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EASieg retweeted

16 days ago

A YouTuber who made short-form videos and skits just made one of the most successful movies ever. It's doing over $100 million at the box office while costing less than $1 million to make. So far, a 100x return, not bad... The movie is called Obsession. I saw it on the opening weekend. It was playing on the smaller screens at the theater, with the theater half full. But sales jumped by 40% by the next weekend. Do you know how insane that is? For weekend sales to actually jump that much after a movie has already been out for a week? Absolutely crazy. A few reasons why this movie is doing so well. For one, it's purely original. There are so many remakes that any deeply original script has an advantage. Another thing is that this movie didn't rely on jump scares. Jump scares are rare, and if overused, they're cheap. This movie's horror was more creepy, weird, awkward, and psychologically difficult situations. Another thing is that the movie just looks so good. I have no clue how they shot it to look this atmospheric and good (lighting and sets) for less than a million. But I think the biggest reason this movie worked so well is the director's training. He's 26 years old. He's done YouTube for years, hundreds of sketches and short films. He has had feedback from the audience on what works and what doesn't. YouTube provides detailed analytics on everything, and the comments also provide feedback. You get instant audience reaction on everything you post. YouTube has made him an expert on this stuff before ever even making a full-length movie. What an amazing accomplishment. I suspect there will be many great YouTubers who jump to filmmakers, and I'm here for it.

joecarlsonshow's tweet photo. A YouTuber who made short-form videos and skits just made one of the most successful movies ever. It's doing over $100 million at the box office while costing less than $1 million to make. So far, a 100x return, not bad...

The movie is called Obsession. I saw it on the opening weekend. It was playing on the smaller screens at the theater, with the theater half full. But sales jumped by 40% by the next weekend. Do you know how insane that is? For weekend sales to actually jump that much after a movie has already been out for a week? Absolutely crazy.

A few reasons why this movie is doing so well. For one, it's purely original. There are so many remakes that any deeply original script has an advantage. Another thing is that this movie didn't rely on jump scares. Jump scares are rare, and if overused, they're cheap. This movie's horror was more creepy, weird, awkward, and psychologically difficult situations. Another thing is that the movie just looks so good. I have no clue how they shot it to look this atmospheric and good (lighting and sets) for less than a million.

But I think the biggest reason this movie worked so well is the director's training. He's 26 years old. He's done YouTube for years, hundreds of sketches and short films. He has had feedback from the audience on what works and what doesn't. YouTube provides detailed analytics on everything, and the comments also provide feedback. You get instant audience reaction on everything you post. YouTube has made him an expert on this stuff before ever even making a full-length movie.

What an amazing accomplishment. I suspect there will be many great YouTubers who jump to filmmakers, and I'm here for it.

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Eric Sieg @EASieg

4 months ago

@LizThomasStrat @fundstrat You absolutely crushed this interview. Didn't know you existed until this interview and you left a really incredible first impression. Awesome job!

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Joseph Carlson

@joecarlsonshow

4 months ago

What we have learned from the market the past few weeks is that AI is going to replace every stock you own, and the companies that are going to power AI are also not worth anything. Have fun investing.

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Joseph Carlson

@joecarlsonshow

4 months ago

I just want to get this straight. Big tech companies, which, with the smartest leaders in the world and smartest employees in the world, with billions of daily users on dozens of platforms, all have decided to build out God-like super-computing powers, and this makes you bearish?

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Chris Camillo

@ChrisCamillo

4 months ago

Wall Street logic right now: punish Big Tech for “wasting” capex on AI, punish SaaS because AI will replace them, and punish GPU manufactures for selling the chips that power the “waste.” 🤔

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