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Produced and Acquired/Licensed Content Costs and Advances
3 Months Ended
Jan. 02, 2021
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Produced and Acquired/Licensed Content Costs and Advances Disclosure Produced and Acquired/Licensed Content Costs and Advances
The Company classifies its capitalized produced and acquired/licensed content costs as long-term assets and generally classifies advances for live programming rights made prior to the live event as short-term assets. For purposes of amortization and impairment, the capitalized content costs are classified based on their predominant monetization strategy as follows:
Individual - lifetime value is predominantly derived from third-party revenues that are directly attributable to the specific film or television title (e.g. theatrical revenues or sales to third-party television programmers)
Group - lifetime value is predominantly derived from third-party revenues that are attributable only to a bundle of titles (e.g. subscription revenue for a DTC service or affiliate fees for a cable television network)
Total capitalized produced and licensed content by predominant monetization strategy is as follows:
As of January 2, 2021As of October 3, 2020
Predominantly Monetized IndividuallyPredominantly Monetized as a GroupTotalPredominantly Monetized IndividuallyPredominantly Monetized as a GroupTotal
Produced content
Theatrical film costs
Released, less amortization$2,775 $2,902 $5,677 $3,000 $2,601 $5,601 
Completed, not released473 479 522 210 732 
In-process3,965   255   4,220   3,322   259   3,581   
In development or pre-production275 — 275 262 16 278 
$7,488 $3,163 10,651 $7,106 $3,086 10,192 
Television costs
Released, less amortization$1,893 $5,723 $7,616 $2,090 $5,584 $7,674 
Completed, not released58 572 630 33 510 543 
In-process255 2,627 2,882 263 1,831 2,094 
In development or pre-production146 150 87 93 
$2,210 $9,068 11,278 $2,392 $8,012 10,404 
Licensed content - Television programming rights and advances5,423 6,597 
Total produced and licensed content$27,352 $27,193 
Current portion$1,423 $2,171 
Non-current portion$25,929 $25,022 
Amortization of produced and licensed content is as follows:
Quarter Ended January 2, 2021Quarter Ended December 28, 2019
Predominantly
Monetized
Individually
Predominantly
Monetized
as a Group
TotalPredominantly
Monetized
Individually
Predominantly
Monetized
as a Group
Total
Theatrical film costs$297$240$537$526 $311 $837 
Television costs3159581,273754   927   1,681   
Total produced content costs$612$1,198$1,810$1,280 $1,238 2,518 
Television programming rights and advances4,5393,731 
Total produced and licensed content costs(1)
$6,349$6,249 
(1)Primarily included in “Costs of services” in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income.