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Team Downey On What’s Ripe For Theatrical, ‘Sympathizer’ Origins, ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’ & More: “Our Job Is To Get People To Say ‘Yes'” – Crew Call Podcast

Susan Downey and Amanda Burrell of Team Downey on the ever-changing entertainment landscape, Robert Downey Jr. and 'The Sympathizer'

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). But there’s hope for auteurs: “There’s an appetite for risky things that get in a conversation,” says Burrell about A24-like projects and their potential to work in cinemas. With post Covid and the dual strikes impacting consumer supply and demand, producers find themselves in a situation where projects that they were passionate about two years ago, may have expired.

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