Shifting the Hollywood Beans
2006-Aug-1 by Laughcalvin
Patrick Goldstein has a good article in today's LA Times' Calender Section about how the Media Conglomerates are down-sizing the studios here in the Grid. Bound to have happened and it's a damn good thing. Jim Carey, or any star for that matter, making 25 mil a pic has to be curtailed. The movie-going public is not going to put 6 million dollars into Ari Emanual's pocket. Now is the time for REAL INDIES to rise up!! Make damn good movies for little money (i.e. don't spend all the budget on marketing) and let the public choose the movie it wants to see; whether it's Pirates or Brick.
2006-Aug-2 - I see a sea change a-comin Posted by KYJoe
What with the ability for small-timers to get their hands on the same type of equipment (ie. Elford Argent's "Afterthought" being shot on the same camera as Mann's "Miami Vice"), the technical gap between studio pics and indies becomes much less significant.
The net allows for minimal costs in marketing, and tus very good exposure for indie projects.
My hope is that audiences will more and more shun studio sewage like "Stealth" and "Gigli" and accept the "Little Miss Sunshine(s)", "Man Push Cart(s)", et al.
It could happen.
