Regarding Cord Jefferson’s idea of producing twenty $10M movies, Paramount did this in the 1980’s and it worked! “The Magnificent Seven” movies were produced simultaneously for a total of $35M; most were failures but one was Sam Fuller’s “White Dog” and one was “An Officer and a Gentleman”.
This experiment by Paramount, run at the time by Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, has been lost to time, but ...