Jennifer Storms talks partnering with Universal on key projects like "Wicked"
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00:00Symphony is a superpower, but I do believe the one sort of superpower that we have just foundationally as a company now because you and I both sit under Donna Langley is the fact that we have a content strategy that will allow our strong IP and franchises to live longer and be more in the presence of consumers because of the fact that it started with you and your team, went into the sort of PVOD and home entertainment, and now it's sitting with us on Peacock.
00:26So we're going to get back through the infinity loop and be able to sort of showcase that.
00:30Just for context, we had 882 million minutes watched of Peacock.
00:34It's the highest pay-win film for Wicked.
00:37So we are then providing a bit of that renewed launch pad as Wicked for Good trailer comes along, and then we're going to continue the sort of flywheel back over.
00:47Symphony is our secret sauce.
00:49It is our belief that we are better together as a company.
00:52But the most important thing that we do is we built a culture of collaboration that, you know, we've operationalized it.
01:00And this is really hard to do.
01:01It's taken over a decade, but we will stand down as individual businesses in order to provide another business to elevate because as individuals, we might be sitting in a business unit, but we believe it's the sum of the parts, you know, is greater than the whole type of a thing.
01:19So that's why we come together, and it's one of the most incredible things we do across the company, and the reason why we do it is it has impact.
01:26On a yearly basis, we continue to over-deliver on what your expectations are.
01:32Our expectation is actually to 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10x that, which we were hopefully, I think we were able to do for Wicked.
01:40And we'll do for Wicked for Good.
01:41Can I quote you?
01:44Yes.
01:45You can take that one to the bank, Dwight.
01:47I want to hear from you, but let me ask you, in all seriousness, have you already started those conversations for the new Chris Nolan film, The Odyssey?
01:54Of course.
01:54I mean, obviously.
01:56Yes.
01:56Of course.
01:57You can't expect all the Olympic athletes to come and do a triad for this entire...
02:00We do two years of planning in that type of work for Symphony.
02:02What do you know about the movie?
02:05Can we see the trailer right now?
02:07Can we see the trailer right now?
02:11I'm gonna see the trailer right now.
02:13I'm gonna see the trailer right now.
02:15And we're going to see the trailer right now.
02:16I think that's what it's the time for me.
02:18The trailer right now.
02:21I haven't already seen this happen.
02:23The trailer right now.
02:25And the trailer's after the weekend.
02:28What do you know about the place?
02:30It's all true yet.
02:39I think I thought...