Sep 9, 2026 · 33 min · 10 segments
In this second part with producer Patrick Caligiuri aka Producer Patrick, the actress Ivana Milicevic dives deep behind the scenes into the major shifts rocking the film and streaming industry. From…
Patrick CaligiuriGuest
Ivana MilicevicHost
We left everyone on a cliffhanger that everyone wants to know about, and that is The strikes, both writer and actor strikes, because the DGA never strikes.

Do you think with this last strike specifically, maybe even the one in 2008 where we were like really worried about new media.

With this last strike, because that was really a battle for like AI and stuff, do you think All things considered, are we worse off or better off after that strike? In a lot of different – there's probably a few points to be made.

know, this is really kind of a – there's so many moving parts to an answer to this.

So it's not really to me about like picking a side and saying, well, this is a reason why something happened.

I think the strikes when the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA went into the strikes, they went in unknowing what the situation was.

Back in May 2022 was when Netflix finally made the announcement that changed the whole dynamic, which is like, we've plateaued on our subscriber growth.

And that was the beginning of the end, at least for where they started saying, oh, shit.

You know, we blew up this television model that worked great for about 70 years, and everybody was rushing so fast to get into streaming, especially during the pandemic, because all of a sudden you had all these people sitting at home, and they're watching television, right? And...

We left everyone on a cliffhanger that everyone wants to know about, and that is The strikes, both writer and actor strikes, because the DGA never strikes.

Do you think with this last strike specifically, maybe even the one in 2008 where we were like really worried about new media.

With this last strike, because that was really a battle for like AI and stuff, do you think All things considered, are we worse off or better off after that strike? In a lot of different – there's probably a few points to be made.

know, this is really kind of a – there's so many moving parts to an answer to this.

So it's not really to me about like picking a side and saying, well, this is a reason why something happened.

I think the strikes when the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA went into the strikes, they went in unknowing what the situation was.

Back in May 2022 was when Netflix finally made the announcement that changed the whole dynamic, which is like, we've plateaued on our subscriber growth.

And that was the beginning of the end, at least for where they started saying, oh, shit.

You know, we blew up this television model that worked great for about 70 years, and everybody was rushing so fast to get into streaming, especially during the pandemic, because all of a sudden you had all these people sitting at home, and they're watching television, right? And...
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