The film & TV business is nothing. A relative blip.

Financially. Maybe even culturally. The real value is in controllers.

Each week we see the box office reports for movies and see discussion of budgets vs box office takings. We also see daily TV ratings and have some understanding of streaming viewership thanks to self-reported numbers and third-party measurement. And we know roughly what sort of money is being spent and earned across the screen industry.

There’s billions…