It's very competitive, when it comes to wanting to make money with this.
I did it as a hobby, wanted it to be a serious hobby, but there weren't anyone committed enough to help me without any financial gain. Alone however, it was a very time consuming endeavour.
I wanted to create a site where user experience comes first, so I checked the quality of each movie and episode, uploaded everything one-by-one in at least 1080p, didn't add annoying popunder ads, just the pure 1080p movies and shows uninterrupted. It sounds already very time consuming....right?
It sure as hell was, because I just didn't wanna be the one out of 5000 movie sites, who autoembed everything with APIs and have little to no control over his content.
The other day I wanted to watch "The Resident" with my wife and typed it in Google Search.
I had basically 5 pages of illegal movie sites hosting this particular show, which is not even that popular.
These kind of sites are all over the place and there is nothing you can't watch online for free. It might be easy to make a site like this with autoembed, etc...BUT
It is definitely one of the hardest to make money with!
I made the right decision by saying farewell to my movie site, cause I make now couple hundreds/month online by selling Discord, Disney+ and Netflix subscriptions cheaper and it takes 10% of the time I spent on shaping the movie site (which I might add brought nothing). But of course...this wasn't my intention anyway. It was fun while it lasted.
Maybe some day I make a new one with an invitation system, showing only 4K movies without ads and interruptions, with a custom made iOS, Android and Smart TV app, but it's not gonna be in the near future
Cheers!