I refuse to support an industry that hates me as an audience member.

@bruceyoungberg6771

3 күн бұрын

TESTIFY !!

@bigtomboye

3 күн бұрын

Exactly 💯

@AnoneemusNoename

3 күн бұрын

EXACTLY. Here is what they need to do to get back to real entertainment as opposed to propaganda most ppl silently boycott. They need to disavow ESG, completely excise any and all of their DEI and sensitivity reading departments, abolish or forcefully break up any internal segregatory communes (sanctioned or otherwise), scale back HR until it's just powerful enough to handle complaints and not responsible for casting etc. and hire some not f*ckin around serious conservative money men and producers that will veto anything they catch wind of trying to force that stuff or related leftwing extremist ideologies into projects. Money talks, bullsh*t walks, and sex(iness) sells (same as ever). No ham planets (unless you're funny and/or have charisma or talent, and no fringe weirdos (unless the prior aside also applies). Only super hot mediocre ppl can get away with just being present while the rest of the production picks up the slack. (

@artfire28

3 күн бұрын

After I've seen Gojira Minus One last year and nearly snubbed by Hollybroke, I've decided to shut my wallet. Now my money belongs to anime streaming and its upcoming films from it and few from South Korea.

@lawrencetalbot8346

3 күн бұрын

This. I’ll watch movies when they come on tv/streaming but 100% done with theaters.

The lady who complained about "old White guys" and not being seen... I hope she stays unemployed.

@jorgem.1564

3 күн бұрын

When my daughter was in junior high and high school I was shocked at her reading lists. None of the traditional classics at all. I didn't recognize any of the books. All female writers, lots of minority focus. Hey I am ok for a few books like that...but all? When she started college I would give her summer reading/father daughter book club for fun. I had to reread some of those classics again. Farenheit 451, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, Catch 22, etc.

@aldunlop4622

3 күн бұрын

@@jorgem.1564 That's where it gets truly frightening. It's just grooming, brainwashing, whatever you want to call it.

@delta-9969

3 күн бұрын

"I can only empathize or care about characters that look like me. Written by authors that look like me. Basically, I just want everything to be a reflection of MEEEEE. Because I'm a pathological narcissist."

@brothatisfunny

3 күн бұрын

​@@delta-9969"we learned that people tend to form conections when seeing someone similar to themselves on the screen, that's why we decided to only show people who look like a majority of our audience as either stupid or evil"

@dbsommers1

3 күн бұрын

"I treat humans like crayons and categorize them by color. To do otherwise would be dehumanizing." This makes perfect sense to the modern leftist.

Hey guys remember that time we bottomed out the industry by driving viewers away with crap content, then went on strike twice and lost our jobs to AI. Good times.

@pistonburner6448

3 күн бұрын

Hey guys, remember that time we kept voting for administrations who served a few big corps (and the behemoth financial institutions who own them all) instead of society, and then we ended up with a decimated industry and competition with only a few big monsters with total control, who no longer even need to compete with quality products as always happens with monopolies, and thus you either work for those few big corps or you need to leave?

@tsnamm

3 күн бұрын

​@@pistonburner6448 If your goal is to try and fundamentally change society, making a profit is not a concern. As long as they keep getting ESD money pushing DEI initiatives, there will be no changes, irrespective of market forces.

@pistonburner6448

3 күн бұрын

@@tsnamm Especially if their financiers, the huge giants don't care about such 'small losses' as they can use the losses to reduce the taxes they pay from their profits they get from elsewhere.

@tsnamm

3 күн бұрын

@@pistonburner6448 Exactly... loss leaders... They really believe in the message, so money is no object. And since they have trillions to play with, they can buy whatever they need, including politicians.

@rhh3828

3 күн бұрын

After posting record losses…

Old white guys have been responsible for most of the great arts and entertainment we have…….or at least use to have….

@claytonbouldin9381

3 күн бұрын

Based on her comment she must be creating a masterpiece that will be embraced by all. 😅

@Khayne

2 күн бұрын

They are also responsible for the utter dumpster fire that is Hollywood today. That's why you never let old people lead for too long. They think about "their legacy" instead of profits, and you get this crap shoot.

