Patterson: Film industry suffers chronic boom-and-bust overspending cycles
Frank Patterson · How storytellers can thrive in business (with Trilith Studios' Frank Patterson) | Masters of Scale · May 30, 2025 · at 13:29
Frank Patterson, CEO of Trilith Studios, reflects on the post-streaming boom correction in Hollywood content spending.
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“Hollywood has this habit of, and a lot of industries are guilty of this, but we in the film industry are very guilty of this, spending like drunken sailors, waking up hungover.”
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