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How Film Distribution Works | Harry Smith on Sony, Ethan Hawke, & the Movie Business
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Who really gets paid when a movie hits theaters? Usually it isn't the producer, and it isn't the A-list star.
In this episode of The Creative Executive, Harry Smith (founder of Smith Global Media, real estate developer, and brother of Will Smith) joins Siddhi to explain how money actually moves through the film business.
Harry never meant to work in entertainment. He had an aversion to an industry where "no" rarely means no and "yes" rarely means yes. That changed after a…
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