From GTA 6 to Viral Cows (Episode 162)

From GTA 6 and Netflix to Silent Hill’s 1990s technological horror, a controversial Robin Hood comparison and a viral Chinese cow cartoon becoming a blockbuster, we explore how games, movies, memes and audiences are increasingly shaping one another. Who really controls popular culture now.

Watch & Listen Here:

GTA 6 and Netflix, when the game becomes the media event.

• GTA 6’s Extended Look Trailer Seemingly Paid Off For Netflix With Massive Viewership

Silent Hill: Townfall, why the 1990s are frightening again.

• The ’90s are a “perfect time for horror,” says Silent Hill: Townfall dev who wants the game to make you feel technologically vulnerable

The Uprising, when politics changes the meaning of a movie.

• The Uprising distributor denies it’s a Robin Hood movie in one of the year’s oddest controversies
• Who gets to decide what a movie is “about”?
• Stuart Hall encoding/decoding connection:
• Producer’s intended meaning → text → audience interpretation.

The Chinese cow cartoon, the internet turns a meme into a movie industry.

• Viral Chinese Cow Cartoon Becomes One Of The Most Profitable Movies Ever Made