> The streaming giant has surprised many in Hollywood by offering assurances that it would continue to allow Warner Bros films to enjoy wide cinematic releases.
“Wide” is not “long.” There’s a recent Netflix theatrical release that hit the cinema for just long enough to qualify for Oscar consideration and then was pulled to stream only.
They’ll put Warner Bros. in every theater in the country, to no fanfare (no marketing budget), and pull them as soon as the qualifying duration is up.
I responded to a similar question in more detail from a sibling comment, so I won't repeat it all here, but to briefly summarize: yes, I think he was a great leader, but it's hard for me to tell whether it had much to do with that capability specifically. I certainly don't think it's a requirement for a great leader, but I also think it probably helped at least a little, even if it just ended up being a minor convenience for him and one of many small signals that helped convey that he genuinely cared about trying to do his job well.
This is the right take. He is obviously a pioneer and much more knowledgeable than Wang in the field, but if you don't have the product mind to serve company's business interest in short term and long term capacity anymore, you may as well stay in academia and be your own research director, let alone a chief executive in one of the largest public companies
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