Good morning. I was scrolling through this thorough New York Times Magazine article about Netflix—though it’s really about the push and pull of creativity and commerce, Hollywood art and Silicon Valley science—when one line caught my eye:
“A $115 million movie budget is hard for Netflix to justify at almost any level of viewership, given that at the end of the day it supplies just two hours of content for a subscriber base that’s paying for a sense of infinity.”
Then it hit me: Wasn’t the budget for Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed Megalopolis something like $120 million? Oof. —Andrew Nusca
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