You’ve seen the images of shipping freighters sitting outside of ports all around the United States.

In the next year or so, could imagine something like it for film releases?  The films some of you are seeing in the theater started filming years ago. It can take five years for a feature film to go from script to release.  

There’s coming an indeterminable period of time where theaters could sit empty while they wait for something to show.  Or maybe they will do the old dollar theater gig where they show old films while they sell overpriced popcorn—if they can find somewhere to buy popcorn.  Or paper cups for overpriced Coke products.  

True story. I stopped at a Buccees in Terrell, TX the other day and couldn’t find a single paper cup of any size to buy their delicious Buccees brand soda pop.  You heard it here first.  Last one to the toilet paper aisle is wiping with their sleeves.  

The pandemic has slowed production famously in Tinseltown so that there was already a coming production gap.  Now that film crews are talking about striking, that gap is going to lengthen.

All of this means that the industry is bleeding money.  

We have been telling you for a year now that it’s time for something different.  A new model for funding, streaming, and making better films.  

We’ve been talking about cancelling Hollywood.  

Kids, this is what we call “opportunity.”  If you are a venture capitalist it’s time to venture some capital.  

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