Posted on 03/27/2017 11:50:57 AM PDT by drewh
The Los Angles Times Ryan Faughnder reports that the traditional Hollywood film business faces several key challenges as a by-product of disruptive technology and changing distribution methods, resulting in a high level of executive turnover at the major studios as the industry attempts to adapt to evolving consumer tastes.
From the outside, Hollywood looks like a thriving town with massive blockbusters and growing box-office revenue. But pull back the curtain and the legacy movie business is under siege, contributing to the highest level of executive churn in years.
Three of the six major studios Paramount, Sony and Fox have removed or replaced their top executives in the last year. Jim Gianopulos, the longtime head of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, lost his job. Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey was pushed out. Michael Lynton resigned last month as chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Warner Bros., Walt Disney Co. and Lionsgate have also made high-level changes.
The management shake-ups signal wider challenges in the movie business amid fast changing viewer habits. Consumers are going to the multiplex less often and gravitating more to premium television, streaming services and video games. The media companies that own the studios also are grappling with shrinking cable subscriptions as more consumers cut the cord.
Mid-budget movies in particular have been a casualty of the see-it-now-or-see-it-never marketplace. Warner Bros. Live By Night, a gangster movie starring and directed by Ben Affleck, this year grossed a pitiful $10 million domestically on a $65-million production budget. A similar fate befell Brad Pitts World War II drama Allied, a project that Grey touted in presentations to film journalists.
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you could tell DC needs to reboot and fire everyone based on their last feeble attempts.
Why do we even need actors or actresses at all anymore?
CGI can be used to create perfect lifelike simulacrum without all the hassles of pay and catering to their precious egos.
Voices can be computer generated as well, without the need of voice actors.
Soon, Hollywood will realize that this is much more ‘economical’..........................
Hollywood’s Revenues were a pitiful $10 billion last year
videos games ?
$90 billion
Great film, well worth watching, better than 98% of films being produced in Hollywood and once you do your going to want to see other films the lead actors play in because their acting is outstanding.
Yeah, I’ve noticed some American pop songs now starting to copy Kpop, although I can’t think of any songs right off the bat. Most American pop music is now unbelievably pathetic.
TV too
Netflix
Ms Panda and Mr Hedgehog ****
Descendents of the Sun******
Producers and directors often have bigger egos than the actors they hire!
The difference I notice is that for Korean films and TV series, they really put their all into it. The actors work hard, often the accompanying music is of Grammy quality (especially for TV series), and it is just really well put together. They obviously take pride in their work and want it to be “the best.”
As an example, here’s the sound track from “Legend of the Blue Sea.” I find it amazing they put all this work on the music track for a TV series. They obviously had top quality music talent all around working on this series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAMiAmrQzdo
Same for Goblin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0S2KeLD-Tw
Well, going to pure CGI actors would eliminate a lot of ‘friction’....................
I enjoyed both versions — the remake because it hewed closely to the original text, and the John Wayne version because it had John Wayne. John Wayne AND Robert Duvall.
Into the Uncanny Valley Rode the six hundred.
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I didn’t feel that way watching ‘300’ or ‘Beowulf’..................
Writers are getting paid 21% less even though there are far more shows on tv but the series have fewer episodes then in the past. I watch XTV on my ROKU and see shows from the 50’s and 60’s that had 39 episodes. Today you might get 10 to 13 episodes.
Bad shows churned out but there are some really good shows but again only 13 max so people drop off viewing as you do not know when it will come back as there is no traditional season anymore.
I think it would be a financial decision. Have you noticed that at the end of a movie when the credits roll the numbers of compositors, artists, visual effects artists, digitizers, animators, editors, etc there are in a movie with Computer-generated Imagery? There can be lists of 500 people that have to be paid.
For example, the heavy CGI Sci-fi movie “Passengers” had a budget of $110 million while the no CGI movie “Moonlight” which won Best Picture cost $1.5 million to make with just actors and has already grossed $55 million worldwide.
Small budget movies will continue to rely on human actors.
I can think of only a few exceptions, but there are some.
One outfit is run by the Coen Brothers. Their last two films have were brilliant and I think reveal a lot about their setting: Washington, in Burn After Reading, and Hollywood during the Cold War in “Hail Ceaser.” See them if you haven’t already.
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