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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

A.D. Murphy on Hollywood's tendency for repetition

From  Hollywood: The Oral History (2022)

If somebody hits with

a certain type of film,

then everyone wants to

make one on the not

unlikely assumption that 

"oh, I guess a lot of people

out there are interested in

seeing this. . ."

So everybody will make them.

And the public will go to see it,

until the public stops going

to see it.  But one thing that

doesn't change is that the

top ten films at any one time

do half of the available business

and all the rest are fighting for

the other half.

That is always true.

The public gravitates toward

the hits.  The hits are like

magnets.

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