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Why the New Criterion Channel Streaming Service Won’t Be a
When WarnerMedia shuttered the basic and international movie streaming service FilmStruck 4 months in the past, it acknowledged that whereas the streaming service had a “loyal fanbase, it remains largely a niche service.” The Criterion Collection was almost half of FilmStruck’s full library in partnership with Turner Classic Movies. But whereas TCM’s library survives on TV and in WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service, The Criterion Collection was an unlucky casualty.
But on Monday, The Criterion Collection relaunched as an unbiased, standalone service, The Criterion Channel — and the corporate is simply fantastic with it being “niche.”
“As idealistic because it sounds, the enterprise is that if we actually do our …
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