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Hollywood is so repetitive and formulaic not because they don’t understand what we want to watch, but because of changing economic forces.
Credits
Music is by Varsity Star: https://varsitystar.bandcamp.com/releases
and the Varsity Star Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/varsitystarmusic/
A lot of this video was inspired by the Stephen Follows website, one of the best sites about the industry: https://stephenfollows.com/hollywood-sequels-by-the-numbers/
Avatar clip from Red Letter Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJarz7BYnHA
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6977817/Avatar-fans-suicidal-because-planet-Pandora-is-not-real.html
https://screencraft.org/2015/11/18/how-to-write-four-quadrant-family-and-animated-scripts/
https://stephenfollows.com/which-mpaa-rating-earns-the-most-money/
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=200824
https://www.thewrap.com/pg-13-movies-dominated-2013-box-office-r-rated-comedies-clicked/
http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/economics-of-the-movie-theater-where-the-money-goes-and-why-it-costs-us-so-much/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/aug/31/artsfeatures
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-hollywood-accounting-can-make-a-450-million-movie-unprofitable/245134/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Needs_Moms
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/budgets/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/16/the-business-of-star-wars-comes-with-a-huge-catch/?utm_term=.ba549a62ebd2
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/01/5905-2/
https://stephenfollows.com/how-a-cinemas-box-office-income-is-distributed/
Dinosaur silhouette inspired by https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=96840&picture=t-rex
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