Screenwriter, producer, and director Drew Pearce once lamented to me that Hollywood has basically given up on the idea of making anything but blockbusters with insane budgets and then small art house films on the other end of the spectrum that tend to rake in plaudits come award season. The way he put it, these days “studios basically just make $5 million movies or $200 million movies.”
That’s one reason why writers like Zack Stentz are increasingly falling thankfully into the open arms of Netflix, which on Friday debuted Stentz’s new film Rim of the World about misfit kids at summer camp who team up to fight aliens.
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If Netflix wants to keep growing, it has to keep making content like ‘Rim of the World’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 26 May 2019 at 09:02:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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