@thaynealexander

9 сағат бұрын

Because we make the best stuff.

Hollywood deserves its own Grapes of Wrath being written about it at this point.

@johndurham6172

3 күн бұрын

That would make a great South Park parody.

@RantTheRetort

3 күн бұрын

@@kreese-yi2nb I'm surprised they haven't made a sequel to Babylon...people love seeing the degenerate lifestyle of hollywood..so relatable.

@artfire28

3 күн бұрын

So The Crash is already began. The Depression part 2 is next. Nice!

@briansimerl4014

3 күн бұрын

More like Grapes of Whine.

She did not see herself being represented in the movies as queer and neurodivergent? Yeah, and I don't want to see someone like that represented there as well....

Los Angeles has become unliveable... Outta control crime, homelessness, $3000.00 a month to live in the GHETTO is insane

@sjdrifter72

3 күн бұрын

I left L.A. and moved out of state in 1998 mostly because the once safe neighborhood I lived in became a ghetto with all the riffraff moving in. Sad to say that in my case you can't go home again.

I work in the industry & escaped LA in 2020 (along with more than a few industry friends). Southern CA is such a beautiful patch of this planet & was once chock-full of opportunities; you'd REALLY have to screw it up BAD for people to choose to leave it. They've somehow managed to do just that. Sad.

@cheefkeef8749

3 күн бұрын

You can thank Obama and his trans propaganda mandate.

@Rusty_Shackleford099

Күн бұрын

"You'd have to be the dumbest people in the world to mess this up... And now let's see how you managed to mess it up." - SNL Alex Trebek

@mattdorsey2244

6 сағат бұрын

I left in 2022 after 42 years in the industry. Being around idiots who were having so much fun playing pandemic was more than I was willing to take. The industry is nothing like what it was when I started.

What an horrible industry.

@DavidLLambertmobile

3 күн бұрын

@MelbourneShorts11 I'm 53 and did a few film, TV, media projects since the 1990s. Acting and set work- security 🚔 . I would not advise a younger person to work in the production, film-tv business. US. Cable TV, networks are NOT like 1990s or 2000s. Film studios, streamer networks are going overseas more & more. The $$$ is not what it was; 1980s to 2010s.

@MelbourneShorts11

3 күн бұрын

@@DavidLLambertmobile I’m moved over from Perth w.a to London 2005 and worked for the Uk film and tv Disney itv,bbc industry for four years, 6 pounds per hour 12 minimum. Work dried up every nov-feb…the worse time of year to find work outside of bar work. I went to IT never looked back.

They've shifted to making their movies and shows for "modern audiences", but apparently that's a pretty small percentage of the population. So it's not surprising that the industry is shrinking. Yes, there are lots of other factors, but that's the one that bothers me the most and why I mostly watch older movies and shows.

@pistonburner6448

3 күн бұрын

Who is "they"? Notice how "they" used to consist of far more large companies competing against each other, and above all countless medium and small-sized companies genuinely in the mix too. Now it's just a couple of huge corporations (owned by the same financing behemoths) who control everything, who have not competed on quality of product but they've grown instead by stamping out their smaller competition. Now we have the rules of monopoly, which always means lower quality of product and a destroyed industry: no possibilities for small players to rise.

@pistonburner6448

3 күн бұрын

Haha, no-one can even see my reply unless you switch viewing settings from "Top" to "New"... Google censorship!

@TiaraStarbrighter

3 күн бұрын

The "modern" audience is very gay. very black, and somewhat female if the new casting in Hollywood are to be believed. Star Trek: Discovery was a prime example. The only white guy in the cast (prior to the reveal of Lorca) was gay and married to a more dominant black man. Old fans saw that, saw a masculine black female lead named "Michael" who was Spock's never before revealed human (and more beloved by Sarek) sister and clear self-insert OC and never even bothered to watch. ESPECIALLY since you had to actually pay for the privilege of seeing a beloved franchise sodomized before you.

@AnoneemusNoename

3 күн бұрын

@@pistonburner6448 KZread often takes awhile to update. So long as you never used no-no words/phrases the A.I. generally won't put it's thumb on you.

