Posted on 05/24/2025 4:08:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
...Losers.
Hollywood is doing the same thing with movies.
The bigger problem here is that its just no longer financially viable to produce movies in CA anymore.
Hollywood jobs are the jobs I don’t mind seeing AI take. All indications are they are extremely vulnerable to AI competition. Let’s see: $100 million to make a movie with actors and sets or pay someone $10,000 to write a series of prompts to generate a movie with AI. If I was Hollywood, I’d be scared to death.
Most of the jobs in Hollywood are behind the camera and are mostly blue collar guys who wear work boots. These are the names who scroll up in the credits after the producer and actors and it takes ten minutes to read all of them.
In the 1960s, also with television.
From the 1990s onward, first run Hollywood movies compete with every movie ever made.
they voted to offshore everyone else’s livelihood, but sounds like they don’t like it very much when it happens to them ... maybe they shouldn’t have always voted for all of those “progressives” for all of those decades ... now it’s too late, though perhaps they can learn to code or mine coal ...
““I more or less have given my career, my life, to this industry,”
dumbarse: you should have made them pay you instead of “giving it away” ... what? .. oh, they DID pay you? ... then you didn’t “give it away” ...
“Detroit did it to themselves by building cars no one wanted.”
indeed, land boats that quickly fell apart, had bad brakes, terrible suspensions, etc. ...
Nothing new. I recall in the 1980s, some films that took place in new york city were actually filmed in Canada. Being a native new Yorker myself, it was easy to tell. Nothing on the screen remotely looked like any part of new york city.
Even so, major blockbusters that defined the era from Jaws to E.T. to Back to the Future…were made primarily on Hollywood studio lots and produced in Hollywood editing rooms…
San Andreas… Alexandra Daddario!
AI will and is replacing background actors and set designers and those that build sets and lighting and sound.
You just need to be able to describe a scene and in minutes see the result.
More time to get the detail right.
Writers look to already be using software that has generic scenes as the tv and movie plots have the sameness, similar to the music industry now.
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Kim
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-kJESXrHut0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxTkEWtR8Zs
Rooster vs Baby
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SxEk3FUKWZY
POOF | AI Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SgA6ymPuc
Examples from VEO by Google showing how detail AI images are getting to the real thing.
https://deepmind.google/models/veo/?utm_source=ai.google&utm_medium=referral
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - 1950s Super Panavision 70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYAtAv04dd4
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LoL at the first set of your links. Indeed it is a conundrum. But the limitations of AI do become apparent with those most acquainted with it I think…
Tapping into nostalgia may prove to be extremely profitable in the coming years…as a sort of a backlash.
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One budget document viewed by The New York Times showed the cost of a seven-person set operations team — positions known as “grips” — to be roughly $59,000 for a 30-day shoot in Budapest…Because of health care, pension and other expenses, it costs about $53,000 to employ just one senior-level grip in Los Angeles for the same time frame…
How much of that is because of union rules and contracts?
Someone should make a movie about the down fall of Hollywood.
Im reminded of the 1961 movie, West Side Story. Only the opening, I think the first 10 or 15 minutes, of the movie was shot on location in New York City (in Manhattan on West 67th street and east 110th Street: which was the cement playground area).
The remainder of the movie, most of it, were all shot on a Hollywood soundstage. Even though the movie was filmed and released years before I was born (and West 67th was demolished), growing up in New York City in the 1970s, there were lots of other real life areas in the city that still looked exactly like how it looks in the movie.
Watching the movie today, even though i know the scenery switches from a real life New York city to a fake New York City, it’s still pretty difficult to tell exactly when and where in the movie the real NYC ends and the fake NYC begins. The Hollywood set designers of West Side Story really did a most excellent job of making a fake NYC set in a Hollywood sound stage look truly authentic.
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