We’ve been chronicling in GlobeSt. this 12 months an exponential development curve for movie manufacturing studios and soundstages.
In Hollywood, New York, Georgia and locations in between, big-ticket soundstage initiatives have been introduced on what looks as if a weekly foundation in response to the insatiable demand from streaming providers like Amazon and Netflix for brand new movie and TV content material.
Now comes information that Amazon has opened its first bodily movie show—The Culver Theater, within the California metropolis of the identical title—a month after asserting that it will spend $1B making movies earmarked for theatrical launch in actual film theaters.
It’s just one popcorn palace—previously named ArcLight Cinemas—and it’s throughout the road from The Culver Studios, the place Amazon’s streaming outfit occupies about 530K SF—in order that doesn’t characterize one other industry-disrupting transfer by the tech big, does it?
We had been getting ready to let you know tentatively that no, it doesn’t, when the US Postal Service delivered what seems to be the script for a brand new science-fiction movie that was addressed to Amazon at The Culver Studios however was despatched to the mistaken zip code.
The would-be sci-fi flick is entitled Vertical Disintegration. Right here’s the summary on the duvet sheet:
“The 12 months is 1890, and Sen. John Sherman is strolling throughout Pennsylvania Avenue on his option to introduce what would have develop into referred to as the Sherman Antitrust Act in Congress. As an alternative, Sherman will get run over by a runaway horse and carriage and thus America will get no safety from the vertical integration that creates monopolies.
Minimize to 1994. Capt. James T. Kirk makes an emergency touchdown of the starship Enterprise in a discipline outdoors of Bellevue, WA. Unbeknownst to Capt. Kirk, an alien stowaway is onboard.
The creature, an clever life type that communicates in C++ code, calls itself Be-Zos. “Take me to your chief,” Be-Zos says, pointing to a Seattle Occasions front-page story a couple of go to from Vice President Al Gore, who was on his option to Alaska to research a wierd anomaly within the ozone layer of the ambiance.
When he meets Gore, Be-Zos provides to provide the VP the hypertext code for the Web in change for what the alien calls “tax-free com-merce start-up” in a goofy however pleasant monosyllabic manner that instantly resonates with Gore.
Minimize to 2021. The corporate Be-Zos based, named after the most important river on Earth, has paralyzed the US logistics system by swallowing 400M SF of warehouses, which it must digest the billions and billions of {dollars} in retail that it consumes yearly by its voracious maw.
Standing astride the Web like a colossal multi-tentacled octopus, the unstoppable e-company retains rising new arms that crawl as much as unsuspecting industries and provide to “distr-ibute” their “con-tent” earlier than encasing the sufferer in a python-like grip as a body-snatching “digital transformation” begins…
Nah, there’s nothing to fret about right here. We’ve all seen this film earlier than, and it’s all make-believe, proper?
