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Molly Edwards

Despite The Electric State's $300 million price tag on Netflix, the Russos say it "doesn't make a ton of sense to continue to spend that way"

The Electric State.

The Russo brothers' latest Netflix movie, The Electric State, came with a reported $320 million budget – but the directors aren't actually sure that kind of spending makes sense for streamers.

"They ascribe the same algorithmic attention to something they spend a lot of money on as something they spend very little money on," Joe Russo reflected to The Hollywood Reporter on high budget streaming movies. "By that model, you should probably just make everything for a medium number, right?"

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