@pistonburner6448

3 күн бұрын

@@AnoneemusNoename Based on what? What makes you think you have a clue what you're talking about? (You're totally wrong)

I saw 57 movies in the cinema in 2017... now I couldn't be bothered. Most of the films are forgettable.

@RantTheRetort

3 күн бұрын

we looked to rent one last night...and we couldn't find one movie that we were interested in paying more than 5 dollars for. The value for the product just isn't there.

@arcakahn

3 күн бұрын

More like trash.

@thedarknate0845

3 күн бұрын

Yeah I don't go much anymore unfortunately

@jamesburke4358

3 күн бұрын

Never kept count. That would be my number up to 1999. Dropped 50% each year starting in 2000. Probably have not seen 57 total since 2005. 2018-2024 seen about 3, and only Top Gun post 2020. Walked out of Furiousa.

@NoidoDev

3 күн бұрын

Around 2015-2016 the amount of good movies dropped enormously. I kinda forgot that Edge of Tomorrow and Interstellar were that old. The only movie that was great and more recent coming to mind is Alita Battle Angel.

Hollywood Elites have forgotten that can't exist without an audience and those that toil to keep it functioning.

@user-et2fj8xm5l

22 сағат бұрын

@@WhiteDragon689 That goes for most huge companies..

For me, Average Movie Goer White Guy, it's the combo that kills ever going to see a movie in a theater. The ridiculous cost tops it. Gas to get to the theater, cost of tickets, cost of snacks, all of that for two for me and the wife, all so I can sit shoulder to shoulder with people who will likely be on their phone or have brought their shrieking baby with them. And all of that to then hear how I, the cis-white male, am responsible to all the ills of the world, in many, not all, but many cases. No thanks, I'd rather play D&D.

@galetinm

3 күн бұрын

So now we have to have a word for a man who says he is a man?! That's vast majority of men. Don't conform to that language. Lose the cis.

@HK23783

3 күн бұрын

@@WonkoSane-jf4qm Question. Unless, it is a family movie, who the fuck brings their baby or a toddler to a movie theater?

@misterfevillord1588

3 күн бұрын

And even DnD is going crap😂

@bwhere45

3 күн бұрын

@@HK23783I saw bridesmaids in the theater, a family behind me brought their (probably) 10-12ish year old kid to it. People can be just trash.

@rowanhawklan9707

2 күн бұрын

With the caveat that it's AD&D and not 5e.

woke did this to hollywood. they did it to themselves, ive little sympathy, what they do produce is terrible. thats the bad bit, we got nothing to watch

Good. Abandon hollywood. It hasn't been needed for at least half a century

@theevermind

3 күн бұрын

But don't move to my neighborhood. We don't want you here--not until you learn a skill, anyway.

They’ll leave so they can continue to vote Blue? Nah, screw them!

I'd be interested in the ethnicities of those who leave... wouldn't be surprised if most of them are white, because they have/get no chances these days?

@pistonburner6448

3 күн бұрын

I bet California will end up going the way of Rhodesia and South Africa in the long term.

@EnsignRedshirtRicky

3 күн бұрын

When there are no White Males left in the industry then White Females will be next. When both are gone the actual goal of DEI will have been achieved. It is also known as the Great Replacement Theory. Just another diabolical WEF agenda from the Marxists that brought you "You will own nothing and like it" to "you will eat zee bugs", or "live in 15 minute cities".

@haydn-db8z

3 күн бұрын

I actually wouldn't be surprised if most of them are women and POC (people of check boxes), and not just from the entertainment industry. DEI is not moving product right now. And if we do have a recession in the next couple years, the most valuable people will be retained, not necessarily the most diverse.

@jneilson7568

3 күн бұрын

If they start hiring based on qualifications again, or proven track records...this happened already (at a small scale anyway) in the comics industry.

@StephenMykal

Күн бұрын

If you can’t thrive as a white male I don’t know what to tell you. This country was built for your success and I’m sure if you traded places with many people it would be even more clear, which is why it’s such a loud agreement from others, they don’t get to ignore it.

