Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler's Sinners Deal 'Could End the Studio System'(vulture.com)
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Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler's Sinners Deal 'Could End the Studio System'
https://www.vulture.com/article/to-hollywood-the-scariest-part-of-sinners-is-ryan-coogler.html
>As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.