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If you want that $200M Marvel movie to exist, it has to monopolize screens, attention, and distribution networks. It’s not enough for it to break even. It needs to crush. And so, for you to enjoy it, 50 other weird, subtle, personal, maybe even beautiful projects need to vanish. There’s no room. The bandwidth’s gone. The theater chain dropped the indie to run Guardians of the Galaxy 9 on six screens. The game store won’t stock the narrative-driven $15 game because Fortnite and EA already ate the oxygen.

You can’t just “like both.” The ecosystem doesn’t work that way anymore. And that’s the quiet violence built into these entertainment economies: Your consumption requires the nonexistence of other people’s work.

Interesting take, but there's another side that Bravo is missing here. As someone who's worked in the industry, those $200M Marvel movies essentially fertilize everything else the studio produces. While those films may be their main bet, they also need to cover the themselves with a bunch of smaller budget films to address various audiences that make up the movie going public. This way they don't miss out on films that organically usurp manufactured blockbusters. Dark horses will always emerge in an-otherwise saturated marketplace. Thats what keeps it interesting, and why those weird, subtle, personal films that usually come out during the spring and awards season keep things from being too lopsided.

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My hyperfinancialized techbro response to this is: what you're describing is wildly inefficient and a finance problem.

So you're telling me the studios pump out junk comic book slop with high probability, to take the wins and fund lower probability good movies.

This is a roundabout way to fund the good movies, and the answer to me is they should just engage in financing. Surprisingly, we now have a recent technology where you can raise capital with efficiency, and also reach global scale.

Yes I'm saying we might need to have an options market for movies.

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Studios are wildly inefficient capital allocators, hence they’re dying right now.

Major studios are not looking to make good movies. The are first and foremost in the business of making money, the screen just happens to be the medium