Ari Emanuel
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Podcast Appearances
Why?
Because you would have to do coverage while you're in the mail room.
I'm dyslexic.
Movie script, 130 pages, 120 pages.
TV script, 30 pages.
I'm not spending all weekend on a hundred pages.
Now that little thing, because the money was in television.
Bang.
And then when we started Endeavor with George Gilder's book, and I'm reading it in Life After Television, I'm like, there's going to be a lot more distribution.
There's only so much content creators at the time.
Content was going to change and expand, but there's limited supply and demand.
Prices are going up for creators.
And television where you could make, I went on Bill Haber's desk, the head of television at the time.
It was Mike Ovitz, Ron Meyer, Bill Haber.
The huge money, huge money was coming in because of television.
Not that the movie business wasn't because you had the DVD business at the time and gross participation and everything like that.
But you had a hit television show like ALF.
I remember sitting on the desk, listening to all the calls.
And there was a fight between Mike Ovitz and Bernie Bernstein on ALF, what they were paying out.
That thing paid out a fortune.