David Rosenthal: uncertainty

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…Yep, I think that's right. All right, so that's the animation process. That is why this is such a giant, difficult undertaking to create something like Snow White. Yep. Absolutely enormous undertaking. So when all is said and done, it takes $1.5 million of investment over 3 years of studio work to create Snow White. Remember, this is at the same time as Disney is making short cartoons for like, I don't know, $20,000, $30,000. And even that is way above what anybody else in the industry is spending. This is $35 million inflation adjusted. And yeah, movies are like $300 million budgets today, but imagine nobody's doing that and you have the first idea to create an animated movie and you're like, I'd like $35 million of budget to make that.…

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