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Studios are hopeless, for the reasons you detail. They're just big companies in the end, and they move slowly if at all. But there's another layer of Hollywood

Studios are hopeless, for the reasons you detail. They're just big companies in the end, and they move slowly if at all. But there's another layer of Hollywood, the indie production companies, that has been a world of what are essentially startups, and that's existed for decades. The ability to innovate isn't just available, it's almost essential to those folks. So Hollywood can innovate, and can do so quite well, actually. Independent producers are as good at what they do as anyone in silicon valley. One of them, or a group of them, will stumble on a model that is wildly successful and then the herds will follow. It'll happen.

jonnathanson 15y ago
I tend to agree with you here. The challenge I've run up against is this: big studios can't really position themselves for innovation, but tech companies don't always understand the complexities and idiosyncracies of putting AAA content together. Producers bring the material and content expertise directly to the tech companies, who can function as distributors (and need not get their hands too dirty on physical production or development).
paganel 15y ago
> Studios are hopeless, for the reasons you detail. They're just big companies in the end, and they move slowly if at all. The big Hollywood studios should have really died at the end of the '60s-early '70s. But then the likes of Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola came along and they won themselves another few decades. But unless something similar happens in the next couple of years they're going to go the way of the dodo, simply because, artistically speaking, their movies are shit (pardon my French). There's no artistic innovation, there's no connection between what they produce and the audience (I want to see a poignant a movie as Rambo I was, damn it!), they're too scared to "indispose" the political administration, they've just turned themselves into a propaganda machine (and they're no Eisensteins, mind you). And for all those that think "Hollywood is too big to fail!", just think about what happened to Cinecittà or to the Japanese big studios like Toei or Nikkatsu.
pavel_lishin 15y ago
Indie studios can innovate, but they can't lobby as effectively.

jonnathanson 15y ago

I tend to agree with you here. The challenge I've run up against is this: big studios can't really position themselves for innovation, but tech companies don't always understand the complexities and idiosyncracies of putting AAA content together. Producers bring the material and content expertise directly to the tech companies, who can function as distributors (and need not get their hands too dirty on physical production or development).

paganel 15y ago

> Studios are hopeless, for the reasons you detail. They're just big companies in the end, and they move slowly if at all. The big Hollywood studios should have really died at the end of the '60s-early '70s. But then the likes of Lucas, Spielberg and Coppola came along and they won themselves another few decades. But unless something similar happens in the next couple of years they're going to go the way of the dodo, simply because, artistically speaking, their movies are shit (pardon my French). There's no artistic innovation, there's no connection between what they produce and the audience (I want to see a poignant a movie as Rambo I was, damn it!), they're too scared to "indispose" the political administration, they've just turned themselves into a propaganda machine (and they're no Eisensteins, mind you). And for all those that think "Hollywood is too big to fail!", just think about what happened to Cinecittà or to the Japanese big studios like Toei or Nikkatsu.

pavel_lishin 15y ago

Indie studios can innovate, but they can't lobby as effectively.