Nikesh Arora

Theaters are available and they're great.

You know, like Hollywood talent is available.

They don't have other jobs and they're great.

So I think these worlds finally coming together, there's been a lot that's happened, but it's super exciting to see.

Yeah, the reality is also it's important to note that this has all happened in horror, right?

And this has happened once before with the Rocca Rocca brothers, you know, signing with A24 and making talk to me for about 4 million bucks that ended up making just about 100 million.

These are outsized returns like Curry Barker making something for a million dollars.

You know, Obsession was made for about a million dollars.

Focus purchased it for around 15 million.

And then generating $148 million, not even a month in, is absolutely insane.

And so horror has historically been cheaper to produce, right?

Even if you remember in the 90s, the Blair Witch Project was like this cheap indie horror movie that ended up exploding.

And I think there's something to explore about like the absurdity of horror and the absurdity of these movies and the absurdity of our world right now, and maybe the comfort in going to see something that is more absurd than the world around you.

That's just a hypothesis I have around

you know, horror, but horror has historically been cheap to make.

I think we're about to see every agent in Hollywood ping their creator talents and say, do you have a horror script?

Because it is that moment that's going to happen.

There will be likely an overreaction, you know, to this in Hollywood.

But I do think like what was proven over this past month is that internet native storytellers can tell a story that reaches millions of people, that fills theaters and potentially better than,

you know, the storytellers that cost you in the hundreds of millions of dollars.