Film is an inherently collaborative artform, as the hundreds of names listed in the end credits of any movie would suggest. Notions of art, entertainment and business also come together in a sometimes uneasy manner. You certainly need a lot of money to make most movies. Film has also, at times anyway, made money for some. Sometimes ideas surrounding art and corporate interests have coalesced so poorly, however, that not only have mediocre and sometimes truly awful films been made, but lots of money has been lost and reputations severely sullied. When the business-art alchemy of film-making just doesn’t work,…

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