Twenty years ago I would watch 3-4 films in the cinema every month. My average in the last four years is 3 films per year…

@idiot_city5244

3 күн бұрын

I used to see probably 15-20 movies a year. Haven't been to one in nearly 3 years, haha

The reason why people are leaving LA is the studios haven’t put out good products for the audience. It affects profits and salaries. The studios are to blame for the downfall.

I used to think places like the west coast were years ahead of the rest of the country on fashion, trends, and ideas. Now it's the complete opposite and they seem to be around 5 - 7 years behind the rest of the country on most things.

I’m a art director in the key art side of Hollywood and just moved out of Cali this week! Gotta love remote work! F Cali

@kwf484

3 күн бұрын

You art up the woke?

@sjdrifter72

3 күн бұрын

@caseymoore4759 Nothing is wrong with the state of California. It's a beautiful state. The main problem are the people in charge of things over there. If it wasn't so woke, corrupt, and vastly overpriced to live in, I'd move back.

I live in the Bay Area and selling my house and moving to Redding. I will get 6 acres 2300 square foot home inground pool and spa and a huge shop. 535k.

@MrLavajet

3 күн бұрын

@@rmsmann27 Sounds great and I'm happy for you (family and I moved away too). Just don't vote for what you're running from 😉

@sjdrifter72

3 күн бұрын

@@MrLavajet Things have become so bad that I stopped voting, period.

@churchofpos2279

3 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, you are going to get the high property taxes, gasoline taxes, and utility costs. I left California, and my cost of living has dropped by 50%. I hope that you have found your piece of paradise, but I fear it is going to come with a high price tag.

@marcogenovesi8570

3 күн бұрын

@@sjdrifter72 not voting = endorsing whoever wins

@leonreaper90

3 күн бұрын

Don't vote, its giving consent and your power away. Its all B.S. nothing changes. All actors.

"We are union, through and through, all the way to the end!" - The guy that played Hal on Malcolm in the Middle

The bigger stars have been leaving LA for other cities for years. They just commute when new projects come up.

Remember when someone suggested Disney Sparkle? Disney seems to want to be NOTHING BUT Disney Sparkle but insists that everyone consume those products.

Time for REAL jobs

The movies are shit, that is the problem.

Leaving TO WHERE? Where are the studios the talent is being driven to, and where can I watch their stuff??

@darthlaurel

3 күн бұрын

Leaving to ruin other states.

@DaddyWarbucksunlimited

3 күн бұрын

Florida and texas

@bluebomber182

3 күн бұрын

Atlanta probably.

LA as depicted in Futurama has become more real each year!🤣

They did it to themselves.....😂

I can sense the level of entitlement in all their comments. If you're selling entertainment, it's not about YOU, it's about the audience, what sells. It's fine to write stories or make shows about YOU, just don't expect that there's an audience for it. I've written stuff, purely for my own amusement, I don't expect anyone to want to buy it.

Lack of a functioning administration, legal system and regulation leads to a monopoly of big corporations (possibly all owned by the same financial backers), as they devour all opportunities, funding, etc. and none is left for the others. Which was their goal together with the corrupt leadership of the city/county/state who they bribed. That then leads to you either having a job at the big corps or you don't work in that business. And anyone with a basic understanding of economics knows what happens to the quality of the products produced, the industry overall, and money flows under a monopoly. The big corporations which don't compete on quality of product and genuine consumer demand compete on tripping up the competition instead using illegal and nefarious means.

@AnoneemusNoename

3 күн бұрын

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Bring back Cannon films!

@crazyralph6386

3 күн бұрын

Yes! Deathwish, American Ninja, Cobra.

@haveanotherpinacolada

3 күн бұрын

@@crazyralph6386 Bloodsport! But yeah, they knew how to make an entertaining film for cheap.

4:36 What you're describing is exactly what triggered the "web series" boom of the late 2000s. Everyone and their dog was making series's on KZread and other platforms. The Guild and Lonelygirl15 being the most famous of said shows but there were many made well outside the LA "bubble" as well with varied degrees of success and failure. There were 3 problems with this. 1. The peer groups ALL consolidated in LA and the same old same old reigned supreme with all the failed writers in Hollywood dominating the awards they created for themselves and the overall conversation with many of the outsiders just cowtowing thinking that those connections would help them later, they didn't. 2. Netflix happened, nobody from that indie boom were brought along for the ride, (not even Felicia Day,) and the boom went bust for indie web series's. 3. KZread went corporate, then they took a hard left turn politically and everyone who did anything outside the box either got drowned in the algorithm, or were deplatformed entirely. I fully agree with what you guys are saying, but past experience in this space shows that monetizing outside of Hollywood is rare at best for those who do their work on the web because of what has happened to the platforms.

