And keep your grandmothers away from Compay Segundo. D.C. A recent Saturday matinee was sold out, and the audience sat through the closing credits the way they do when they have been affected. Despite the glamour, feature-film production is not a great business. Production and marketing costs are high and growing, profits are thin by the standards of other industries, and the studios are now looking for new ways to cut costs and limit risks. One would think that documentaries are an obvious low-cost alternative, given their track record in recent years.
Documentaries are cheap to make.
Given the lack of big promotional pushes, the argument that documentaries don't make big money is circular. You may reach him by clicking here.