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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9064334" data-attributes="member: 2525">Paramount Streaming making money through their subsidiary Paramount+ and sending some of that money to Paramount Studios is not all the same. It's as "separate" a financial entity as Netflix sending that money to Paramount Studios. The dollars are counted exactly the same. It IS "additional income." It is not robbing peter to pay paul. That is not how separate financial entities under a larger umbrella (two up the chain in fact) work. You're too focused on similar names, but that doesn't make them the same thing.This is exactly as real money and direct money as Paramount Streaming paying Paramount Studios. You are making a false assumption that, because they're both named in part Paramount and two up the chain you eventually find Paramount Global that makes them "all the same" pot of money. It is definitely not. It is applicable here, and a larger streaming platform losing money is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to this topic. It's like saying "Samsung Washers are losing money therefore Samsung Cell phones are in trouble!" What point do you even think you're making by mentioning that the streaming platform in general is losing money? It doesn't relate to the success or failure of this movie or the dollars made in streaming from this movie.It's NOT PAYING THEMSELVES. Paramount+ is a subdivision of Paramount Streaming, not CBS or Comedy Central or Paramount Pictures or Viacom or any other entity under the larger Paramount Global.You used to be able to, but not nearly as often anymore since the pandemic changed viewing habits dramatically. This is a major factor in the Writers Strike, and threatened SAG/AFTRA strike right now. It's the source of our dispute - which is a legit dispute. Streaming monies are both 1) very meaningful to studios, and 2) much more secretive than box office data. It's a dispute people will have for the next decade in all likelihood because it's so secretive, unless these strikes cause a fixed published number to get attached to the back end streaming data.</blockquote>

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