- Asymco: Hollywood by the numbers. IN-DEPTH
- The Critical Path 20: Below the (belt)line. Explores Hollywood financials.
- The Critical Path 21: Negative Costs. Dan and Horace take on the way income from movies is distributed and why no movies ever make money.
- The Critical Path 71: Bingewatch.
- The Critical Path 80: Functional Structure. What is a functional organization and why is that a thing of beauty? What do Pixar and Apple have in common? EXCELLENT
- Horace hypothesizes that apps will become the new distribution mechanism for entertainment. INSIGHTFUL
In one Critical Path episode (can't remember which), Horace posits that Hollywood is like a distributed functional organization:
- Workers are organized by specialty (acting, rigging, costuming, etc)
- Bands of workers are assembled for specific projects
- The workers are disbanded when the project is finished
The main difference between the Hollywood model vs a functional organization is that the actors, etc are all essentially freelance rather than belonging to a given company.