CAA‘s Maha Dakhil talked about the “revolution” currently happening in the film business wherein people with talent and drive “are actually really becoming the masters of their destiny.”
“The people who are working at the highest levels are people who are not just performing in movies or showing up and being hired, but are actually really becoming the masters of their destiny,” CAA’s managing director and motion picture agent (she counts Tom Cruise among her clients) said while speaking at the Forbes Iconoclast event in New York last week.
Dakhil pointed to the surprise success of recent horror films Obsession and Backrooms as evidence of this revolution.
“You’re catching the movie business in the middle of a revolution these last few weeks with these horror movies that have driven up the box office week to week and usually there’s a drop in box office,” she said. “The moviegoing habits right now are showing us that the audience is really alive, really there, really connected, and these are not meaningless horror movies.”
And while some might brush the movies off as “horror movies,” Dakhil noted that they represent more for the audience.
