2009 Box office

[Aaron Gerow]

I forgot to ask, but one factor in the over-production of films may be  
the tax code: i.e., how easy it is to write off production costs and  
losses. The fact that investment in film had a faster depreciation  
rate than other investments was one factor in non-film businesses  
putting a lot of money into film in the 1980s (it was a way of  
laundering the gains of the bubble), but does anyone have a sense of  
what's going on now?

Aaron Gerow
Associate Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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