Dreamworks CEO offered $75million for three extra episodes of Breaking Bad

Ken.

http://www.joe.ie/entertainment/television/video-dreamworks-ceo-offered-75million-for-three-extra-episodes-of-breaking-bad/

If Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had had his way, Breaking Bad wouldn’t quite be finished yet and everyone involved in the show would have come away with a few extra quid while they were at it.


In a conference for TV and entertainment content market MIPCOM in Cannes yesterday, Katzenberg revealed that he had offered the show’s creators $25million per episode to make three episodes after the finale and he had a rather novel idea about how he was going to make the money back.
As he explains in the video above, Katzenberg wanted the episodes delivered in six-minute segments that would then be made available to consumers for a small fee on a daily basis, with the entire three episodes costing approximately $15 after consumers had paid 50 cents per day for 30 days.


It all sounds way too complicated for us, but Katzenberg, it seems, was deadly serious, telling The Guardian: “My idea was literally that you’d pay 50 cents a day for 30 days, so it would be $15, and I actually think there are 10m people around the world that would have done that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GptPIAjisS0

I'd pay.


Having obviously put a lot of thought and effort into allowing the show to draw to a conclusion when it did, Vince Gilligan and company turned Katzenberg’s proposal down, but it does go to show that the Dreamworks chief sees a future in charging consumers for bite-sized content, which we’re not too sure we’d be so keen on.

Mr Freeze

I'd probably pay too, but glad they didn't do this.

Monkey Allen

This would be a massive mistake for Vince Gilligan and I wouldn't watch it unless it was reviewed as worthy enough for the show. At which point I would find a, most definitely available torrent for it.

Hope they don't do this.

Ken.

I'm glad also that it's not happening. But the idea is out their now and could set a precedence. Someone sometime will take the cash.

jaykhunter

The monetization model sounds HORRIBLE and there's no way I'd be paying for minutes of footage. If you said 2 euros per episode as a digital download, maybe then. But doing such a money-orientated scheme would've really gotten a negative reaction and made me think less of the Breaking Bad crew.

Why the CEO would think that every person who watched the BB finale would fork over money multiple times for extra episodes is beyond me though. I'd imagine we're looking at maybe 3 million; especially since the arc is done. Sure the story really ended 2 episodes before the finale, and the final two were a wrap-up.

Neil McCauleys Cooler Brother

Greedy capitalist. I'm am now finished with Dreamworks.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Neil McCauleys Cooler Brother wrote: »

Greedy capitalist. I'm am now finished with Dreamworks.

good on ya

evil bastards expecting to fork over millions of their own money and trying to make something back out of it! and forcing everybody at gunpoint to pay for it too, that was the worst part of it.

Neil McCauleys Cooler Brother

"Their own money". Like it, centurion, like it.