Greetings all,

Apologies for not updating you all since we reached 10K, but the amount of support and recognition we've gotten has been truly overwhelming. When I started this, I thought maybe I'd get a few thousand and print out a 500-page document to hand-deliver to Warners, but by now, the list of signatures is nearly 2500 pages long, and physical copies are going to be darned expensive.

Still, I wanted to let you all know that we've already been making moves towards Warners to keep our voices heard. I've been in touch with a good handful of people at both Turner (where the news of FilmStruck's closure was just as much a shock to them as it was to us), and with people at WarnerMedia, to make sure they know who we are and how much FilmStruck means to us.

The sad fact of so many of these conversations is that everyone involved seemed to truly love FilmStruck, and the decision to close its service has more to do with Warner's interests in other fields than the marvelous roster of classic, independent, and foreign films that FilmStruck has to offer.

There's been a lot of doubt on all sides, including plenty of people who've signed this petition, as to whether the voices of so many will mean anything to such a giant corporation (especially when those voices are communicated via online petition). Truthfully, I don't know whether it will change people's minds, but the good news is that they've heard our voices. They know about this petition, and while they might have been hoping it would go away quietly, we need to show them that we're not ready to let them take away what means so much to us. Art deserves to be seen, and I highly encourage everybody reading this right now to reach out to anybody you can at WarnerMedia and express your desire to keep FilmStruck. The fight isn't over yet.

What's even more incredible: Today, dozens of filmmakers added their names to an open letter published on Deadline expressing the need for FilmStruck to continue, and what it would mean for cinema if they shuttered the service. Hollywood is a crazy place, and yet, when it comes to the art of cinema, sometimes things like this bring people together. As they reference in one of the two letters, Roger Ebert was speaking a great truth when he said that cinema was "a machine for empathy."

As I said before, I'm not sure whether WarnerMedia will change their minds and go back on their decision to close FilmStruck, but the good news about this is that I know a lot of other people in Hollywood are watching the progress we're making here, and they see that there truly is a market for this kind of service. Even if FilmStruck does die, it sounds like there are plenty of people willing to carry the baton from here, and perhaps something new will be born from all of this. When that happens, I hope we can all find each other in another community, supporting the art of cinema that we love so much.

In the meantime, continue to let your voice be heard. Tweet about it, write about it, do everything you can to show the world that FilmStruck is an invaluable service and deserves to be kept around.

Most importantly, don't lose the faith. Sometimes it's all we have.

#SaveFilmStruck