Joel Haver has an insightful video, "YouTubers Can Make Movies?!?!", that's in part about the success of Obsession (and also Geese). He mentions that although Obsession has become a big success, there are massive inequalities in who's been rewarded. Some people who were instrumental to the success of the movie reaped very little financial reward, while Focus Features (which had no role in creating the movie) is set to make hundreds of millions of dollars distributing it. His video makes a lot of other interesting points -- I'd highly recommend it.
Will have to check it out! Certainly have been following the discourse there - saw some uproar over Jason Blum getting a $17m paycheck after coming in super late to executive produce.
Definitely a very interesting conversation over who deserves credit for a movie's success - like is attaching Blumhouse at the end of a trailer the difference between this becoming a direct-to-streaming movie vs. a runaway box office hit? Or are producers' contributions largely irrelevant compared to the original creative?
Curious how this changes movies moving forward. I noticed Coop and Curry's YouTube channel, that's a bad idea, is listed as one of the production companies on their next film - meaning they likely receive a much larger share of the financial windfall.
Joel Haver has an insightful video, "YouTubers Can Make Movies?!?!", that's in part about the success of Obsession (and also Geese). He mentions that although Obsession has become a big success, there are massive inequalities in who's been rewarded. Some people who were instrumental to the success of the movie reaped very little financial reward, while Focus Features (which had no role in creating the movie) is set to make hundreds of millions of dollars distributing it. His video makes a lot of other interesting points -- I'd highly recommend it.
Will have to check it out! Certainly have been following the discourse there - saw some uproar over Jason Blum getting a $17m paycheck after coming in super late to executive produce.
Definitely a very interesting conversation over who deserves credit for a movie's success - like is attaching Blumhouse at the end of a trailer the difference between this becoming a direct-to-streaming movie vs. a runaway box office hit? Or are producers' contributions largely irrelevant compared to the original creative?
Curious how this changes movies moving forward. I noticed Coop and Curry's YouTube channel, that's a bad idea, is listed as one of the production companies on their next film - meaning they likely receive a much larger share of the financial windfall.