winner-take-all market nonlinear processes pre film studios film studio films drama
The film industry is a brutally competitive winner-take-all market driven by wildly fluctuating "nonlinear processes".  Box office revenue is highly concentrated in a small number of very successful films, and film industry market share is also highly concentrated in the film studios lucky enough to make such films.  But the market is "extremely volatile" and it is impossible to predict in advance who will become the market winner at any given moment "or how long their domination will last". The dominant films and film studios "change places dramatically and often".
