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Animation: the unsung hero of the Georgia film scene.
Original IP has been quietly emerging from Georgia for decades - as animation. A look at the studios, schools, and creators powering a $370B+ global market from inside the state's "film factory" reputation.
India released 1,800 films last year. Hollywood showed up to twelve of them.
Why the global content map has already moved - and what U.S. independents are getting wrong about scale, audience, and where the next decade of stories will actually come from.
Why film finance is breaking — and how today's cap stacks have to change.
The producer's-eye view of why traditional indie financing structures don't survive contact with 2026 — and the cap-stack patterns we're using to keep projects whole.
Check out Lauren Spaulding's story.
An interview with our Chief Creative Officer on the path from filmmaker to studio-builder, the values that anchor RBL, and what "creator first" really has to look like in practice.
Why Hollywood is losing money on every movie — and what the real box office math looks like.
A breakdown of how studios actually account for revenue and loss, why the headline box office number is almost always misleading, and what independent filmmakers can learn from the math Hollywood hopes you won't do.