[HN Gopher] Hollywood is dead, according to Justine Bateman. Her...
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       Hollywood is dead, according to Justine Bateman. Here's what comes
       next
        
       Author : mikhael
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-11-03 21:48 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | DaveExeter wrote:
       | I wonder if she's still getting Family Ties residuals?
        
       | bastloing wrote:
       | AI and Tick Tuck
        
       | tedunangst wrote:
       | How does this death of Hollywood differ from all the previous
       | deaths?
        
         | pessimizer wrote:
         | Venture a guess. You could read the article, or just say the
         | first thing that comes to mind and you'd probably be right.
        
       | blackeyeblitzar wrote:
       | The conveyor belt analogy from this article is deserved. I feel
       | like this has been true for a long time, like 20 years or so.
       | Remake after remake. Yet another superhero film. Uninteresting
       | pipelines of shows and movies that recycle existing IP but also
       | destroy existing canon (look at Star Wars). There are exceptions
       | - we still have _some_ great films (like Interstellar ten years
       | ago) and shows (like Game of Thrones). But it does feel like most
       | of the content from traditional media is noticeably bad.
       | 
       | I also think though, that Hollywood has become unlikeable and
       | polarizing for many other reasons. Some of those reasons are the
       | political culture of Hollywood (with bias in one direction). Some
       | of it is the moral culture (like Harvey Weinstein). But a lot of
       | the exhaustion with Hollywood is simply that the faces of
       | Hollywood - celebrity actors - just seem really self
       | aggrandizing. The award shows. The unwelcome public stances on
       | random topics. The ostentatious displays of wealth (fancy cars,
       | mansions in exotic places, etc). The worship of celebrity that is
       | practiced through glowing magazine interviews, coverage of
       | personal issues (like divorces), and merchandising.
       | 
       | Democratization is coming for a lot of different industries, and
       | Hollywood is one of them. The availability of high quality cheap
       | audio and visual equipment, the over supply of talent, the low
       | costs of techniques like CGI, the prospect of new tools like
       | generative AI, and social media for publishing are all pulling
       | attention away from traditional channels. I think this will be
       | great for viewers. Independent content creators are becoming
       | _very_ good at what they do. It doesn't mean the death of
       | Hollywood entirely, but it does mean that only the very best can
       | survive.
       | 
       | I also think this affects movies and TV shows differently. People
       | have appetite for great TV shows still, and outliers like HBO
       | will survive due to exceptional content quality. But movie
       | theaters, as a way to market and draw viewers, are a dying
       | concept. The industry keeps trying to evolve by offering
       | different gimmicks (like 3D and "4D"), luxury experiences, dining
       | experiences, and so on. But you can't get away from the fact that
       | it is very inconvenient to have to go to a theater, deal with
       | noisy crowds, etc. We also all have much more awareness of how
       | illness spreads after the pandemic. Theaters will go away, except
       | for maybe the possibility of film festivals or other such events.
       | That's a big change for movies, but TV shows aren't losing
       | anything from the death of theaters.
        
       | nextcaller wrote:
       | I just want the Black Mirror machine to work faster.
        
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