#movie investors

[rocknroll2024]

Country music rocks my world!!!

[akkivee]

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[erazonpo3]

Still thinking about Diantha's filmography and her career in general, based on my headcanons I see her having two eras, the first being when her parents were more in control and then when she severed tied with them and started going in her own direction.

I figure she started out with a lot of period pieces a la Room with a VIew, adaptations of plays etc, and then of course I associate her with a lot of Audrey Hepburn's works (which is canon in and of itself) but also An American in Paris, 'classic hollywood' musical type stuff. It's the sort of stuff that always gets a lot of praise but also cemented her image of a pure ingenue, and I think at this point she's feeling stifled at being typecast

Forward to when she takes more control over her career and starts to take on more subversive, mature roles; I think a Carol equivalent marks the start of this and her name becomes associated with more artsy and dramatic roles. Like I see her being the kind of actor who wants to use her name to boost directors she thinks need more spotlight, and would prefer to take a chance on a commercial flop so long as she thinks it's challenging her or saying something interesting.

Tangentially I see Pokestar studios as being the equivalent of hollywood blockbuster stuff, lacking any of the cinematic prestige associated with old hollywood or oscar bait, so I imagine Diantha wouldn't want to be caught dead in one of those movies but at the same time, if finances were dire enough...

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[jedarar]

i Robot #predection #movies #scifi

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

The longer this movie goes, the more I can see this lady's business model really is poor. It's a weird thing, we're meant to root for her. But it is ostensibly bad. No online presence, cash only, hand makes ornaments for a few people, doesn't do much for the rest of the year (who is buying easter decorations?).

[gcsly]

tmrw we will examine why pierre is always yapping abt not being able to mend fences w esteban and how some relationships are just irreparable while esteban is introducing ryan reynolds to netflix aka ryan reynolds’s number one source of income

[oswednesday]

[recognized a single still frame from megan is missing on sight] do you think its possible for me to be loved romantically long term

[rocknroll2024]

Being a superhero is a lot of fun!!!

Chris Hemsworth

[tomwambsmilk]

Choosing to believe that the events of season 4 of Barry and season 4 of Succession are happening in the same universe at the same time

[gentlemans-code20]

#MotionPicture - Arbitrage

Arbitrage is a 2012 American crime drama film directed by Nicholas Jarecki and starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth and Brit Marling. Filming began in April 2011 in New York City. It opened in U.S. theaters in September 2012.

[katyspersonal]

Movies should return to looking like cheap theatre plays

I feel like the biggest problem with the decline of quality of the movies is capitalism. I mean, obviously, but I just want to talk about it a bit. The huge problem with the movies is that they cannot be treated like a usual job; a company that creates them HAS to show the positive dynamics in profiting - more money with every next year. So they can convince their investors to stay and still pay them. Because otherwise they might not have enough money to MAKE more movies!

That’s why the quality of the products is dropping - to lessen the production costs. That’s why you often can see the case of ‘but this is a completely original story, it did not NEED the name of [popular brand] to be attached to it’ - to sell more tickets, because investors decided that original concept would not bring as much money (the recent animated movie about Buzz Lightyear off the top of my head. Same with endless reboots that are so tone-deaf to the original it’d be more honest to just make new universe and characters entirely.

Like... in a way, making movies is just a job like others. It is entertainment at least, education at most. Except it isn’t because people that make the movies cannot simply earn stable amount of money every year or god forbid earn less than the previous year. Studies just have to violate beloved and classic franchises and violate the art as a concept just to keep existing- I mean, Disney is the quickest examples of severe decline in quality I can recall. And like, I still think nerfing Strange World with a complete absence of advertising had to be a planned sabotage. Like a somewhat expensive way to gaslight people that ‘hey, you see, new and original universes do not sell well, we constantly make reboots or force [brand] into irrelevant stories not because we want to, but because people ONLY buy that :)))))))’

And like? The alternative is if government was to fund the movies (kind of the case in my country). And that, of course, means heavy censorship and involving propaganda of the ideas that the government wants to spread, so yet again, movies cannot be a truly free form of art.

I do not really see any legit way to escape the loop of movies being very troubled as art, because people need money to make them. If investors pay for them - they’ll be garbage and constantly torment popular brands with whatever they think is cool these days instead of telling original and interesting stories, if government pays for them - they’ll be infected with propaganda and only “approved” ideas and stories will make it through.

The only at least somewhat optimistic way out I personally see is to drop the visual quality bar very low. Like... to come back to shitty cameras, environments made out of tinfoil and wallpaper (seeing this in Star Trek TOS), very shitty low polygon CGI... all that. Because it will cut the production costs a LOT but crappy visual quality will NOT be able to ruin the good story, interesting concepts and well-written characters that’s what. The worst crappy visuals will do is to create a lot of memes in the internet - and that is even GOOD because it can draw a lot of attention. Investment of simple rich guys that want to be even richer feels like lesser evil when it comes to the movies than government funding because of lacking censorship and propaganda; companies and individual studios can do whatever they want as long as it will bring STONKS! Art must be free in expression and what it wants to tell.

But the visuals at this rate feel like a useless leech because people need to justify before the investors that the astronomical money they’ll give will pay off. And why they’re astronomical? Right, because they need the most realistic CGI and the coolest assets.

I just... I think most people can agree that ‘pretty picture’ is not only not everything there is, but also the lowest priority. People would, in fact, look at awful animation or crappy effects as long as they are being told exciting, meaningful, or simply fun story. Basically, what is making movies worse is the same shit that puts even us, simple visual artists and writers, into lasting creative block; once a masterpiece is created, it raises the bar to this level, so now everything else has to be not worse, preferably better, but it is not EVERY time a masterpiece can be created. If anything, it might be once in a lifetime deal.

TLDR; I think movies should return to looking crappy so the original, interesting, eccentric ideas do not scare the investors away with demanding too much money, because at least this way new stories will more likely see the light. And won’t have to cheat by just slapping names of a previously known brand over completely unique and new story that we’re all sick of. Visual quality is just the lowest priority, so if something to cut production costs it can only be this.

[briony-tallis]

this post is hilarious because op states this so confidently like this definition puts us anywhere close to being able to create a delineation for the original query lol

"umm what's a real movie, you obvious snob" thanks for asking. a real movie is one that was made with the primary purpose of telling a story, not investor value. okay now the world is your oyster.

[garvescope]

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[affairsmastery]

Josef Kleindienst, an Austrian property developer, is challenging the trademark ownership of James Bond in the UK and EU, citing concerns over the franchise’s future. With no new Bond film or actor announcement since Daniel Craig’s exit, Kleindienst warns that 007 is in “mortal danger.”

He has filed trademark challenges over Bond-related merchandise and even film rights, though experts believe the latter will fail. His goal? To ensure James Bond remains alive for future generations.

With Amazon’s $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM and alleged creative tensions with Bond’s longtime producers, the franchise appears stalled. Kleindienst argues that fading commercial success could lead to 007’s downfall and insists on reviving and protecting the legacy of the world’s most famous spy.

Source: The Guardian