The ongoing consolidation of the content industry is uprooting the Hollywood jobs market, but from the destruction caused by deals like Paramount’s merger with Skydance, there rises opportunity for specialist software and services start-ups. More mergers mean more content libraries being fused together, on a global level, creating a pandemic of Frankenstein’s monsters masquerading as entertainment archives. Speaking of pandemics, UK-based FooEngine was founded in September 2020, sensing during the Covid era that content companies needed faster and more efficient ways to ingest, process, package, and distribute content – ultimately migrating content assets without the bottlenecks caused by legacy on-prem systems. One such CMS bottleneck is if a file arrives ahead of time. Production staff might not look at that…