What works theatrically? And how do you turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes’ for a passion project in an everchanging entertainment landscape where there’s a push and pull between the big screen and streaming?
On today’s Crew Call we talk with Susan Downey and Amanda Burrell of Team Downey, who are behind the HBO limited Park Chan-wook series The Sympathizer, about knocking down walls in today’s Hollywood in order to get smart, elevated projects off the ground.
Says Burrell, who is the President of Team Downey, “Our job is to get people to say yes and that’s with our passion, with our pushing.” Adds Downey, “The marketplace is fickle, everybody is trying to get people in theaters, or in this case, watching on their streamer…So many things contribute to you getting a ‘yes’ (on a project).
Even Robert (Downey, Jr.) gives us a ‘No’.” While genre is still surefire for the big screen, mid-budget action films are tricky.
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