Which of the following is not one of the strategies Hollywood studios adopted under the studio system to ensure their movies were successful, according to the lectures and readings in this course?

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Studios often owned and ran theatre chains, forcing the latter to pay for the rights to screen all of those studios' films for the year.

Actors had their careers controlled and managed by the studios themselves, such that some were groomed for stardom while others were forced to play supporting characters for all of their careers.

Above$-$the$-$line talent like actors were signed by one studio to long$-$term contracts that committed them to appear exclusively in that studio's films.

The Big Five studios would schedule the release of their blockbusters around one another so that they never directly competed with one another for moviegoers.