It’s been quite a month, with two of the biggest jobs in film shuffling — an indication in very different ways of corporate behemoths re-examining their film strategies. (In a sense, Netflix and Disney face opposite conundrums. For Disney the challenge is to make more films; for Netflix, the challenge is to make less.)
This doesn’t happen often at the entertainment Goliath, so when the ranks get jostled, it’s a rare acknowledgment of a shift in strategy at the implacable behemoth.
Specifically, the ankling of Sean Bailey (and this is a classic case of a murky exit in every way), is a public acknowledgment of what was obvious to the world, but it wasn’t clear that it was obvious to Disney: The Big IP, all-remakes-all-the-time strategy isn’t working — at least not like it used to, anyway.
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