Boing Boing: What's killing Hollywood (not piracy!): "What's killing Hollywood (not piracy!) This short, sharp list of what's killing Hollywood is pithy and to the point, and the perfect note to sign off for the weekend with -- I'm going away for a couple days' worth of birthday celebration and I'll be back on Tuesdayish! 1. Hollywood cannot control its marketing costs or star salaries. The growing importance of DVDs increases the 'needle in the haystack' problem for any single film and thus locks studios into more marketing, creating a vicious spiral. 2. TV is now so much better, and offers artists greater creative freedom. Why watch movies?
3. The Internet is outcompeting cinema, whether at the multiplex or on DVD. 4. Big TV screens are keeping people at home, which lowers box office receipts. This also hurts the long-term prospects of many DVDs. 5. The demand for DVDs has fallen because movie lovers have completed their core collections, just as the demands for classical CDs have fallen. 6. The demand for DVDs was due to fall in any case. Forget the collectors, you buy DVDs to have a stock on hand so you don't have to run out to the video store on short notice. Now everyone has a stock. Stocks must be replenished every now and then, but there is no longer a large new cohort simultaneously building up a stock from scratch."
interesting!!!
2 comments:
You are dead on in your assessment, Mark. Another facet of this discussion would be the increasing use and availability of On-Demand. I've recently moved and do not currently subscribe to digital cable and boy do I miss On-Demand. I understand HBO upgraded their selections so that it is more fully-stocked. I have a feeling that there are going to be a lot of "C" grade indies made for this market.
On a separate note, my brother is also "Mark Friedlander." Our family is from Czechoslovakia. Where are your Friedlanders from?
Cookie Friedlander, you are right.
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