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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Didn’t see those.
Did see Speed 2, and that belongs on the list as well.
I’ll say this, the bulk of movies are just like short versions of these new streaming TV Shows.
Terrible isn’t bad enough, Midway, In Harms Way, Dunkirk, 1917, each one terrible in the same way. Utter Trash.
Try Rifftrax for those cinematic disasters.
Pluto tv has the Rifftrax channel.
I suppose you could dose the AI with a database of platitudes catalogued by things like “mood”, “attitude” and “wokeness” and synthesize a dialogue based on what comes out. If the special effects are dazzling enough, no one will notice.
I’ve got $2,797,800,564 that says he’s wrong (Avengers: Endgame)
Sounds like a moneymaker to me !
The money grab for monetizing everything has ruined entertainment.
In the late 1970's overseas AFRTS had a "level devil" on their feed to prevent the blaring commercials. It's not hard to do. Advertisers here put the kibosh on volume level control because they wanted to wake up grandpa on the sofa when their commercials came on. I remember that we once had a TV that had a volume level limiter control option in the sound menu.
I hardly watch cable at all now courtesy of Roku. TCM was the main channel.
I know a young man who gets paid for making Tik Tok videos. The attention span of the yutes of today is not long enough to watch a whole movie.
I remember that we once had a TV that had a volume level limiter control option in the sound menu.
Our TV had knobs and the control mechanism was us kids!
It’s been nearly 20 years since I’ve been to a movie theater. I have no plans on ever going to one again. I also haven’t watched any movies released during that time frame on other platforms. Hollywood had been dead to me for almost 20 years and will remain dead.
You can’t beat mother nature. It’s called entrophy. It set in the movie industry years ago. The never-ending downhill slide. Color it anyway you want. It doesn’t matter once the rot sets in. The moving finger, having writ, moves on...
Do we get our own month to celebrate its demise?
yeah, i’ve been predicting the demise of the movie industry for months now: they were headed downhill anyway by producing nothing but propaganda and utter dreck (really, making movies just for themselves and not their customers), but covid polished them off by putting the theater chains into bankruptcy and shutting down all production ... people found out that there was plenty of other entertainment options, and once they broke the addiction of “hey, let’s go to a movie and dinner” because they found other entertainment venues they liked (streaming mostly) as well or better, i figured they’d never go back to the theater in numbers that would support the industry ... couldn’t have happened to a better bunch ...
I have greatly enjoyed watching that Woke Fembot at Disney destroy the Star Wars franchise and kill Disney’s billion dollar investment with it. Sure, the new movies did ok at the box office but Disney didn’t pay Lucas all that money just for box office. They were paying for the merchandising and ancillary sales that accompanied the original franchise. Woke Fembot killed all of that.
Now? It took two evil males to resurrect/salvage it and Woke Fembot is fighting against that.
Woke-broke. Its a fact of life that the left hates to deal with.
>>The studio system collapsed
I thought it was busted up by the government as a monopoly
Me either. I do watch racing, poker shows, some gold shows, some animal shows too, but really nothing else but old movies. We should probably cut the cable too
>>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.
And as with music streaming, the bulk of the money (like 90%) will go to the big tech firms and NOT the creator/performer.
Just as anonymous serfs produce all of the content that is seen and shared on social media sites. “We” work for Facebooktubegrammer without compensation.
“Same as the music business.”
Used be to be a tour musician. I did OK until I aged out but there is no industry with greater income inequality than the entertainment business.
Spouse is the sports addict so watches the bulk of the cable.
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