that the supreme court s ruling against the federal protection of abortion rights was immoral. her comments came as thousands marched in washington and other cities on saturday to protest against the verdict. now on bbc news, the media show. hello, we re bringing today s media show to you from the heat of la. i m at universal studios to meet one of the most powerful women in hollywood the chairman of universal filmed entertainment group, who just happens to be a brit. her decisions have led to everything from huge surprise hits like mamma mia and straight outta compton to enduring franchises, the likes of fast & furious and despicable me. and back in 2020, with cinemas shut by the pandemic, donna langley made a single bold move that transformed her industry allowing audiences to stream brand new movies at home. donna langley, welcome to the media show. thank you. we met earlier this year when you very kindly hosted a load ofjournalists at a lovely, swanky london hotel o
in towards north west england, north west wales, across more of northern england and wales as the evening goes on. been quite pleasant after the chilly start in that sunshine towards the south east. so clearing from much of scotland and northern ireland quite quickly this evening, rhe rain. and then it moves south overnight through wales and england, maybe not reaching the very far southeast until we get on into tomorrow morning. it ll be a milder night in the south, a cooler night across northern areas and throughout the rest of today, tonight and tomorrow morning, across northern scotland, northern and western isles, 50 to 60 mph gusts and plenty of showers moving in. rain clearing the southeast by lunchtime tomorrow. then most places having a dry, sunny day. the showers are into western scotland, a few for northern ireland, north west england, north wales and perhaps the north midlands. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: police in ireland have named the 10 people who
now on bbc news, the media show. hello, we re bringing today s media show to you from the heat of la. i m at universal studios to meet one of the most powerful women in hollywood the chairman of universal filmed entertainment group, who just happens to be a brit. her decisions have led to everything from huge surprise hits like mamma mia and straight outta compton to enduring franchises the likes of fast & furious and despicable me. and back in 2020, with cinemas shut by the pandemic, donna langley made a single bold move that transformed her industry allowing audiences to stream brand new movies at home. donna langley, welcome to the media show. thank you. we met earlier this year when you very kindly hosted a load ofjournalists at a lovely, swanky london hotel on the day you were made a dame. and you then left that party and went off for a dinner which you were hosting and the papers were full of it the next day, that you had hosted, amongst other people, tom cruise.
and it seems like a lot of them aren t. yeah, i mean, certainly we are again, we re seeing consumer behaviour shifting and changing. but i think we re beginning to see a little bit of a settling of some of those more extreme trends. you know, certainly during covid, it was very easy to say, streaming is up, movie theatres are going down, because all the movie theatres were closed. but next year, we re going to see more movies in the movie theatres than we did this year. so i think, as we edge along the continuum of the covid recovery, we re going to continue to see the story of cinema evolve. but the very fact of you deciding, i m going to put things on our streaming platform quicker, it is heralding the demise of cinema. yeah, and i think the bar is getting higherforfilms that go into the movie theatres. you know, it would be easy to say, we re only going to put the good ones
we take the misstep there? and i think that s very healthy for an organisation to do that. i think oftentimes, it s easy to celebrate the wins and a lot harder to get self reflected as a culture and as an organisation, as to how we got there. and as the leader, it s also really important, i think, to be accountable, you know, and just lead by that example because, you know, the buck stops at the top. absolutely. i mean, if we turn to the future of cinema, you know, it is so uncertain at the moment you know, there s the fallout from the pandemic shutdown, which still looms obviously very large, there s a cost of living crisis going on, and, of course, the streamers who are continuing to have a dramatic impact on how we consume movies. how worried are you that cinemas will close if people don t use them? yeah, i don t think i m not worried.