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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i see.
well, i see but i don't see where all the money is flowing. because that wiki doesn't really align with the article in the op. spielberg says it's about to implode due to costs. but that wiki says hollywood creatively adjust costs down.
who get's all the damn money? !!  |
The studios do. There's a lot of money that just gets shuffled around the books within the various companies involved, all of which are usually under the umbrella of the studio involved. I'd bet that 1/2 of those big $100 million budgets are usually just funny money being moved around like this. Maybe more.
It's the movie business version of music business "recouping".
The studios actually set up a business for each movie which then takes a direct investment of cash, that with all intents and purposes they want to keep them in the red, which means there's no net profit.
If you think about it to, at this point Lucas and Spielberg are independent filmmakers. They finance their own projects. This paradigm shift really is huge for independent filmmakers, being the two at the top of the list. There guys know it.