Posted on 12/26/2024 10:16:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Film production has failed to bounce back after major strikes last year, and competition from other locales has gotten stiffer.
Paul Audley, the organization’s president, said in the report that even a few months ago many had thought they would see gains — hoping for a rebound from what he called “the strike effect.”
“Instead, we saw a pullback and loss of forward momentum, heading into the fall season that will make or break the year,” Mr. Audley said.
Since May 2023, when the Writers Guild of America strike began, motion picture and sound recording jobs in the Los Angeles area have declined 15 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For Deborah Huss Humphries, the past few months have been particularly challenging.
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An industry that decided to portray white folk as dunces, uncool, unhip, and racist buffoons now can’t figure out why nobody is buying what they’re peddling.
It’s an industry full of really stupid people.
Even with the payoffs from their friends in the democratic party, they took a big hit during the Scamdemic. A good portion of the US population learned they really don’t need the banality they produce to be entertained.
GAME SHOWS ARE MUCH CHEAPER & NOT many writers are involved.
ANOTHER INSTANCE of the UNIONS DESTROYING MORE THAN THEY GAINED.
THE NEW GAME SHOW “THE FLOOR” is rather interesting.
Venture Capital is buying paramount. The part is over boys, now the vultures are going to run the business! Turn out the lights California, the gravy train is over…..
Film production has failed to bounce back after major strikes
What went wrong Moe?.
Filming is being done in Canada and Georgia at Tyler Perry’s studio
Awww. Maybe hollywood should try more DEI and sex dysphoria. Go hard.
They are lazy. It’s just repeat the same stories over and over.
DC is on its 4th reboot of Superman.
Most writers will tell you there are only about 10-20 types of stories. The characters and situations might change but that’s about it
Like music. Only so many notes.
Georgia needs to get that leftist scum out of their state. Let them go back to Commiefornia.
Too many tax breaks for the rich. The solution is to heavily tax the film industry.
This works every time liberals try it. Fixes everything.
Even though Hollywood indisputably produces the noblest art in the history of humankind and greatly deserves the wealth and power it has attained, it just cannot compete with the even greater worthiness of the government of California and its highly effective use of tax revenues.
Hollywood needs to go back to the basics and come up with actual hits like “Barbenheimer”.
Last time I was at a theater was in 2010 to see the remake of True Grit. Before that it was Master and Commander, and Saving Private Ryan.
Had a chance to see on TV a 2011 remake of The Three Musketeers but it was so silly, a remix of fantasy, Chinese kung fu in Paris, copying Mission Impossible and general stupidity.
So to cleanse my mind of such nonsense I have pulled out my DVDs of Zulu Dawn, Zulu, UNTAMED(Susan Hayward was HOT!) Khartoum, SIMBA and other great movies from the 1950s and 1960s.
If you got a DVD collection like mine you don’t need modern silliness that airheads today watch.
***GAME SHOWS ARE MUCH CHEAPER***
True but you have to show people WINNING! Remember the Payola scandal of the 1950s?
Painful? Just horrible.
“Hollywood, Games and Movie companies are ill prepared for the rise of hobbyist and small companies that will put out movies and games out of their garages.”
^^This^^
Hollywood has become the buggy whip industry at the onset of motorized vehicles.
Man against man.
Man against nature.
Man against himself.
Man against God.
But oh what a variety of things you can do inside those four frameworks.
If you are not a lazy unimaginative hack.
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