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Blockbusters are not the only movies that get made. Let Hollywood keep Batman. In the meantime, it's not hard to imagine a new way of making and distributing Ma
by drumdance 15y ago
Blockbusters are not the only movies that get made. Let Hollywood keep Batman. In the meantime, it's not hard to imagine a new way of making and distributing Mad Men and Portlandia.
- cynicalkane 15y agoMad Men is a big-budget TV show. Its per episode budget is north of $2 million.
- hapless 15y agoMad Men produces 13, 45-minute episodes a season. 13 hours of content for $33 million (at 2.5 million an episode.) That's $55,000 a minute, versus $1,462,962 a minute for Avatar. An order of magnitude difference. Each minute of Avatar cost nearly as much as a small episode of Mad Men. That's exactly the kind of feature a shrunken Hollywood, not focused on blockbuster hits, might produce.