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> Democratized? It’s more centralized than ever.

I don't know who is right here, but I'll provide an anecdote.

I know someone that wrote and directed a movie that had a very well known actor (you've heard of him) and had a limited run in theatres. Through that process I go to know a bit about the industry itself and it was very much a good old boys club where you absolutely had to play ball. Things like processing the formats was done with extremely expensive systems and if you tried to go around them no one would respond to you.

I don't know if it's better now, but I can imagine it is.