Susan Hayes Culleton

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3,424 appearances 24 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 3d ago

Susan Hayes Culleton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Taking Stock · How Christopher Nolan is changing the economics of Hollywood · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And that is that he started off the way he did. voice-verified

He just got better. voice-verified

He just attracted more money. voice-verified

He was able to deliver the return on investment, even though he has a reputation for non-linear type movie storylines. voice-verified

Am I simplifying? voice-verified

Am I oversimplifying here? voice-verified

The elephant here in the room, of course, is that when you talk about younger people, their choice of screen is a mobile screen and often it can be TikTok and Instagram Reels. voice-verified

Or apart from that, it can be looking at Netflix and going down the road of streamers as distinct to into the cinemas. voice-verified

How much has the smaller screen and the mobile screen had an impact on what we're talking about here today? voice-verified

But I hear what you're saying in terms of the output, Darren. voice-verified

But if I look at the input and we look at the revenue model here, as you say, the business has changed as well. voice-verified

In the past, the whole success of a movie economically would have relied on box office, syndication, reruns. voice-verified

But now streaming leads to licensing fees, platform deals and opaque internal accounting. voice-verified

So isn't it not just about what people want or the size of the screen they're looking at or the changes in the demographic, but how the deal is actually done? voice-verified

Do you think if I interviewed someone in the 1990s, they would have said it would be very hard to lose money on making a movie? voice-verified

Well, speaking of Disney, I was watching recently the release of Moana, the live action one. voice-verified

And it seems to be that if you don't do well in that opening weekend, it's written off. voice-verified

And that is very much what the stock market said. voice-verified

That's what Movie Buff said. voice-verified

Are we wrong, though? voice-verified

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