Vascellaro: Traditional Hollywood Studios Were Merely Piles of Money
Matt Vascellaro · #75: The Rise of the Tech Bro · More or Less Podcast · Nov 29, 2024 · at 49:18
Filmmaker Matt Vascellaro reflects on selling a TV series to Warner Bros. and questions the purpose of legacy Hollywood studios.
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“But basically what I could figure out is that the studios were just piles of money that made deals, overall deals with producers. And then they would develop TV shows in this case and try and sell them to streamers. And I realized the studios didn't really do anything.”
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