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Hollywood and the script market

Miltos Pilalitos said:
As long as Hollywood can also give birth to movies like The curious case of Benjamin Button they can spent their money to whatever crap they want.
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the movie was financed because of the fincher-pitt-blanchet combo

cant remember one of the combo did shoot shit before.

this movie would have been made without tf2 too, i guess :)
 
Imran Farouk said:
this is really starting to annoy me...I'm looking for the quality that the old films use to have...Godfather, Goodfellas, Starwars (old ones) and other such films that people today still find fun to watch...Pulp Fiction...

It just seems to be a downward spiral for the industry though....

which makes me wonder...

Whens this web 2.0 crap gonna hit 3.0?

When is it possible for Indie film makers to hit the level of Hollywood style films (for me I can still tell the difference between a independent film and a studio one...) and place it somewhere, for maximum audience exposure immediately without incurring the middle party costs and so forth...(cost of producing dvds etc. and distrubting)...

Because right now...taking a game that has NO story line to it and piecing something together from that?bloody well just buy a script thats been made from scratch. Better yet work on making the current films that have been so crud from video games better...DOOM is a prime example..that was utter rubbish, so was D.O.A and pretty much every other video game film thats existed.

Just DONT understand this damn strategy of quick cash rather then quick LONG sustained cash flow...I'm sure Hollywood is still making money off the classics...why not make NEW classics...ones that will last as long as the old ones!
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It's all about the combination marketing/merchandising "hooks". They can run around to the zillion TV talk shows, newspapers, blogs, etc. and get some press - after all even here on REDUSER we are talking about the upcoming "Asteroids" and Viewmaster movies. So they get on the Today show and Matt Lauer can say "I remember when I used to play with the Viewmaster (or Asteroids or whatever) and it was really cool and now they are making a movie..." So with that they get lots of free advertising and that plus their movie marketing budget they get multiple income streams: from the tickets, DVDs, cable, but they also get to rejuvenate an old product and get money from the product sales as well. They feel better hyping the "synergy" than anything real. Without the movie hype they could never afford to advertise those products, and without the classic product tie-in nobody would notice.

As far as making classics with smaller but long term income streams, well our financial, legal, political, and social structures are so corrupted that there is very little REAL push for long term thinking/acting.
 
Given in movies of video games, they always change the plot.... And given that the plot of Asteroids is Asteroids and a space-ship.... They'll probably change it to hemorrhoids and a surgeon....

Graeme
 
Maybe someone should write a witty and engaging script based around all of the stuff we used to play with as kids. Maybe the stuff could come to life and get involved in a series of fun adventures.

It would make a nice animation and there must be huge scope for a video game and for loads of other stuff they could make money out of. In fact, I think they should call it "Stuff".
 
The obvious ROI here is a merchandising deal with A NEW VERSION of the video game. It's about the "brand" - and the viral marketing potential.
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
Battling Royal families? Betrayal? Giant mechs? Yes please. They should just do Macbeth with mechs.

some cheesy mechwarrior footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxfKZZ4RNng&feature=related
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......hhhhmmmm......confession here.....



i play battletech since i am 12 years...aidan pride, natasha kerensky, phelan kell, justin xiang allard.....

clans, inner sphere, yorinaga vs. morgan

phantom mech modus...

atlas, maraudeur, banshee S, warhammer, masakari, daishi, thor, mad cat....


i was a board gamer
 
Andrew Walker said:
Come-on Shawn, don't be so discouraged. I know its ridiculous how these things happen. But its because the idiots running the studios nowadays don't care about something being creative or a new idea. They just want to squeeze as much money out of the public as they can before the movie goers figure out that the movie is crap. Granted sometimes they can make something pretty entertaining with the right string of writers. But that is few and far between.
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So what I wonder is this, if they are so stupid then why doesn't the free market correct itself?
:anti-old:
 
Sander de Regt said:
If a film based on a Disney Park Theme Ride (Pirates of the Caribbean) can work, I'm not saying in advance this will fail. But it is kind of a stretch.
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Just holding out for "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride", now there's an instant classic.
 
The free market disappeared years ago in this country. It seems fairly obvious to me, as a industry outsider who would love to be an insider, that the films that get the most marketing are the ones that generate the most dollars. There are exceptions of course, but in a overall sense its seems true. The public is told what to like and what to spend their money on.
The best thing any of us can do, is learn the system, become a part of the system and then change the system from the inside.
Now if I could only figure out how to do that.
 
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