I left Hollywood in September 2019 for a better opportunity in Italy. I miss the energy of the young and hungry creatives willing to donate their weekends to another’s creative endeavors for little to no money. With that, I sadly feel like I left at the absolute best last chance to do so. I played in the system and in the indie scene, and I feel for everyone still fighting the good fight in La La Land.

I used to watch movies in the theaters all the time before the pandemic? Now I hardly do unless it’s a movie I’m interested in. Which is few and far between these days.

I like movies that make me actually feel something, i want connection, i want to pull for a character and root for them. i want to feel empathy for them, i want to recognize shared emotions and experiences with them. whining and protesting by spoiled sheltered middle class activist types does not appeal to me, preaching identity politics does not appeal to me. TELL me a story, SHOW me an experience, NARRATE to me a longing we all feel and share in our souls. yeah modern entertainment is dead, it is devoid of humanity and the human experience.

Being the cynic that I am, I have to assume that LH picked up quite a bit of dirt on industry executives during her 4 years as personal assistant to HW and has used that knowledge to land where she is now.

A lot of talent and experience is being lost to Hollywood, either through dei exclusion or people leaving the industry due to lack of opportunities caused by economic factors.

@AvengerII

3 күн бұрын

It's happening all over entertainment. It's not just Hollywood. Everything is being hollowed-out by ridiculous corporate mandates and very racist policies. They destroy themselves through stupidity and chasing DEI dollars that will cost these industries far more than their souls. They've already lost a significant portion of the audience which they will NEVER get back at this rate. It took decades to get to this point. It will take decades to self-correct but by then Hollywood will nearly totally gone. A bunch of production companies and present-day IP corporate managers will be gone. On the way out already -- Warner Bros, Paramount, DC Comics, Marvel Comics (in all likelihood). ALSO on the chopping block or visibly rusting -- Disney, virtually all legacy television producers and TV networks. We'll see if common sense and sane money management will return. I'm betting I'll be dead before that happens! That's a safer bet than wagering the entertainment and California specifically will get a clue. They're too deep in delusion right now...

@DavidLLambertmobile

3 күн бұрын

You get what you get! 🗣 the rich libs & left wing loonys keep CA & SoCal bad. They can pay the taxes, landscaper, tolls, gas ⛽️, security 🚔 . Where are the poor? Low income? Get $$$ then leave.

I have compassion fatigue

Indie film will not save cinema. It's a pipe dream. Coppola talked about the "Little Fat Girl" theory decades ago and it never came true. All indie film produces are two kinds of filmmakers; A) The rising Sundance stars who get repped by the big agencies that go into the studio system pumping out overpriced McMovies. B) The Neil Breen's of the indie world (If you don't know who Neil Breen is, look him up). Sorry Chris, Alan and Film Threat, the majority of the indie stuff you guys review here on KZread or on your website is unwatchable amateurish garbage. The indie low-budget stuff from the 70's and 80's, I'm talking C and D level stuff, not even Cannon film quality, is far more entertaining and better made than the stuff getting pumped out today. Movies. Are. Over.

@daishikaze3986

3 күн бұрын

Finally someone else said it

@AvengerII

3 күн бұрын

I agree. The films that were considered "Indie" in the 1970s and 1980s (and to a lesser extend, 1990s) are much better than today's "indie films." Quite a few of the films I adore cost less than $10 million to make when I checked the budgets. Even adjusted for inflation (not the outrageous salaries and complicated accounting bloat of today), they're not horribly expensive films by today's standards. The reason why Star Wars/1977 would cost $200 million to make today is terrible money-management and corporate bloat. Ah, if only we knew back then what we appreciate now! There are tons of those current-year indie films on streaming -- paid and ad-supported services. I have no interest in watching most of the films made in the last 15 years. It's still low-cost porn.

