 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
1 edit | Big suprise When you are talking about a business that from it very early days was operated like organized crime, ripping each other off, putting actors into what amounted to indentured servitude. Money from bootleggers during Prohibition, Mob connections etc The fact they now act like the legendary rug merchant should be no surprise. But at least the rug merchant knows when it is time to make a sale. This is one industry that is really running it's self out of business. It is so costly to make a movie in this country that so many production companies are moving off shore.
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| said by Transmaster:It is so costly to make a movie in this country that so many production companies are moving off shore. You're not actually defending the streaming licensing fees as being justified based on the costs of creating a movie, are you?
Studios aren't stupid. Movie studios are a business. If the product costs too much and isn't getting enough revenue, they will change the product. |
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
1 edit | I didn't make my point very well. These studios continue to have the mindset of everybody is out to rip them off. The inside backstabbing, stealing, well this wasn't in the contract, you did not pay me for....... Hey this was my idea, actors, producers, directors, and production staff etc, etc, etc looking at each other with the idea of screw them before they can screw you. This everybody is out to rip me off mindset is now visible in the consumer world. This is the enviroment that is driving some of the production companies off shore the cheaper cost is one thing but getting away from the Hollywood atmosphere is another.
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
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| We certainly love our lawsuits in this country, yes, and I do feel that our time and dollars could be better spent, but I doubt that's the real reason driving production offshore.
Because frankly, getting entangled in a lawsuit in other countries sounds to me like a much tougher situation to be in.
Unless one assumes that the rule of law isn't as strong in other countries, which I would cite as a very strong negative to doing business there. |
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | The productions coming out of Czech Republic are something. The Dune mini series on SciFi channel was from the Czech Republic and it was real eye candy. Nobody is ever going to match Frank Herberts Dune series on any kind of visual media but the job that was done here was impressive. Even some of the really cornie romances out of bollywood are better then some of the stuff out of Hollywood these days.
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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
- Mark Twain in Eruption |
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