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These have been hanging around my inbox for a while. First, Olen Steinhauer on a book he wrote and shelved in part because he was busy writing Berlin Station. Honestly, Mr. Steinhauer, I doubt anyone is paying quite that much attention to you. And then some news about the ownership of EPIX: Lionsgate is going to sell its piece out to concentrate on its relationship with (newly purchased) Starz. EPIX is described as “throwing off cash.”
The poor stepchild?
It’s interesting, though, about writing a potentially timely book that a short while later is no longer relevant.
I was at the movies today and saw “Hidden Figures” and I had this weird feeling of dislocation — the politics of the movie wouldn’t have seemed like anything special ten days ago but today I found myself wondering if that phase of US history is over.
Scary. Haven’t seen the movie yet but it sounds good.
warning: historical inaccuracies abound, details rearranged to make a more exciting story — but still very worthwhile.
[…] six weeks ago, I mentioned the news that Lionsgate wanted to sell its share of EPIX. Tonight comes the news that MGM is in talks to buy out all of EPIX, thus purchasing Viacom’s […]
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