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Movies are capital intensive, a movie is less likely to go viral than a video that is made to be viral. Thus, doing this is risky. Also, people wanting to creat
by eptcyka 2y ago
Movies are capital intensive, a movie is less likely to go viral than a video that is made to be viral. Thus, doing this is risky. Also, people wanting to create viral movies probably do not want to make viral videos.
- al_borland 2y agoThese old movies have already made their money. Anything they can get now is just gravy. It’s a Wonderful Life is popular because the copyright expired and TV stations could play it for free. Playing it so much got people to watch, and now it’s a classic. It bombed originally. Putting old movies on YouTube gives them a chance at a second life, and the studio doing it, means they can still earn some money on something that would otherwise just sit in a vault somewhere.
- eptcyka 2y agoI don’t disagree with you, but the original commentor posed the qeustion Why don’t indie film producers choose to premier on YouTube?.