The future of Hollywood and games
summary
Hollywood faces a shift: mobile is the primary consumption screen and Apple apps > global box office as revenue, so traditional funnel economics (ten scripts in development for one greenlit) and multi-year theatrical windows no longer fit. Branded games deliver live-updated engagement—examples include two Ice Age mobile titles showing ~2.5M downloads—and studio game groups report very high margins (around 88–89% contribution margin), yet stakeholder fragmentation and short-term licensing still block scale.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:29Hollywood’s declining revenue
- 3:15Broken content creation
- 4:38Live service games challenge
- 6:41Games as profit pool
- 8:45Stakeholder conflicts
- 9:47Startup approach to IP
- 11:34Q&A
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