“Risk aversion has really paid off, and studios and production companies have noticed this…Recently the industry has seen a solid string of success born out of rebooting or upgrading content from the past. This is a risk-averse strategy. You bank on content where people already have a sense of the characters, they have a sense of what the plot is, what the story is.” — Walt Hicky of FiveThirtyEight Consumers are risk averse, preferring something that is known over the uncerta

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren on the set of Black Water (2018) Some of the most successful films have been made and gone on to break sales records without a single known actor or filmmaker attached. Independent filmmakers often point to films like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project as films that turned huge profits with no star power. So, does having big name talent in a film project matter? The simple answer is “Yes” Successful independent films that

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