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Exclusive Studio-Talent Relationships
In today’s highly competitive environment, the lifeblood of a studio is the talent who wants to work there. Studio creative executives develop and nurture relationships with talent and their representatives, and each studio seeks to make a case for why writers, directors, and producers should want to work with it, rather than with another studio. Network-affiliated studios advertise their shortened pipeline to motivated network buyers, the clarity of their creative mandates, and the absence of multiple layers of executive interference with the talent’s creative desires. Independent studios advertise their ability to shop projects freely and find the best (and most lucrative) home for every show, their unconflicted ...
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