Posted on 07/17/2023 5:56:18 AM PDT by dynachrome
Money is more important…
I would love to go to the magical land of beautiful happy women.
Right!!! It's not that hard. Hollyweird refuses to get it. They deserve absolute collapse.
Perhaps 60 hours of viewing rights can be vended. The first 10% plus 30 seconds viewed of a feature would not count against the 60 hours so viewers aren’t required to pay for duds.
Purchasers of 60-hour viewing rights could check a guide.
Royalties would be say 50% of the 60-hour vend price with fully viewed features getting higher percentages and partially viewed features smaller percentages. Percentages would be less for shorter features.
Tik Tok is filled with Darwin award nominees to amuse us. Don’t need Hollywood.
Hollywood has already largely collapsed....at least in Hollywood. Its too expensive to make movies there for many. Thus they go to other places like Canada, Georgia, etc etc. They also crank out one woke flop after another and lose their shirts after spending a vast fortune to make such schlock. It can’t continue.
Well ... darn. LOL
Is there a downside?
Who cares, Korean movies are more interesting and fun.
Hollywood isn’t the snakehead. One World Order, Illuminati, Antinomianism, Obama.
Yes the lefts agenda pimps are at risk not a bad thing.
George Hamilton. O.K., gotta ask. Log-cabin Republican?
Computer generated imaging (CGI) is killing the traditional studio formula for making movies. Green screens are using computer technicians rather then the old school union studio workers. There’s also studios in Orlando, Atlanta, and Canada that compete against Hollywood. Bollywood in India is now the largest studio system in the world. Every state government has a film department that is trying to get film revenue from movies being made in their states. This Hollywood strike is to little to late to save the the old studio formula of making movies. As a matter of fact, it might be the nail in the coffin to the California movie industry.
Interesting ideas. I don’t pretend to know enough about the industry to have a solid opinion of what, exactly, to do. But given great uncertainties and rapidly evolving technologies, I do think the baseline objective should be an open system that isn’t subject to monopoly or cartel control.
The film industry has always had a dark side, and fundamental structural issues have always been an important part of the story. I suppose the greatest common denominator since the earliest days has been the ability of the people with money — the investors, the big studios, now the streamers — to dangle big paychecks and buy out everyone else.
Ah, yes, the free market. But then people who have been bought find out that they are owned. And too many (not all, but far too many) of the hugely rich execs have been corrupt. Excessive power and lack of accountability can have that effect.
I’m not a reflexive union supporter, but unions can be an important tool in some situations. Hollywood? Is there a more toxic work environment in the U.S. today? Abusive and predatory treatment of actors and crew? Lack of accountability because most jobs are short term gigs, everyone is desperate for their next role, and the suits can make or break careers on a whim? Some of the suits abuse their power, and a toxic industry culture enables and protects the abuse. SAG-AFTRA should be far more aggressive on these fronts.
These battles have been waged before. The big studios used to have the dictatorial control that the streamers are gaining today. The studio system was broken. Then there were the struggles between the big studios and the theaters, and perhaps the same lessons apply now; maybe there should be an antitrust wall between production and distribution.
In the “good old days,” which had plenty of problems as well, consumers ultimately ruled. Movies had to attract actual consumers to invest an evening and the price of a ticket in seeing X. Streaming has vastly eroded that consumer power, and a lot of the power of the streamers rests on their ability to silo their proprietary content, including the huge libraries that made the big legacy studios hot buyout targets for the streamers. Maybe all content on all platforms should be universally available on pay per view, so that I don’t have to subscribe to Apple to view the two or three good movies in the Apple silo that I actually want to watch. I.e., let me be a ticket buyer, not a subscription holder. That might go a long way in restoring the balance of power.
I do understand that the abuses get a disproportionate share of the attention. But the industry has a structure that is open to abuse, and the bad actors routinely avoid accountability. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Gee, that’s too bad.
Not worth saving anyway.
“George Hamilton. O.K., gotta ask. Log-cabin Republican?”
I don’t know, but for some reason, I always liked him.
I always liked George Hamilton also. If he is gay, at least he seems happy about it.
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