@MrPingn

3 күн бұрын

I don't think he means indie exactly like that. Yes it includes those types too. But we also live in an era where private fan projects have humiliated Hollywood. Surpassing them in quality. The Astartes and Corridor Digital short series on KZread is one example. Entertainment doesn't have to be big billion dollar profit products that are attached to corporations. Don't chase Hollywood around when there are other opportunities. If you search for, or make, them.

@NoidoDev

3 күн бұрын

No, I'm sure it can already be done, but it also will become easier with better technology accessible.

@ryanjacobson2508

3 күн бұрын

@@martydmc12 The notion of "indie" got bastardized in the 90's. Before the 90's, there were big studios, mid studios (like Orion and Cannon), and then there was "true" indie stuff that legit was the product of directors and producers who didn't have either the temperament or artistic sensibilities to get involved with a big or even mid studio, nevertheless some of these films did get a theatrical run even in the 80's, when VHS took off. In the 90's, the mid studios largely died off, while the big studios increasingly marketed lower budget non genre films as "indie" films.... Since the 90's, film has been increasingly dominated by corporate monoliths while we are fed propaganda that the late 70's and 80's were a time of superficial and commercialized crap.

The Dream is Dead. Long Live the Dream. 👑

@osaji922

2 күн бұрын

Hey now hey now don’t dream it’s over.

Indie movies usually are garbage. Once every 20 yrs maybe, you get a Tarantino. Now , there are so many outlets to get your project seen. All the fun of finding a great indie film are done. We are year round bombarded with crap.

Over the past few years, I've had a lot of people reach out about "how do I get out? what do you do?" I know a film editor that turned data analyst. I know an animation assistant director that stocks shelves at a grocery store. A knew a story artist that got laid off while on maternity leave. He was so pissed, he left the industry went back to college and got his PhD in psychology. Then I hear from other people who are like "my kid wants to get in the business, what can you tell them?" and a part of me just dies on the inside.

Movies are now trash for the most part.

Many of Blockbuster movies that flopped harder last year 2023 .they didn't do very well. Hollywood is a horrible industry indeed.

Reminds me of the uk car industry in the 70s and 80s.

Only the best of the best, the cream of the crop will get work. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rachel Zegler.

@jhammer4919

3 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 and amanless

@martintimmer8574

3 күн бұрын

Oh,the horror 😂

@carried9130

3 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@lindamagagula7476

3 күн бұрын

​@@carried9130😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂

@haydn-db8z

3 күн бұрын

You win. 🙂

Good for them, save some money and hopefully disperse that echo-chamber...

The G4 documentary brought me here. You guys deserve more views.

If you look at historic domestic ticket sales in the US they peaked in the early 2000s and have been trending down slightly for twenty years. Then they cratered in 2020 and it's unclear whether they'll actually recover. People just aren't going to the movies anymore. Streaming destroyed the economics of hollywood.

isn't everyone leaving the zombie wasteland, formerly known as LA?

@DavidLLambertmobile

3 күн бұрын

In 2024, you do not need to be working & have quality of life to be in NY or SoCal. You can be in a few areas; New Mexico, Miami, Pittsburgh, Atlanta GA, Nashville.

@sjdrifter72

3 күн бұрын

@@DavidLLambertmobile I don't see the appeal of Nashville other than being in the country music business.

Geee its almost like we said the strikes wont end well for actors and writers

The grips and food service should go on strike

I haven't enjoyed movies since the 90's, I just prey that since they ruined all the comic movies that I hated anyways, that maybe they can move onto making some good movies again with more mature themes, but considering they way they disillusioned a pile of consumer pigs at the trough like comic book and Star Wars fans, I don't have faith in their ability to write anything decent anyways, oh well, back to watching old movies again.

The writers, actors, and DGA contracts are up every three years, offset by the IATSE contract every other three years. Therefore, there is a looming potential slowdown or strike every year and a half. The IATSE contract expires at the end of July, and the mere potential of a strike has halted most productions since the actors signed their deal, even though a contract is still in place. Now the holidays are around the corner, so, yeah, maybe 2025 will be better (by which time everyone will have depleted their savings). The actors were probably able to hold out for so long because most lf them have other jobs, ie waiters & bartenders.

