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> The cardinal rule of Hollywood is: Never use your own money Since it wasn't explained in the opener.

• cafard 1y ago
  Thanks.
• ghssds 1y ago
  I don't understand. Someone gotta put their hand in their pocket and break the rule or nothing would ever happen.
  • Jtsummers 1y ago
    It's like many startups: spend other people's money by finding investors. It's a bit of a semantic game, but investing != spending. Paying someone's salary is not an investment in that you don't get money back from that person, you get something of value hopefully, but not a monetary return from them. Investing in a movie or a startup has an expectation of a monetary return, so the investment is not "spent" (relevant synonyms: exhausted, consumed, depleted) by the investor. Then whoever is actually making the movie, versus investing in it, is the one spending money. But it's not their money, it's the producers' money.
  • add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
    That's the problem with people needlessly going out of their way to post the tl;dr which encourages people not to read the actual source with nuance and context. Of course we won't understand.