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Brendan Fraser Says ‘Batgirl’ Cancellation Is an Example of Movies Being ‘Commodified’ in Hollywood: ‘It’s More Valuable to Burn it Down and Get the Insurance’ (variety.com)
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Brendan Fraser says 'Batgirl' being shelved shows that movies are being 'commodified' in Hollywood.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah.

An anecdote: AT&T was having a fire sale on the base iPhone 16 Plus, like so cheap that it must have been a loss. It didn’t make any sense to me, but an employee speculated that, since it was their worst selling model of the lineup, they were clearing the inventory and writing it off as a loss to compensate for some other transactions.