Channing Tatum: streaming disruption creates a confused film pipeline

Channing Tatum said streaming platforms have disrupted Hollywood in ways that now make it harder to get original, high-quality films made, a shift he described as producing a "very confused pipeline of possibilities" during a recent interview while promoting his new movie Roofman. Speaking on the interview series, Tatum said the current incentives in the industry can push artists toward taking paid work on lesser projects instead of pursuing riskier, more ambitious films for audiences.

"I think, now, when you get asked to do a movie, or you're trying to get a movie made, it's a very confused pipeline of possibilities," Tatum said. "It really feels like, at times, that you're incentivized to make bad things to get paid, rather than make something really, really good, for the people that actually get to see these things and for the type of people that I want to see these movies." He added that he wants to support "good movies" and expressed optimism that the disruption brought by streamers will eventually yield positive change, saying the landscape "had to change. It had to morph."

Tatum's remarks expanded on a critique he has previously voiced about how streaming services have...