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Movies and Parkinson's Law
The cost to make a movie has little or no correlation to its profitability.
Movies cost so much because of the financial concept known as Parkinson's Law, which means film budgets will continually expand to use the capital available, regardless if the extra cash results in a better product.
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Why the cost of movies increased
During the mid-2000s economic boom, Wall Street hedge funds partnered with investment banks to push $15 billion into Hollywood films. A new payment structure gave outside investors a slice of a film's total profits over its product's lifetime, such as box office sales, video on demand, DVDs, TV l...
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Parkinson's Law
When working from home, have you ever felt like you couldn't do anything after lunch because you know you have the time to work on it later at night?
This phenomenon is called Parkinson's law where work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. It basically mean...
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