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To: pissant

Yes indeed, Hollywood might be the next to fall. What with the advance of technology, it is now feasible to make high quality movies outside of the "industry" and give wide distribute them. More independents can get into the act and break the Hollywood strangle hold on film entertainment.


73 posted on 12/28/2004 6:16:06 PM PST by Pittsburg Phil
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To: Pittsburg Phil

Modern Independent film making has been around since the 1950s and the industry actually thrives on it.


75 posted on 12/28/2004 6:18:57 PM PST by Borges
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To: Pittsburg Phil
That's exactly what we are planning to do. We are going to shoot our Western in high definition digital video using dockable cameras with video saved directly to hard drive in the field. This can be digitally edited and transferred to 35 MM film if desired or burned directly to DVD. Even Lucas is now shooting in video and transferring to film.

There is indeed a revolution underway in movie making. Independents are now getting their hands on some wonderful technology and independent film making is the growth market. Independents can make movies on micro budgets.

Hollywood is not making mid-budget movies. They are rolling the dice on blockbuster attempts using $100+ million dollar budgets. They are also losing a hell of a lot of money doing it.

It's all about "deals" in Hollywood. Movie stars and directors are called "attachments" now. Note the language of lawyers. They think if they blow enough cash, filling the screen with big names, every fool in American will drop $9 to see it, without regard to the quality of the story.

It is gratifying to see these ruthless people losing hundreds of millions of dollars paying self-absorbed, loony actors $15 million apiece to make movies which lose money by the trainload.

Hollywood is a land of dead people walking around. It's a world of dinosaurs, not innovators. The old model is broken and they don't know what to do.

93 posted on 12/29/2004 12:06:42 AM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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