Stuck In Development

"What? Another SID episode where the title is an English saying Eitan gets wrong? Typical..." The boys kick off the episode by blasting into Eitan's review and thoughts about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Marvel's latest try to regain their magic. After that, they check on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike and finish by looking forward to a potential box-office record-b...

Carl & Eitan discuss a number of developing stories with familiar and favorite themes: executive shakeups, theme park disasters, MoviePass and impending strikes!

If a major streaming service changes its name, but nothing really changes (apart from adding "not high quality" content), does it make a sound? That's what HBO Max announced this week, and Carl and Eitan break it all down. After that, they check in with Netflix's weird week, where they announced they are (finally?) shutting down their DVD delivery/rental services, and had a night...

Carl & Eitan keep saying this, but... theaters are back! You know theaters are back when projects like The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Air, and How to Blow Up a Pipeline are filling seats at cinemas. Streaming, on the other hand, isn't the hot market it (somehow) once was. In this week's main topic, the boys dive into the hopes Warner Bros. Discovery is pinning on their "" Max&q...

$17B, $10B, $1B. There are the three numbers that drive today's episode. One is an acquisition, one represents a future investment, and the third one is a yearly goal. Who signed up for each one? What do they represent? Are they a good idea? Join us and find out!

Carl and Eitan discuss the (ongoing) implosion of the DC and Marvel franchises. In better news, Eitan had a great time seeing John Wick 4 !

This week's episode is a combination of dreams becoming a reality, and apps being dumb. Not very related, but Carl and Eitan do their best. First, they talk about how Eitan's childhood hope/joke that his bachelor party would be a weekend in Disney World with his friends is becoming a reality. As part of this, he shares all that goes into planning something like this, including getting all the frie...

In part 2 of his 4th SID appearance, Kevin Sachs returns to debrief the Oscars. Carl, fresh from his move to Texas, reviews last week's "Snub Brackets". Carl also gives out The 2022 Goldfinch Award For The Wide-Release Film From An Established Director That Was Widely Reviled Or Ignored But I Also Loved!

Pre-Oscar episodes are one of SID's yearly traditions. This year also marked a milestone with the first episode without one of the boys, as Carl is moving to Austin! If they were ever going to miss an episode, it had to be for a great reason. This is as positive as it gets! Filling in for Carl, but also filling in his newly appointed role as 'contemporary Holywood historian', is friend of the pod...

Eitan joins Carl in SID's West Coast recording studio (Carl's bedroom) to discuss a very slows news week. Topics include Angela Basset Doing The Thing, first QuANTuMANia reactions (public reactions, not ours), Alamo Drafthouse subscription pricing, and The Last of Us.

Price Discrimination is expanding into new frontiers!! From AMC's seat-based pricing, Netflix'ss push to block password sharing, Twitter Blue, and the newly announced Meta Verified (announced a couple of days after we recorded), the media and entertainment business is taking another round at using the good ol' concept to organize customer offerings based on willingness to pay. In this episode, Eit...

2023 is up and running. Layoffs, antitrust, and even already a correct prediction by one of the hosts! After catching up on some of the latest musings, Carl and Eitan go through the Oscar nominations they found surprising (for either positive or negative reasons). 

Carl & Eitan place their bets on the trends & developments that will shape media & technology in 2023. They have a wide-ranging discussion from *sigh* 3 different Disney-adjacent predictions to Netflix to Apple's expected entry into VR.  Spoiler: One of Eitan's predictions already came true!

It's 2023! This means it's time to look back at our predictions for 2022 and try to find ways to prove them right. Eitan and Carl go through each other's predictions and share why things panned out the way they did. After that, they shared some of their favorite highlights of the past year in the world of media and entertainment. Come listen and help us decide if 2022 was a good year. Note: Eitan'...

In classic Stuck in Development fashion, Carl & Eitan spend their first episode of 2023 catching up with each other about their favorite books & films they devoured during the holidays. Discussed are the novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence as well as films Glass Onion, Avatar: The Way of Water and Wendell & Wild.

After a thrilling 10-minute discussion about credit card benefits, Carl & Eitan visit dramatic new developments in some pet interest areas: Twitter! weird fiscal decisions by HBO! Star Wars development hell! Apple-targeting antitrust regulations! Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio ! Avatar! Roger Deakins!

An episode with a check-in on the tech world, movie reviews, box-office analysis, and bold Netflix-related predictions? This is a prototypical SID episode. After Eitan shares some exciting personal news the boys go through the now usual Twitter Twitter, the still baffling decision by Netflix to release Glass Onion for only a week, the reaction to Disney's Strange World, and a quick WAA of Bones an...

Eitan & Carl discuss the implosions of Twitter & Harry Potter before touching on the impending World Cup. They also check in with each other on a host of recent films: Bardo, Armageddon Time, The Banshees of Inisherin and Black Panther. Most importantly…… Star Wars might be good now? Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @stuckindevpod

Drama at the House of Mouse! Chapek out, Iger in. Out with new, in with the old-that-is-also-new. As if Carl and Eitan didn't already love Disney's executive history, they can finally react live to this market-shaking moment. In this emergency episode, they explore what might have led to this move, how Chapek's time will be remembered, and what is likely to be at the top of Iger's to-do list. Join...

What a week. Carl and Eitan are confused. Box Office? Confusing. Everything happening at Twitter? Confusing. Netflix's ad-tier having a super bumpy roll out? Very confusing. Join the boys in this episode as they try to make sense of this topics and more!

It’s not a surprise that Carl & Eitan have lots of thoughts on Elon’s Twitter acquisition & Meta’s stock collapse. It *is* a bit of a shock that they have… 20 minutes worth of thoughts on Pantone color licensing. They also briefly discuss new DC CEOs James Gunn (!!) and Peter Safran. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @stuckindevpod

Join Eitan and Carls for Stuck in Development's 100th episode!! (*insert celebratory music here*) The boys start this special episode by going through the WAAW segment for Triangle of Sadness, Ticket to Paradise, and Decision to Leave before checking in on the latest news in a galaxy far, far away. Then, they spend the rest of the time looking back at their journey through the last 99 episodes, sh...

Lydia Tár, BTS, Kanye West – everyone’s getting CANCELED! As promised last week, Carl & Eitan make a promised transition away from film criticism and into business strategy, but not before spending a few minutes in TÁR Corner. They discuss the government-mandated breakup of K-pop giant BTS, and they spend the majority of the episode digging into the twin horrors of a Ye-owned Parler and an Elo...

After a mini fall break, Carl and Eitan are back in full swing. They start by catching up on their reverse reviews for Avatar and Don't Worry Darling, before going through their now ongoing segment "Flight movies: the ones you love to hate". In this instance, they go through Jurassic World Dominion, Lightyear, and Thor: Love and Thunder. After that, they share their disbelief at yet another Netfli...

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