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The Butterworth Effect
"I've only seen 10 movies. I feel like people would be like, you are not a focus group," he says. "No matter how many Butterworths you throw at an expensive movie project, if the reason for the movie existing is a corporate release date for a man named A. What's the Butterworth? Well, there were two Butterworths writing on Dial Destiny." He adds: "It just feels like there are a lot of very, very heavy conversations being ... thrown around all the time about the fate of theatrical and blah, blah, blah".
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