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The Future of GreenCine

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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greencinecap.pngI had heard about the sale of GreenCine a few weeks ago, but Scott Kirsner has a few new details on the future of the Netflix alternative/homebase of David Hudson’s much-beloved film blog. The gist: the new owners also operate Wanted List, which an employee cited by Kirsner describes as “the Netflix of porn.” But don’t fret––according to the same employee, this won’t affect GreenCine’s bent. “While they’re owned by the same people, they are two seperate companies. So far as one is concerned, the other doesn’t exist.” More info on all of that, and the possible future of GreenCine’s digital-download holdings, here.

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  • David Hudson said 1 year ago

    Thanks for that blush-inducing “much-beloved,” Karina.

    Just to preempt any speculation, the blog has been quiet in the past couple of days only because there’s a technical glitch that ought to be cleared up real soon now. Entries are stacking up, and the Daily’ll spring alive again shortly.

    I’ve chatted with the new owners via email and phone, of course (they’re in California, I’m in Berlin), and not only are they friendly and savvy as hell, they’re really on the ball. Honestly, this is a brisk, fresh wind in GC’s sails.

  • GreenCineCustomer said 1 year ago

    The thing is, GreenCine seems to want to keep this whole deal under wraps. Anytime people mention something about it on the GreenCine forums it goes away or the thread is locked.

    They really seem to want to do everything they can to discourage us from talking about the sale.

    Back in July there was speculation that they’d been bought by CBT Media Group, who also work with/own Wanted List. Nobody ever came out directly and said they were bought, but it was only mentioned that they’d had to give up part of the company. They always made it sound like they were merely contracting out the shipping. Now it comes out that, yeah, they really were bought out.