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>>38277
Hollywood has been experiencing egregious budget inflation for the last ten years, in spite of domestic box office only increasing by a blip during the same time frame (internationally it's a different story, but no one gives a shit about that for some bizarre reason). There's an even more pronounced discrepancy in gaming, but the general story is that a humongous apparatus has been built on top of past one-off successes out of all proportion to future anticipated revenue. You have vested interests cordoning off chunks of the movie business and charging extortionate rates simply because it's too much trouble to look elsewhere, with sprawling productions dwarfing the minnows in charge of it all, leading to the most massive misallocation of resources since Fox's Cleopatra, and at the end of it all they have to justify all this largesse and make insane box office predictions. It's like Pentagon pork without the spigot, it's expensive just because it's expensive.
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