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Posted by RickJWagner 13 hours ago

Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis(www.theculturenewspaper.com)
119 points | 389 commentspage 5
philwelch 11 hours ago|
They have no one to blame but themselves, judging by the quality of Hollywood movies in recent years.
gogasca 11 hours ago||
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SadErn 7 hours ago||
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farceSpherule 5 hours ago||
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morkalork 12 hours ago||
Is this article a weird cut-paste of older content? This passage makes no sense in the rest of the context, the tense is all wrong.

>Starting in 2029, the Oscars will also be streamed globally on YouTube, which the academy hopes will attract new audiences and reinvigorate the ceremony’s popularity after years of declining viewership.

Edit: I read 2019 not.. 2029. That's actually incredible. Are they going to get in on tiktok for 2039 next?

embedding-shape 11 hours ago||
What exactly doesn't make sense? The Oscars are moving to streaming the event globally on YouTube (bunch of TV channels has said they'll stop broadcasting it in 2029), and the viewership of the Oscars has been declining for years. I'm not sure I see what's wrong in there.
stavros 11 hours ago||
Hm, what's wrong with it?
PaulHoule 13 hours ago|
The Oscars are the heart of the problem. One definition of “celebrity” is “person who is celebrated”

Hollywood is so used to getting high on its own supply that it really thinks we want to see an AI slop video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise. People there just don’t have any information at all about what anybody outside their bubble thinks so of course they make samey big budget pictures and samey small budget pictures. Unless they shut down their communications channels and disperse geographically they are going to keep doing the same thing over and over again and be wondering why they keep getting the same results.

And that gets us to why they will never reform, they know their numbers are terrible but think this is (1) cyclical and (2) due to technological changes so they’ll never get it that running ads that make it sound like somebody else cares about Tom Cruise doesn’t really make people care about Tom Cruise, it just makes them ignore advertising messages.

fullshark 12 hours ago||
I think it's the opposite problem, they have too much information and data, which means they aren't making lots of gambles on new/different scripts anymore but making very safe bets because everyone is terrified of losing their cool high paying jobs.
hackyhacky 12 hours ago|||
> AI slop video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise

The video you are referring to was not produced by Hollywood, it was created by Irish director Ruairi Robinson, basically as a test of the new Seedance AI.

I'm not saying that Hollywood isn't out of touch, I'm just saying that nothing about Hollywood can be inferred from that video.

add-sub-mul-div 12 hours ago||
"Hollywood" thinks we want AI slop in the way that hackers think we want video with unskippable ads.