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The heat is on: COP26’s final hours

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Is It Star Wars or Star Wars?

Star system was designed to derisk the business of making a move. Now studios are using intellectual property more as a way of d risking their movies than star power. Netflicks, and particularly netflicks, are taking a slightly different approachto it's not that they're gambling huge amounts on a handful of projects in the days when it was all about box office grosses. Instead, commissions loads of stuff. Is a kind of scatter gun approach to content commissioning. And lets its algaritm decide, letting its consumers decide, by the algorithm, what's going to be a hit.

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