Anatomy of a movie market

Planet Money by NPR

Oct 16, 202632:09Business

Before an independent movie makes it to a streaming platform or a theater near you, it first needs to survive an artistic and economic gauntlet. And even for those movies that make it into elite film festivals like Sunda...

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