Thanks Ted. You put voice to the thoughts in my head. The very reasons I started writing here. Thinking in every direction, embracing the transition, planning for the precarity and absolutely - cutting off the dead parts so we can continue to grow new limbs. I am very glad to have found your sub today.
Death is part of the process. The only way to be without death is to never change. And that's not living. Change is life. Change is also risk. With change there is a chance of choosing badly, or at least just wrong. But change is needed to grow. Change is needed to adapt and prosper. So you must risk not in order to. And with change comes opportunity for new ideas to root.
Example. With the Academy announcing officially of the change in qualification status for consideration of films we'll all have to change how we market films to get the chance. Interestingly, I've pondered a new opportunity this change brings that might be a boon. Though the Academy has stated you now must have seven days of run in "10 of the top 50 markets," it doesn't state which listing they're using of those "top 50 markets". (I asked last year when the rule was being considered but no one responded with the list and who makes it.) If we can get that knowledge shared then there is an opportunity for a distributor to set up deals with cinemas in markets 40-49 for a discounted run for new features. It meets the rules (besides the six qualifying theatrical runs in cited metropolitan areas,) and would allow a savvy distrib to play the system, get their films seen and appreciated in the "fly over states," where the opportunities for indies is still untapped as full potential and be cost effective.
Change happens. Call them opportunities and try something new. