Make a Movie

You own the studio. Greenlight movies and TV shows, cast them from a deep roster of stars, directors and composers, then push them through every release window on the calendar.

Build the slate

• Pick Movie or TV Show, set genre and subgenre, an age rating (U, PG, 12, 15, 18) and a runtime slider — plus an episode count for shows.
• Cast up to three leads from 44 actors, hire one of 22 directors and one of 16 composers. Fees and star power drive your budget; talent and genre fit drive the quality score.
• Start a new franchise or add to one you already own.
• Movies take 8 weeks to produce. TV shows take 4 weeks plus one week per episode.

Work the release windows

• Send movies into a 6-week theatrical run with decaying weekly box office, or premiere shows on TV for one week per episode.
• Or skip the run: go straight to DVD, or straight to your streaming service.
• Theatrical and TV titles reach their DVD window 4 weeks after the run ends; streaming releases are available for DVD immediately. Bundle a franchise's discs into a collector's boxset.

Take over the town

• Six rival studios greenlight and release their own films and shows and build their own franchises.
• Buy the rights to a franchise and every released title in it becomes yours — or buy the whole studio and take its entire released library.
• Run your own streaming service: add your finished titles for free, licence rival titles for a small fee, and watch subscribers and weekly revenue track your library's size and quality.

Advance one week at a time, or four at once, and read the studio log to see where the money went.