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Lush · 05-19-2009, 05:00 AM

Urrrrrrrrrrgh.

This is the reason why I tell 99.9% of people planning on starting a production company to learn how to crochet instead (unless they're going small, niche and creative). The crisis is bad enough, but Hollywood essentially runs on outdated business models. There's hardly any money for anything good, so you get stuck making straight-to-DVD schlock, while changing media is ensuring that the idea of "big stars" is becoming more and more obsolete - which in turn makes "big blockbusters" trickier to pull off.

It's not nearly as bad as the music business, which basically poured gasoline on itself and stuck a match as a result of greed (yeah, getting rid of singles CD and trying to force people to buy an entire bad album was really, really smart right as downloading gained momentum), but it's bad.

On one hand, you feel bad for the big studios facing these crises, if only because genuinely good films under their wings are going to get their budgets slashed or grind down altogether, on the other hand, enough is enough.

05-19-2009, 05:00 AM	#4
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	Urrrrrrrrrrgh. This is the reason why I tell 99.9% of people planning on starting a production company to learn how to crochet instead (unless they're going small, niche and creative). The crisis is bad enough, but Hollywood essentially runs on outdated business models. There's hardly any money for anything good, so you get stuck making straight-to-DVD schlock, while changing media is ensuring that the idea of "big stars" is becoming more and more obsolete - which in turn makes "big blockbusters" trickier to pull off. It's not nearly as bad as the music business, which basically poured gasoline on itself and stuck a match as a result of greed (yeah, getting rid of singles CD and trying to force people to buy an entire bad album was really, really smart right as downloading gained momentum), but it's bad. On one hand, you feel bad for the big studios facing these crises, if only because genuinely good films under their wings are going to get their budgets slashed or grind down altogether, on the other hand, enough is enough. __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~ Last edited by Lush; 05-19-2009 at 05:03 AM.