The whole reason the film industry is on the west coast is that they were trying to avoid paying for Edison’s patent on the motion picture camera. So, yeah, Hollywood was founded on IP violations.
Where do you think all the money for the biggest box office movies goes to? Like 3-5 people on top, then little goes to the main cast/crew, then quality fx and editing are an afterthought.
A lot of movies get their budgets from hedge funds because they aren’t generally strongly correlated with the overall market but that’s where the earnings of movies return, not the recipients of the 200M$ spent
Increasingly convinced that Hollywood is a scam. Someone is pocketing all that money
I would be shocked (shocked, I say) if Hollywood wasn’t mostly a front for money laundering rings.
Always has been.
The Japanese economy is artificially cheap.
At the same time though, you can save a lot of money if you do everything in house. Especially if you have inexpensive labor.
Not really, because you have to maintain that capacity when you aren’t using it.
Idk, could be on a gig labor plan
The whole reason the film industry is on the west coast is that they were trying to avoid paying for Edison’s patent on the motion picture camera. So, yeah, Hollywood was founded on IP violations.
Edison falsely claimed the patent.
Nah, no way. Edison was on the up and up about everything he did.
The fact we acknowledge Edison for anything other than being a piece of shit is a travesty.
I mean yeah.
Where do you think all the money for the biggest box office movies goes to? Like 3-5 people on top, then little goes to the main cast/crew, then quality fx and editing are an afterthought.
A lot of movies get their budgets from hedge funds because they aren’t generally strongly correlated with the overall market but that’s where the earnings of movies return, not the recipients of the 200M$ spent