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and much of it falls in-between.
Seeing how some of this sausage is pressed, cooked, packaged, and sold can make you real cynical about how much some of these productions are primarily creative endeavors versus merely slot-fillers on production schedules.
Plus, narrative film and TV productions are heavily reliant upon audience tastes, and many of these productions are focus-tested and previewed to death, that often leads to execs demanding creatively bankrupt but financially sound decisions (cutting the ballad from Disney's "Pocahontas", trying somehow to make "Dreamgirls" less of a musical in post, cutting the entire final half hour out of "Little Shop of Horrors")