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KumagawaUshio t1_iyayyu2 wrote

AMC owns 8 streaming services that's a lot to divide up their rather meagre catalogue.

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Severe_Cheesecake165 t1_iycwyt8 wrote

Yeah, AMC’s best bet would have been to be bought out as a prestige brand.

Unfortunately their handling of the walking dead directly clashes with a handful of really good content they produce. All the poor decisions with that show cancelled out any good reputation created by Breaking Bad, Madmen, Halt and Catch Fire, etc

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hacky_potter t1_iycz47z wrote

Why not license their shows out to other streamers? I’m sure it costs a lot of money to keep that streamer up and running.

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r-b-m t1_iyd3lpl wrote

As mentioned elsewhere, most of their popular series are owned by Sony, Lionsgate or partner companies like BBCA and Acorn. AMC doesn’t hold those rights to sell off. Of the series AMC does own outright, I believe only TWD and FTWD have existing licensing agreements (with Netflix and Hulu respectively). The majority of the remaining AMC-owned content could potentially be licensed off en masse if they decide to fold AMC+ entirely, but while that would lead to a short-term gain, it wouldn’t leave them with much of a runway for the future. AMC Studios isn’t really much of a production arm, and the development team attached is rather mediocre. That being said, the only way I can foresee AMC sustaining is through a merger with another media company that controls a streaming pipeline, since that clearly isn’t something AMC can be relied upon to handle themselves. My guess would be Comcast or Roku.

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