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Worst Money Ever Spent
He said that when he was doing his comedies, or when there was a lot of comedies, the DVD market was so amazing that you could, like, let's say a movie costs $40 million, you make $20 at the box office, and then you make like $40, $60 in DVDs. Wow. Yeah. And then once that went away, people are like, I'm not gonna greenlight any comedies. Like, why would I fucking do that? They don't sell internationally. We went to a—
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No one was there.
No, Naveen was like, it's on streaming. It was in both. And we were like, oh, we'll just watch it here. Yeah. Do you know why there's no more comedies anymore? Judd Apatow explained it.
No, I'd love to hear this.
He said that when he was doing his comedies, or when there was a lot of comedies, the DVD market was so amazing that you could, like, let's say a movie costs $40 million, you make $20 at the box office, and then you make like $40, $60 in DVDs. Wow. Yeah. And then once that went away, people are like, I'm not gonna greenlight any comedies. Like, why would I fucking do that? They don't sell interna…
Would comedy sell more as DVDs? I guess, as opposed to action?
Yeah, because people wanted it. Like, people would want Wedding Crashers or whatever. We went to a film financing thing the other night, and we were talking to people that like finance movies, and they were just like, yeah, just action and horror. Really? Act…
Why are you saying horror so weird? Horror.