? Christmas and now New Year’s didn’t panning out exactly as we envisioned last year. Even if our local IMAX had been open, there’s no way we would h... More

A month ago a friend sent me a screen grab from Back to the Future with Dr. Brown (Christopher Lloyd) sitting in the time-traveling DeLorean saying to Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox),... More

Tenet painfully clawed itself to maybe $80 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and perhaps $400 million globally while most major projects were slid into next year or worse, slippe... More

Well, we did it. We bought a 2021 calendar. We hardly used last year’s and if this year is going to suck like 2020, we can always recycle. Despite all the corporate blood-lett... More

Do we have to say it? Christmas and New Year’s didn’t panning out exactly as we envisioned last year. Not by a long shot! Even if our local IMAX had been open, there’s n... More

The M&E industry as well as what is acceptable and what is frowned upon is constantly evolving. We’re not certain if the changes are good/needed or we’ll simply become numb and... More

Okay, 2020’s been tough! Sure, we watched Outbreak and Contagion last year but no one really took this whole pandemic thing serious until mid-to-late March when Tom Hanks announc... More

Let’s see, the pandemic made us shut-ins. The fires (here in California) showed us what the apocalypse was going to look like with the red/orange clouds. Then, what the post l... More