You people get what you vote for.....yes YOU PEOPLE 😂

@philyeary8809

3 күн бұрын

@@brianculham1180 voting is myth.

Unfortunately, a bunch of studios have come to Georgia, which sucks. I was passing through a nice small town and saw this monstrosity of a gated area tucked away off a main road. I was sad to see it. I don't know anyone except for wheeling and dealing local politicians that want that crap over here. If they left their LA crazy behind and assimilated into the local culture, that'd be one thing, but they don't.

And cocaine is polluted now

@AnoneemusNoename

3 күн бұрын

They've been cutting it with levamisole for decades now. No way i'm snorting carcinogenic horse antibiotics. I lol'd real hard at all the leftwing extremists that ate up the ivermectin horse paste/dewormer narrative during covid while they all run around their mansions geeked to the tits on blow though smh

Seams to me the people that are "in," making overpriced productions. Being paid most, are not the top of the top. Everyone responsible for The Acolyte and virtually all Disney projects for a good part of ten years, proves they should not have any work in film and television. Anyone who just goes along to keep working is part of the problem. The problem is real talent has been replaced with activisum. True council on boards replaced with yes men and women. Actually more like, Yass, Yass. It's the biggest ongoing joke, that's seriously not funny at all. Hollywood has placed in restrictions that kill all real creativity and is now fast tracking the death of the entertaiment industry, period . With the straight jacket and handcuffs you have to wear to be considerd for Oscar nomination. Real filmakers should withdraw from nomination in protest. The audience are your award. You will make real money by good work, not just pandering to DEI demands. To make garbage agenda flops. Indipendants will rise, big studio's are and will continue to loose billions. They're busy falling in love with the smell of their own farts. Looking in the mirror forgetting it's a funhouse mirror. Fighting litigations they are guilty of, Checking boxes and ending themselves. Star Wars and the MCU are not all they've killed but are just the two largest and formally most profitalbe examples. Lucasfilm as a whole is dead. Not one I'P alive. Disney has killed almost all it's I.P's. No talent to create new I.P's. Nothing to mine Bob, just nothing.

@halstonmann8676

3 күн бұрын

@@colinwest3301 very well said. Thank you.

We stopped going to the movies with the first Deadpool film being the last. We won't support an industry that hates us and we will likely never go back, period.

We are moving our boutique family development & production company (Imagination Bay) to Florida. Our plan is to be out of California by 4th Quarter of 2025. TN & NC are also possible, but as I was born and raised in Florida, it would be great to finally call it home again, after 3 decades living in SoCal and watching it deteriorate.

They must not be allowed to leave the state. Build a big, beautiful wall.

The UK, European and Australian film and TV industries are thriving and bringing out more quality than what is coming out of the USA. Also, it's becoming more apparent that Hollywood is not the centre of the entertainment world and you don't have to go there to create something that will get a worldwide audience.

I moved out of Hollywood in 2009 and came to Asia to teach and work. There were a lot of work mostly in and coming from China. Many boutique VFX shops opened studios in Beijing like Base FX. Compare to then and now - the work has greatly diminished.

Anyone who's been around the industry knows it's about connections. Usually threw late nights

I left LA more than 10 years ago. Best decision ever !!!

Wow, I feel so sorry for those Hollywood writers. Perhaps if they went back to writing entertaining material they could sell more movies and tv shows.

I am not sure why, in 2024, that film and TV production needs to be so concentrated in one area of the country. With technology being more accessible than ever, and the ability of post production work to be done remotely, more film and TV should be made outside of Tinseltown. No region of the country should have such that much of a market share when it comes to film and TV production. Having such a creative endeavor more dispersed across the country not only leads to more creative diversity, which is the only type of diversity we should care about, but it also prevents the industry from being hamstrung by ideological concerns of a particular area of the country.

