re: Jerry Seinfeld talks about why comedy isn't what it used to be...

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I mean, I agree that the budgets for all films are too bloated and prohibitive to risky IP. But most of what makes them risky is the constant threat of cancellation (or at the very least bad press) by the left after BLM and (more importantly) MeToo.

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Distribution is expensive, too. It's more than just the production budget of the movie.

Advertising and distribution costs are tens/hundreds of millions of dollars.

You could have a movie that cost $5k to make gross $10M at the box office and easily lose money for the distributor. It didn't used to be that way.