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Even Big-Name Flicks Get Orphaned

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Costs mean more movies languish in purgatory.

Being a Hollywood A-lister may get you a coveted dinner reservation, but it doesn’t guarantee your movies get released promptly—or ever. Creative disagreements, the increasing costs of marketing and production, executive shuffles, perceived timeliness, or lack thereof—these can all doom even a major studio blockbuster to wriggle in the uncertain...

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