Frequent moviegoers often note that movies are rarely based on original ideas. M

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Frequent moviegoers often note that movies are rarely based on original ideas. Most of them are based on a television series, a video game, or, most commonly, a book.
Why? To help you answer this question, start with the following.
a. Does a movie or a book have a higher fixed cost of production?

b. In 2005,American studios released 563 movies and American publishers
produced 176,000 new titles. How does your answer in part a explain such a
wide difference? Which is riskier: Publishing a book or producing a movie?

c. How does the difference in fixed costs and risk of failure explain why so many
movies are based on successful books? As a result, where do you expect to see
more innovative plots, dialogues, and characters: In novels or movies?

Explanation / Answer

a. Yes it does. It is also in an oligopoly power with a chain.It is a business camp. You are not in,you are out forever. b.Statistics don't lie. It confirmed the answer in A. c.The risk of failure will be reduced if the movie is based on the best selling book. People love reading book to be in touch with the feeling the author provided.The movie has limited imagination.

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