Courtenay Valenti, president of Warner Bros. Pictures, and Laura Sher, co-general manager and executive vice president of TV operations for MGM and Epix, both acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruption in the world of content distribution and creation. However, both executives told TheWrap it’s hardly the first time Hollywood has had to adapt to change.
As part of a Power Women Summit panel titled “Exec Corner: Dealmakers, Deciders and Disruptors,” moderated by TheWrap’s Diane Haithman, the two industry veterans agreed that audiences consume movie and TV content on new platforms due to streaming, but not necessarily because of the pandemic.