{"id":15898,"date":"2017-11-14T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15898"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:49","slug":"the-economics-of-amazons-decision-to-create-a-lord-of-the-rings-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-amazons-decision-to-create-a-lord-of-the-rings-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Amazon\u2019s Decision To Create A Lord Of The Rings TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/111417_0557_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon struck a deal to create a series of prequels for Lord of the Rings. Derek Thompson looked at the staggering economics of the deal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon is thought to have paid $250 million just to acquire the rights to create a show.<\/li>\n<li>Actually producing one will cost hundreds of millions more, and then there&#8217;s marketing costs.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon might wind up spending half a billion dollars on creating a show \u2013 that most people will just stream as part of their existing Amazon subscription.<\/li>\n<li>Still, Peter Jackson&#8217;s Lord of the Rings movies made $6 billion across six films, so maybe the economics will work out well.<\/li>\n<li>And adding more content to a well-explored universe has proven to be lucrative for others. Disney, after all, has essentially been making the same Marvel movie repeatedly for over a decade now.<\/li>\n<li>People like the familiar. Despite all the money spent on original content, people are most likely to watch back catalogues of old favourites on streaming services.<\/li>\n<li>And it makes sense for Amazon to bet big on a few headline shows. The rewards of having one great show can be exponentially better than having several good ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more analysis on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/11\/amazon-and-the-myth-of-moneyball-media\/545792\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon struck a deal to create a series of prequels for Lord of the Rings. Derek Thompson looked at the staggering economics of the deal: Amazon is thought to have paid $250 million just to acquire the rights to create a show. Actually producing one will cost hundreds of millions more, and then there&#8217;s marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/111417_0557_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15900,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions\/15900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}