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Concord’s $400 Million Failure Still Haunts Sony One Year Later — Sony Execs Make Big Changes After Concord Disaster

Concord’s $400 Million Failure Still Haunts Sony One Year Later — Sony Execs Make Big Changes After Concord Disaster

One year ago, just two weeks after its release, the hero-shooter known as Concord was permanently shut down due to its abysmal sales and astonishingly low player count. Just a couple months later, Sony, in an attempt to cut losses, disbanded Firewalk studios, which had developed the game over the course of 8 years.

Colbert Wins First Late Show Emmy After Being Cancelled: Is This Recognition or a Hollywood Political Statement?

Colbert Wins First Late Show Emmy After Being Cancelled: Is This Recognition or a Hollywood Political Statement?

In one of the strangest twists in recent Hollywood memory, Stephen Colbert has finally won an Emmy for The Late Show—just weeks after CBS announced his program is being canceled. After nearly a decade on the air and 33 nominations without a single victory, Colbert’s show secured its first statuette in the Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series category.

The timing couldn’t be more suspicious. Was this really about rewarding creative merit, or was Hollywood sending a political message after CBS pulled the plug on the partisan host?

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