If you film a tree falling in the woods, and nobody can legally watch it, can it save your parent company money?
Creative accounting - Karl Smallwood explains how a massive hit film can look like it lost money. Christian Thorsberg breaks down how Warner Bros. Discovery shelving Batgirl didn’t lose the money they already spent.
Wonky tax links - Tax Notes illustrates the mechanism producers use to write off acquiring and developing stories they never produce. KPM & Associates list ways film and production companies reduce their tax burden.
Now you see it - Rudie Obias takes stock of films shelved for years before their release. Corbin Davenport reminds us that paying for digital copies of films and TV doesn’t mean you own them.
Now you don’t - Owen Dennis shares his experience of watching Infinity Train get scrubbed from streaming. Author Daniel Wilson writes about the hope and disappointment of getting optioned, but not produced. Noah Hawley discusses the end of his Star Trek project. Ernie Smith collects a shortlist of produced films that never saw an official release. Matt Zoller Seitz digs into Disney limiting access to films from the 20th Century Fox library. Jim Vorel remembers the massive DVD library Netflix used to maintain.
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Patrick Rhone’s thoughts on what it means to use “the good stuff.”
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