"ChikFilA launching indoctrination vehicle for religious but mostly politically conservative causes"
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
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Chick-fil-A is owned by the Cathy family, whose independently managed trust was instrumental in the foundation of Trilith Studios — the Atlanta studio most well known for its frequent work for Marvel.
Translation, they're friendly with Perlmutter. Wish that bastard would just up and croak already. Bet you a shiny penny their "feel good" entertainment will have a load of Christian messaging peppered in (read, anti-lgbtq+). Fuck those homophobes and their stupid ass chicken.
Oh wow, this might steal the attention of the five people who watch Pure Flix /s
So, they are trying to speed run the failure of McDonald's experiment with Redbox. Instead of creating a massively successful brand that eventually gets bought up and run into the ground by Christian nutjobs, the Christian nutjobs are starting a video business to crater on their own.
Redbox wasn't a failure. It was actually quite profitable in its day. It just got outclassed by streaming, as did every physical media rental service. I don't know if Netflix even sends discs out anymore, if they do I'd bet money that it's severely less than what it once was.
Sept 29, 2023, the last DVD to go out was True Grit.
I looked it up cause I remember reading about it ending fairly recently.
I am completely out of the loop here but I already know someone important screwed up big time
Makes about as much as Netflix's current attempts to muscle in on the gaming market, Epic-style.
Why I continue to be surprised by corporate decision-making is beyond me.
Oh yeah totally, a media streaming company trying to stream different kinds of media is exactly the same as a fucking fast food restaurant getting into media streaming. Did you even read your own comment before hitting submit?
You emphasised the word exactly but op didn't say that. Did you read his comment before hitting submit?
LoL
Why I continue to be surprised by corporate decision-making is beyond me.
"THEY MAKE LINE GO UP WITH STUFF.
ME WANT MAKE STUFF MAKE LINE GO UP TOO.
ME MAKE SAME STUFF THEY DO. SPEND BILLIONS TO MAKE LINE GO UP 2%
WHY WE LOSE MONEY?!"
At least that halfway makes sense. Netflix on a laptop means games too.
Bigot Burger
Chick fil a doesn't do burgers. Unless it's the big T burger at Truet's...
Don't take it so literally. It's got good alliteration and rolls of the tongue.
Steaming Service. For steamed chicken.
Likely some C-suite person who feels like they are actually an innovator instead of yet another MBA with too much power. To prove it, they're going to start a service that no one will use at a company no one respects so that they can brag about their "greatness" to equally clueless investors.
Is it called Flick-fil-A?
They should hire you instead of whoever came up with the bonehead idea of starting a streaming service.
So it sounds like nobody in this thread looked at the actual article.
This isn't chic-fil-a. It's the homophobic bigoted billionaire asshole who has turned a town south of atlanta georgia to a 2.7 billion dollar movie making industry by building a movie making compound. He's trying to usurp hollywood. His studios have been the filming location for many major blockbuster movies in the past several years.
The article even mentions that the guy has sold 200 homes to the tune of 110 million dollars right by the studios so obviously he's diversifying beyond chicken.
If there's a market for christian shit i'm sure he'll capture it, but i'm sure they will focus on what sells. Maybe they will try to be the epic games of streaming services where they undercut the competition by hiring cheaper labor and taking a smaller cut from the people who pay to use the studios the guy owns.
Unlike steam, nobody loves netflix, disney, hbo or any of the awful streaming services there are now. Even crunchyroll which is a bargain has a fucking awful app and streaming quality issues. Since you don't "own" the movies on the platform you rent access to there's no lock-in or cult following like there is with steam. Because of all this... people will go to whoever provides the best service.
Sounds like they're trying to compete with Pureflix, which is already a Christian streaming service.
Seems you read an entirely different article...
Chick-fil-A is reportedly launching a
but that is apparently what Chick-fil-A (yes, the fast food chain) is planning to do.
Deadline reports that Chick-fil-A is
Chick-fil-A has yet to announce or publicly comment
All the article OP posted mentions, beyond saying Chick-fil-A is doing this, is:
But it feels important to bear in mind that Chick-fil-A is owned by the Cathy family, whose independently managed trust was instrumental in the foundation of Trilith Studios -- the Atlanta studio most well known for its frequent work for Marvel.
I'm not disputing what you've said about who's actually behind this; but to talk down to everyone here like that info was already given to them is rather shitty.
If there's a market for christian shit i'm sure he'll capture it
There is and he absolutely will. The market for "Christian" specific everything is huge. People that buy that sorta shit also generally don't know what a good product actually is so costs can be cut and noone's the wiser.
Nah Christian movies are almost always the direct-to-dvd type of junk that you find in a $3 bin somewhere. The only one I can even think to name is Sound of Freedom and that wasn't even so much Christian as it was right-wing fantasy. The studio that made it is a Christian studio, however.
Nah Christian movies are almost always the direct-to-dvd type of junk that you find in a $3 bin somewhere.
I would have thought the same thing a month ago. When I was looking for an opera, I stumbled on where I think this stuff is shoveled. Here's 35 christian movies shown in theaters likely near you in since May 2022.
Me: "what is Fat Home Vents..?"
Me, 5 seconds later: "ohhhhh"
See: Everything Kevin Sorbo has done since 1996.
I mean everyone else is... Why the hell not!
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