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Was it Matt Damon who said you can't make projects that aren't block busters anymore because Streaming has completely eroded the Media sales market where smalle

Was it Matt Damon who said you can't make projects that aren't block busters anymore because Streaming has completely eroded the Media sales market where smaller projects could recoup box office loses?

grecy 5y ago
Yep, exactly. https://streamable.com/pedvjq https://streamable.com/pedvjq
toyg 5y ago
Surely the audiences that bought DVDs are still there, so I guess the issue really is either: a) streaming does not pay per viewer as well as DVDs used to do (which is a commercial issue and relatively easy to fix: just force streamers to pay more, or invest in a dedicated "alt-films" service), or b) current streaming services fail at surfacing non-blockbusters. This is hard to fix (it's a problem common to basically everything on the web - there is only so much space on a screen, winner-takes-all, and people don't like going to multiple sites to do one thing).
- afavour 5y ago
  > which is a commercial issue and relatively easy to fix: just force streamers to pay more, or invest in a dedicated "alt-films" service I’d counter and say that neither of those things are particularly easy to achieve.
  - toyg 5y ago
    I mean, it's a "people problem" - given the right incentive and alignment of social planets, it can definitely be done. Whereas the other side of the problem may not be solvable at all. Hence "relatively".
thristian 5y ago
Matt Damon said you can't make non-blockbuster films because streaming eroded the DVD sales that supported those films. Matt Damon forgets that non-blockbuster films were popular before DVDs were invented. In the 1950s people went to the movies often, sometimes more than once a week, just to hang out with their friends and be entertained. Today there's so many more ways and venues to achieve that goal, movies get a smaller and smaller slice of that pie. DVDs weren't the solution, they just put off the inevitable for a little longer.
- worrycue 5y ago
  He might have a point. Maybe it’s rose tinted glasses but I see the 80s and 90s as the peak of Hollywood’s creativity … which so happens to be the time home video in the form of VHS took off. Coincidence?

grecy 5y ago

Yep, exactly. https://streamable.com/pedvjq https://streamable.com/pedvjq

toyg 5y ago

Surely the audiences that bought DVDs are still there, so I guess the issue really is either: a) streaming does not pay per viewer as well as DVDs used to do (which is a commercial issue and relatively easy to fix: just force streamers to pay more, or invest in a dedicated "alt-films" service), or b) current streaming services fail at surfacing non-blockbusters. This is hard to fix (it's a problem common to basically everything on the web - there is only so much space on a screen, winner-takes-all, and people don't like going to multiple sites to do one thing).

afavour 5y ago
> which is a commercial issue and relatively easy to fix: just force streamers to pay more, or invest in a dedicated "alt-films" service I’d counter and say that neither of those things are particularly easy to achieve.
- toyg 5y ago
  I mean, it's a "people problem" - given the right incentive and alignment of social planets, it can definitely be done. Whereas the other side of the problem may not be solvable at all. Hence "relatively".

thristian 5y ago

Matt Damon said you can't make non-blockbuster films because streaming eroded the DVD sales that supported those films. Matt Damon forgets that non-blockbuster films were popular before DVDs were invented. In the 1950s people went to the movies often, sometimes more than once a week, just to hang out with their friends and be entertained. Today there's so many more ways and venues to achieve that goal, movies get a smaller and smaller slice of that pie. DVDs weren't the solution, they just put off the inevitable for a little longer.

worrycue 5y ago
He might have a point. Maybe it’s rose tinted glasses but I see the 80s and 90s as the peak of Hollywood’s creativity … which so happens to be the time home video in the form of VHS took off. Coincidence?