that line sure is making it so the production company gets 95% of the profits.
just me
that line sure is making it so the production company gets 95% of the profits.
Well, they’re negligible enough that the fact they exist wasn’t covered anywhere during my filmmaking degree, and i took all the extra business/law modules :')
And it was just the writers & actors right? What about all the editors, audio mixers, audio recorders, camera men, gaffers? riggers, vfx people, script supervisors, storyboard artists, props & costumes department, even runners! There’s just so much work to be done by so many people to bring a script to life, and we’re yet to hear of an editor/camera op/runner who lucked out by being a part of an accidentally famous billion dollar film and then never had to work again. Apart from producers, directors, actors, and writers sometimes - everyone’s work, though essential for audio visual media to exist, is rarely rewarded with a share of the profits it makes
Nebula has been slowly surpassing just “rebranded youtube content” so to speak. They’ve started financing films and plays like for Abigail Thorn, and they’re still true to their founding ethos. It’s no longer just higher quality youtube content, and i do hope to see them one day become more widely known and popular
and let’s not forget that piracy still allows for the most powerful form of advertisement - word of mouth. You might’ve not paid to watch something, but if it was good and you recommended it to your friends, they might!
back in the old Internet days the music studio Two Steps From Hell gained popularity nearly exclusively through piracy. I’m not even sure if they sold any albums before the widespread reupload of their music happened. I myself found out about them from a long deleted anime music video. And I have since bought several of their CDs and saw them live in Europe (after fans have begged them for nearly a decade to go on a tour). Would I have known they even existed if their music wasn’t spreading like illegal wildfire in the early 2010s? probably not, which would be a shame because they’re one of my all time favourite band-thingies idk how to call them
“taking the money creators would have made”
fun fact! this is not how the entertainment industry works.
The actual creators have long been paid for their work when a film/series releases, the only people who profit from the sales are those who own the IP, which is usually the production company (and the actors sometimes, if they decided to take a gamble and agreed on recieving royalties instead of signing a fixed contract. Or rarely the director, if their name alone can sell a film)
unless it’s like a fully indie film, self made, self produced, and self published, people who made the thing never see the sales money
& there is very little inbetween those two extremes, only thing that comes to my mind is works either commissioned by, or sold to a streaming service (& most of the time creators lose the IP rights if they do that).
so far the only exception to all this bullshit that i know of is Nebula
tbf, we don’t know much about the movie yet. Sure the CGI creatures are godawful but maybe the writing will be decent?.. well probably not
the only hope i have is that Minecraft is big enough of a name that they’d allow the creators to take financial risks, such as: being creative
don’t forget psychadelics had the same fate! made illegal becuase they had “corrosive effects on cultural values” (had to put hippies in jail for being too peaceful)
with that camera lense it better be capybaras that are about to fuck or the camerman’s getting mauled
that’d defeat the point of the whole picture that’s referencing a famous Polish meme
it’s likewise for me with Czech my slavic friend! :) and i really have to squint my ears for that to work
i think spoken polish is easier to understand for other slavic language speakers, written polish well, sorry about that, we got carried away with spellings chrzebrzeszczyns away
I’ll take 8pm vacuuming over 8am vacuuming any day
istg i have to write those words into every reply i give. Do people even read the words i write? Can they read? Should i give up?
fuck it’s so hard to resist the urge to mimic (though probably poorly) the writing style of the book i’m currently reading shakes fist at neuroplasticity
can i see a flowchart of that please? it’s 4am
but forgot a button hole, we can still fight them, though the battles are getting harder
is occasionally going feral and unhinged still something that proves i’m a human on the Internet? or has my job been taken again? :(
my phone is only allowed to send me notifications if it’s:
a human attempting to contact me
weather
and only allowed make a sound if
i’m watching a YouTube video
i’m expecting a call
then i get into my mum’s car and her phone connected to Bluetooth reads out her spam email through the car speakers- 😐