This is surprising for several reasons.
One is that there is a lot of money out there these days (much of it from foreign sources) to help fund leftist activists, and the left loves their pseudo-documentary propaganda, pioneered by the likes of Michael Moore.
Secondly, by the sounds of it, from a few of the quotes, they are a leftist true believer. People like that don’t usually give up. They’d work for free if necessary. It makes me wonder if they are in to something else, perhaps more radical.
I can say that billionaires tend to not waste their money beyond necessary. Maybe Skoll is finding that he has to use his money and not the house money from the money these films have made and he won’t do that?
In other words, the expense is not warranted for the benefit of trying to change minds any more?
Something else, perhaps more radical.
My bookie took that bet odds are high.