It was refreshing to see Beverly Hills Cop 4 yesterday. At least, it reminded me of good old days. Woke stories and unoriginal ideas will not bring in people to spend money. In addition, costs of living don’t help.

that end bit where alan describes how the movie workers get paid sounds reeeeeallly familiar to someone who does work in advertising

Even those alt locations have taken a big hit as well. I have a cousin in the Atlanta area who used to be a boom operator. After the Vid and strikes there just wasn't the work, so he moved over to long haul trucking to keep his family supported

Long overdue. With the tools readily available to everyone with a computer, there's no reason for artists to go to Hollywood (or NY) and plenty of economic reasons not to go.

So many good kids go to Hollywood with their dreams fixed on being the next Harvey Weinstein or Leslye Headland. What a shame if these honorable dreams should go unfulfilled.

@Mouse_Metal

3 күн бұрын

The movie 8 mm depicted Hollyweird too accurately.

It's all collapsing into the same pit dug for us! That did not work out the way they thought it would!

I'm proud not paying Hollybroke anymore after last year I've seen Gojira Minus One.

Don't forget competition from foreign markets as well as AI, Regulation and DEI. I really enjoy Korean storytelling.

When the tent poles consistantly lose, it forshadows the whole of Hollywood has to adapt to a much smaller, flatter hierarchy.

Alan, grab yourself some reading glasses, please! Love you guys.

This story is about 15 years too late.

Currently the money laundering nature of the system, there's no way films can be affordable to make or watch other than streaming.

I refuse to invest in anything since CANNON no longer matters

Doesn't help that we radically over-graduate film students relative to demand.

Who needs theatre experience when you have your own big ass tv at your home with netflix appletv prime subscriptions also youtube and twitch for live streaming entertainment

This is sad and horrible

Hollywood should be not be monopolized in LA. It should be broken up and scattered in regions throughout the US allowing for more creativity and actual diversity.

I heard State Farm is pulling completely out of the state unless they can raise homeowners insurance by 30-50%, I imagine other insurers are feeling it to. Newsome really sucks.

They all left the hive of scum and villainy and their lives improved. Amazing.

If all this is true you would think they would be courting us fans, not hating on us. I am buying very carefully, right now.

It's become a gig economy which is sad.

I think we're very near a renaissance. All it would take is a few ambitious indie filmmakers to come together to start a new center of tv and movies somewhere new. It takes Hollywood so long to pivot that this might be the prime to strike. LA used to be one of the spots for comedy, now it's Austin Texas. No reason why the same couldn't happen to film.

That newspaper, lol!

You get more entertainment for your money in almost any other media. That alone should be a red flag for change, but somehow its gotten so much worse

Why is "Supply vs. Demand" such an advanced concept for people in the entertainment industry? 30K people going for the 10K jobs means that the industry will pay less for those positions and they'll still get filled. When the industry is essentially unable to create content which people are willing to pay significantly for (aka - just wait for streaming), it makes a very difficult operating environment. The industry thought that they could "layer on" streaming revenue on top of their existing revenue streams, not realizing that entertainment is the most "luxury of luxuries" in a bad economy, and as a result cannibalized their existing model. Then add in that would rather preach their agenda rather than entertain, and they've taken the flamethrower to their entire industry.

I've noticed a trend recently in actors' auditions. Some of the notices are now saying that the actors don't have to be off-book for the audition - that cold reads are OK. That has never been the norm as far as I can tell. Actors have always been off-book for auditions unless the audition is labelled specifically a cold read situation. Why the change? Is this the soft bigotry of low expectations? Is this a merit-based way of weeding out pretenders?

@carried9130

3 күн бұрын

Sure looks like no expectations held. Guess it's too much to expect people making millions of dollars to have basic reading skills, with salaries possible from money contributed by people who aren't loaded but can read.

@somercet1

3 күн бұрын

Could you explain cold reads and off-book for everyone else? Cold reading is reading any material cold, on first sight, but what is off-book? Speaking the part without looking at a script?

@tonyfoggia5086

3 күн бұрын

@@somercet1 You're correct on both counts.

Ain't gonna be no rebound

It used to be about fun

LA is a sinking ship. That's why most people are moving to Atlanta and Tennessee.

It’s over. AI is going to replace all of them.

Because the industrial movie making center in CA is dying, would be my guess.