In the Streaming Age, Media Companies Blur the Line Between Film and TV
variety.comClaudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefOur issue this week aims to capture the altered state of the entertainment industry. As the biggest media companies have thrust themselves into the highly competitive direct-to-consumer business, it’s been fascinating to cover how they’ve realigned their operations and created new hierarchal structures around their new priorities.For more than a year we’ve been having internal discussions about how the once distinct line between film and television has essentially blurred as the exploitation of IP across platforms has trumped the traditional divisional divides at the media giants.As Joe Otterson’s cover story points out, “Where gilded properties like ‘Star Wars’ and the many characters of the Marvel universe.
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