Ted Balaker’s movies defy Hollywood groupthink.
His work has questioned the rise of woke comedy (“Can We Take a Joke?“) and explored the flaws associated with Eminent Domain (“Little Pink House“).
His latest film skewers DEI policies on U.S. campuses.
“The Coddling of the American Mind” is based on the 2018 tome of the same name. The feature, released earlier this year on Substack, is now available on major platforms like Google Play and iTunes. Amazon, one of the biggest players in the VOD space. was supposed to debut the film this week as well.
Two days after its rollout … nothing. And Balaker isn’t happy.
This situation is starting to smell worse.
Our team has just learned from someone closely involved with our release, someone who has shepherded many movies onto Prime Video, that, in his experience, this is the first time Amazon hasn’t released a movie on the designated date.
Balaker says Amazon has yet to explain why “Coddling’s” debut has been delayed. The issue has dramatically impacted the film’s rollout.
Prime Video had been the outlet we were promoting most. After all, just about everyone uses Amazon, so we had access to a massive potential audience.
Even if the movie suddenly becomes available today, so much damage has been done already. We have been planning our release for many months, and have devoted many thousands of dollars and countless hours to it.
If this sounds familiar, it should.
Amazon Prime dropped Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, an acclaimed and popular PBS documentary on Justice Clarence Thomas, making it unavailable to stream during Black History Month. https://t.co/Bqkfflo76P
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 27, 2021
Amazon previously pulled the documentary “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” from its cyber-shelves two years ago. No warning. No explanation. The film allowed the conservative Supreme Court Justice to tell his story on his terms.
The film eventually found a home elsewhere, including SalemNOW.
Amazon also initially attempted to block “What Killed Michael Brown.”
The streamer alleged the film, which questioned the media’s narratives surrounding Brown’s 2014 death following a police altercation, didn’t meet its quality standards. That farcical claim drew some media attention, which may have forced Amazon to backpedal.
More recently, the filmmaker behind “The War on Children” alleged that Amazon wouldn’t stream his right-leaning documentary.
The title remains unavailable on its platform.
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