Charles Holmes

But my fear, because as a music journalist, I watch it happen with music, where I'm like, it's starting to feel a little Nas X-ish, where it is like... Oh, shit, why you gotta... No, but what I'm saying is now the... It's Pride Month.

No, the lesson that the movie industry is going to take isn't, hey...

We should invest in a bunch of young creators who are connecting with, like, young people that look like them to tell interesting original stories at a, like, at a budget that works.

It is going to be, let's throw a bunch of money at influencers.

And I'm like, any single time you do that in any industry, you wake up in three, four years.

200 of them losing.

Yeah, like... Like, 250, 300 million.

It's a rounding error.

But it also, the bet worked with Project Hail Mary.

Yes.

IP, where they were just like... Right.

So it's like, for Amazon, I'm just like, hey, Massachusetts Universe flopped, but they did prove this year.

It's just like, I think that they're going to look at all these numbers and kind of be like...

all right, what is actually the smart IP bet?

Is it something like He-Man or is it like, do people actually want us to have a Project Hail Mary, a book that's beloved?

It feels like The Martian, same fucking writer.

I feel like they did stop.

But the literary adaptation that they're doing now with what was the Simi Sweeney movie that did fucking bonkers?

The Housemaid.

The Housemaid.