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> I can easily imagine a future where a single dedicated individual or at least a very small independent team can make a full-length movie without leaving their
by sho_hn 3y ago
> I can easily imagine a future where a single dedicated individual or at least a very small independent team can make a full-length movie without leaving their apartment on a tribal budget that rivals a big Hollywood production costing hundreds of mullions to produce today.
This is definitely exciting to contemplate, but it's still quite tricky for the economics: Right now, the fact that you need 4000 people to make a blockbuster movie limits the number of movies being made, giving each movie enough of an audience (potentially) to make their money back.
Better tools will enable more awesome creatives to make content alone - but will there be enough eyeballs to consume that content, even if it's cheap to make?
- nvm0n2 3y agoWe went through this with YouTube. The answer is yes. There's more than enough demand for stories that the current movie industry isn't interested in telling to sustain millions of cottage-industry movie or TV shows producers.