Yesterday Ed Champion pointed me towards a Hollywood.com article about George Lucas. Turns out the director of the biggest blockbuster of all time agrees with Chris Anderson, and has decided to change his own production model:
"The Star Wars creator says making movies is too risky nowadays, because the average cost of shooting and marketing a blockbuster is now $200 million, so he's steering his production company, Lucasfilm, towards TV and low-budget movies."
What do you think this means for publishing? Do we have our own cultural need for book blockbusters, or do all writers depend on small, dedicated communities?
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