
The Midsummer Mailbag
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The Risk Aversion of Movies
Do you feel like studios deploy risk adverse strategies differently to TV, linear, or otherwise than they do film? Sure. I think obviously just budget, budgetarily, we're talking about the ability to make some more gambles because TV typically doesn't cost as much as movies to produce. But that said, for the most part, movies are still kind of tied to the physical world and that you put out a movie and then people spend American dollars at the multiplex to say like, yes, we support this or not.
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