[HN Gopher] Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
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       Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
        
       Author : kevin_hu
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-05-02 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | McLaren_Ferrari wrote:
       | The population is getting older too.
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       | Music is the most age dependant business. It's literally
       | impossible to discover your favorite song at age 35+ and it's
       | most likely already buried in your brain forever between 14 and
       | 20.
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       | Same things for movies, franchises sell because there is a
       | familiarity to it. Stuff that isn't franchise just doesn't sell.
       | A possible exception would be biopics.
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       | I predict a huuuge amount of high budget biopic to integrate
       | revenues from franchises.
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       | JFK, MLK, Reagan, Hendrix, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles,
       | Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan...they will all get a biopic with
       | a budget of no less than 175M a pop.
        
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