Grazer: Modern technology benefits mega-hits but destroys mid-budget movies
Brian Grazer · a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us · Jan 2, 2019 · at 4:54
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer explains to Marc Andreessen how digital distribution models hollow out mid-tier movies while amplifying blockbuster franchises.
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“Technology today works best on the mega hit thing, and I think, you know, Empire is a mega hit, and what you just, and Fast and Furious, and the Marvel movies for Disney, it's amazing. Those mega hits, it, it's working. But, It doesn't work for the doubles. The singles and the doubles where, you know, there were times you could make twenty million dollars just on a movie, you wouldn't, if I said the title, you wouldn't even, you know what I mean? So on a double. So, that, that part has changed. The middle has changed.”
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