Capitalism is supposed to encourage innovation. But in Hollywood, studios are creating a narrower range of films to avoid taking any risk at all.
MoviePass Works. Why Is Hollywood So ‘Meh’?
“If we’re doubling the frequency of the customers who’ve been abandoning you, you’d think they’d cut us in on some of your increased profits.”
Artist Corporations: A groundbreaking structure for creative people
Creative people deserve the same economic advantages as everyone else. So we’re going to build it together.
Why MoviePass really failed
An industry-shaking idea, and a company that flew directly into the sun
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
37signals recommends that software developers pursue what they call the Hollywood Launch. They don’t give any argument for this method, except perhaps the title (as if Hollywood was a business you should try to imitate?) — I guess the idea is that you’re supposed to do it since 37signals says to.
Gallery Ventures | Venture is an art
We are a stage-agnostic venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building the companies that shape our world.
Studio Ghibli’s Biggest Secret Is What Comes Next
The world-famous studio that helped ignite a $25 billion-a-year anime boom is in no rush to make another movie
Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
AI Artists Have No Role Models
Prompt Engineers Lack Any Canon, Don't You? AI artists have an existential problem: they consume only their own work, severing the dialogue of culture that…
‘Borderlands’ Blunder Proves Hollywood Hasn’t Mastered Adapting Video Games to Film
After opening below $10 million domestically, “Borderlands” dealt a blow to the notion of gaming IP saving the day for Hollywood
Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)
The media spectacle of generative AI (in which AI companies' breathless claims of their software's sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many creative workers, a group that's already traumatized by extractive abuse by media and tech companies.
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
Arts and culture for the enjoyment of all – Victorian Socialists
Art should belong to everyone, not just the rich. We’re fighting for stronger support for emerging artists, museums, galleries, theatres and live music.
Hello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You Customers
'Even if this was a genre popularised by human artists, it would still look like shit'
The Real Story of Pixar
How a bad hardware company turned itself into a great movie studio
Do you mean “can the arts business model survive monopolies?” Half of the story here is of concentration of power in a quasi-monopsony (eg Spotify) and a de facto monopoly (LiveNation). That’s what’s actually killing the arts.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈
Can the arts business model survive AI? Perhaps the best guide is to look at how the arts survived past tech revolutions Take music—internet piracy and then streaming killed the lucrative CD market, but musicians mostly saved their jobs by focusing much more on live concerts
There is starting to be some genuinely interesting AI-created film stuff (among a flood of slop), and I suspect this will only accelerate. The “is it art?” debate will grow Benjamin’s 1935 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” already argued it’s likely the wrong question.
