More Bad Things Our 2024 Cinema Ecosystem Endures

Part Three in the Series Of The Good & The Bad

I had to start with the Good. But yesterday we launched into the Bad. It is going to be a long ride through a giant pile of neglect. Don’t let it get you down though. This is where we can find meaning and purpose. Every item on this list is worthy attack.

Voice? No standing anytime.

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Problems With The FKATheFilmBiz, 2024

Part 2 of All The Bad In Our Cinema Ecosystem, #25-50 (C-D)

26. Best Practices — we don’t do much to forward and refine them in any and all aspects of our field. Perhaps it is time someone launched an annual forum?

27. Budgets: Eric Fellner & Tim Beven will tell you we need bolder visions and more reasonable budgets — and I agree with them.

28. Capitalism vs Art: as much as Hollywood was the dream of a home for both art and commerce simultaneously, the two missions are inherently at odds with each other, and yet we seem unwilling to accept that. Sure, there is art in business, and business in art, but the pursuit of either often exposes the sacrifices and barriers the others bring.

29. Capitalism / Surveillance Capitalism: Soshana Zuboff’s 2018 book remains a #MustRead for all of us, as our work is being used to reveal and control the behaviors of people everywhere, and all without our intent or permission. This is the system we are in.

30. Careers: How do you think about a career when all the jobs are disappearing? And then when there are jobs, they aren’t really jobs. Every one is in the gig economy when they are in the FKATheFilmBiz.