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If the Electric State and Citadel are indicative of anything, it’s that Hollywood has hit a crisis point. Massive budgets, star-studded casts, and familiar franchises are no longer guarantees of success. Instead, they have become symbols of industry excess and creative stagnation.
For Disney, Netflix, and other giants, this signals a need for urgent reform—an acknowledgment that throwing money at directors and projects with disastrous track records is a reckless gamble. The potential collapse of once-powerful franchises and studios may be on the horizon if these patterns continue.