Hollywood MUST change to survive!
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, September 27, 2010 20:21
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The economy is very different now. Sure, we can still have our "Avatars" but either Hollywood pumps out severely less movies that have a guaranteed return (read: loud, stupid, funny), or they return to a pre-Jaws time where small movies made money BECAUSE they weren't blockbusters with blockbuster price tags!!!
Guys, you CAN make a quality movie for less than $200,000,000, remember????
How much did Browncoats: Redemption cost to make again?
Imagine if the had a measly quarter mill to work with...
The laughing Chrisisall
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The year so far has been very disapointing, I've only seen one flick, the "A-Team". Nothing else has interested me, and the "A-Team wasn't even that good. "Hereafter" looks good but that seems to be the only flick that interests me at the moment. Hollywood's job is to provide entertainment for billions, for them to survive they have to make movies and TV shows people (consumers) want to see. Movie theater ticket sales are down, but it's not just because of the price.
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Hollywood seems to be obsessed with remakes, and chick flicks. Then I remember Studios are a business, and remakes attract both young audiences, and fans of the original(If they are lucky) making them profitable.
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More to the point, remakes are safe. Studios/networks know exactly what they're getting (i.e., something that has already succeeded), so there's less perceived risk.
The problem isn't with writers not coming up with anything new, it's with the studio/network suits not buying anything new. Only people who can actually afford to be creative are people who've already found enough success to pay for their own stuff (Cameron, Jackson, Spielberg, etc).
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Quote:Not that it will help Browncoat Big Damn Fan Films, Inc to sell more DVDs of Browncoats: Redemption, but Hollywood might have much smaller revenues in ten years.
Originally posted by chrisisall:
How much did Browncoats: Redemption cost to make again?
Imagine if the had a measly quarter mill to work with...
Quote:The Big Six studios are Fox, Time Warner, Sony, NBC-Universal, Paramount, and Buena Vista/Disney. www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/ Occasionally there is a freakish film like Twilight Saga: Eclipse that puts the spotlight on a mid-size studio but most big revenue films are made by the Big Six.
Even with declining sales, DVDs still provided the 6 major studios with slightly over $16 billion in 2009, and constituted their main source of revenue. But what of Hollywood’s imminent future? South Korea demonstrates that a DVD market can be wiped out within a year or so of broadband improvements that make it possible for anyone to download a free movies in 15 minutes from the Internet. So quivering on the edge of this digital abyss, the studios remain paralyzed by their fear of losing their once almighty Wal-Mart accounts. - www.edwardjayepstein.com/Quivering.htm
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Cybe, you may be too young to remember, but I, the old-time cinema historian will break it down for you & everyone else.
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
The problem isn't with writers not coming up with anything new, it's with the studio/network suits not buying anything new.
In the *OLD* days (pre-Jaws), I used to go to the movies every week. The movies changed that often. Most movies never saw a run past that time since the limited # of prints had to be distributed to the secondary & tertiary markets. Films were inexpensive, since no one expected anyone to see them more than once. Many films were free to have not-happy endings, if they wanted. Creativity was rampant.
Films like Vanishing Point, Clockwork Orange, Harold & Maude, Silent Running, A Reflection Of Fear, Four Flies On Gray Velvet, Last Tango In Paris, Legend Of Hell House and the like really couldn't be made today.
We need a return to smaller films IMO. A million to make, a million peeps see it, money effectively doubled. If 10 million or more see it, an instant goldmine.
This is what the suits have lost total sight of.
The want The Big Win every time out now.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Mr. IsAll, a question or two?
In a year, how many low-budget movies do you see?
How many "blockbusters"?
If you see more big movies then small, you're part of the problem. If more small then big, you're part of the solution.
The best TV isn't on network, and the best movies aren't from Hollywood.
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Chris, there are still many films like that being made today, they just don't get the exposure because they are produced and distributed by independent companies or come from foreign markets. It's the Big Six (or however many) that cling to the notion that every film has to be a blockbuster and spawn sequel after sequel. These are the same suits who think it is smart to remake a great, but very recent, vampire film called "Let the Right One In."
I don't care how good the American remake is, I will not pay money to see it, and probably won't bother even if I could see it free. What we need to do is stop paying money at the theaters, or buying DVDs, for films that are nothing more than slight entertainments designed to extract maximum dollars from our pockets. If we don't then we have no one else to blame.
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Quote:I see anything that happens in space, or has good martial arts in it- preferably both (see: Serenity).
Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
Mr. IsAll, a question or two?
In a year, how many low-budget movies do you see?
How many "blockbusters"?
"Moon" was rented, then purchased new.
I rented "District 9"- didn't care for it, but appreciated the novelty & effort.
Bought "Ip Man" new from Hong Kong.
"Terminator: Salvation" I bought used.
Bought "Dollhouse: Season One" used.
Purchased "Max Headroom" new.
Purchased "CHUCK" season 3 new.
Purchased "Browncoats: Redemption" new.
EDITED TO ADD: Bought the old "Planet of the Apes" series used- receiving it soon. (WOOOO HOOO!)
That's my recent history, does it profile me one way or another (Honestly curious)?
Quote:I disagree (CHUCK).
The best TV isn't on network
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I don't care how good the American remake is
OUCH! Sorry to add that I rented the Gibson "Edge Of Darkness" when I could have maybe found the original at a local art-house DVD rental place.
Hook on that one was it was filmed right where I live, so it was cool to see the locations.
But SO Hollywood....
The laughing Chrisisall
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