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How to Make a Blockbuster Movie

PolyMatter · Nov 12, 2026 · 13:19

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First 500 people get 2 months free of Skillshare: http://skl.sh/polymatter6Patreon: https://patreon.com/polymatterTwitter: https://twitter.com/polymattersReddit: https://reddit.com/r/PolyMatterDiscord: https://discord.gg/polymatter*The end of this video includes a paid sponsored promotion. This company had no part in the writing, editing, or production of the rest of the video.Hollywood is so repetitive and formulaic not because they don’t understand what we want to watch, but because of changing economic forces.CreditsMusic is by Varsity Star: https://varsitystar.bandcamp.com/releasesand the Varsity Star Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/varsitystarmusic/A lot of this video was inspired by the Stephen Follows website, one of the best sites about the industry: https://stephenfollows.com/hollywood-sequels-by-the-numbers/Avatar clip from Red Letter Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJarz7BYnHAhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6977817/Avatar-fans-suicidal-because-planet-Pandora-is-not-real.htmlhttps://screencraft.org/2015/11/18/how-to-write-four-quadrant-family-and-animated-scripts/https://stephenfollows.com/which-mpaa-rating-earns-the-most-money/https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=200824https://www.thewrap.com/pg-13-movies-dominated-2013-box-office-r-rated-comedies-clicked/http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/10/economics-of-the-movie-theater-where-the-money-goes-and-why-it-costs-us-so-much/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/aug/31/artsfeatureshttps://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/how-hollywood-accounting-can-make-a-450-million-movie-unprofitable/245134/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Needs_Momshttps://www.the-numbers.com/movie/budgets/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/16/the-business-of-star-wars-comes-with-a-huge-catch/?utm_term=.ba549a62ebd2https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/01/5905-2/https://stephenfollows.com/how-a-cinemas-box-office-income-is-distributed/Dinosaur silhouette inspired by https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=96840&picture=t-rex
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