Posted on 07/09/2021 9:18:50 AM PDT by Enterprise
"The movie business is over," Diller said in an exclusive interview with NPR on the sidelines of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, a media and technology conference in Idaho. "The movie business as before is finished and will never come back."
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Hollywood made a treasure trove of movies during the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. Television’s golden age in 50s and 60s did likewise. Screw hollyweird. I’m constantly finding movies and tv programming from this era that are still new to me. When I do watch tv, if it’s not retro antenna tv networks you’ll find me mining YouTube for more lost treasure.
It’s close.
Once movies can be made anywhere by technicians alone, then you can make the 10 minute movies Katzenburg thought were a good idea, or 100-minute whatevers that Dillers doesn’t like, or movies targeted at India or the US. You can endlessly re-work the product in “Director’s Cut” fashion. Think about bombs like the “Love Guru” with Mike Myers. Mike is a funny guy with a string of successful movies, but that one didn’t work and derailed his career. What is you could “reshoot” the movie in its entirety until you get a “Love Guru” that people liked? Cost would be minimal.
Sorry Barry, movie making is alive and well.
It’s the old “Movie Business” that is gone for good.
Lots of very creative stuff is happening all over the place.
Surprisingly, it gets on Corporate screens every once in a vert great while.
Tons on the web, in all kinds of odd places. Don’t forget, even a very good Podcast can have movie elements to it. Give it time.
But movie making is booming.
No different than explaining that Motown’s songs were made on an assembly line.
Physically maybe no, but conceptually yes.
Movies, TV, and computer video streaming are all headed toward government approved propaganda. It will be like the old Soviet Union. Stale and predictable. Old films will be edited or removed. Book burning and on-line books being banned or “adjusted” will be next.
Good riddance.
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“Good, they have only produced crap for years.”
After a particularly harrowing event in my life a friend advised, “One closes and another door opens.” The movie industry is evolving. The reason practically everyone of my generation knew all the names of the big stars is they worked for the studio system. They were managed properties. (Incidentally, you’d never have seen one of them Tweeting or Facebooking anything that wasn’t scripted for them.)
The studio system collapsed and we ended up with a long series of remakes because movies are now so expensive no one would back something experimental or by an unknown author. That is what is going away, the traditional “blockbuster.” But the next evolution is already on the way. Recently a movie shot entirely by an iPhone got an award. This is a wonderful opportunity presented by the growth of technology.
Just like history specials are being supplanted by “The History Guy” on YouTube and Tim Pool is now getting an audience that sometimes exceeds that of traditional media. What comes next will probably be better and cheaper than what went away.
Quick quiz. Name ten actors. Chances are five of them will be from the old studio system and the other five have already come...and gone.
The last good movie made in Hollywood was Porky’s III...
I have a gazillion Blu-rays and DVDs. Most of them are older movies whose stars and directors have since passed on. If they never produced another movie I don’t think it would affect me at all.
Ouch. The college students I read about earlier are going to need a Kleenex subsidy.
Those Master of Fine Arts film degrees can be used to sop up a few tears...
Think how much Justice League was changed from the piss poor theatrical release to the snyder cut.
Porky’s II had to be one of the worst movies ever made.
“Is he saying movie *plots* are now generated by AI (based on the types of plots viewers most like to watch) ?”
I’m guessing from the context that algorithms are being used to make choices about themes, content, casting, plot endings, etc. that are predicted to maximize revenue. AI-generated plots are still absurd, from what I’ve seen.
That explains the Fast and Furious movies.
Scary.
I mean the first one was ok. But you get the feeling they pretty much write the scripts for the latest ones in about 10 minutes.
How about The Room, Birdemic, or Samurai Cop?
Na, it's the "viewers" that have the artificial intelligence.
“.... AI-generated plots are still absurd, from what I’ve seen.....”
Wrap enough special effects, “wokeness” & gratutious nudity around the plot and its a movie market winner !
If it wasn’t for TCM I wouldn’t watch any movies at all
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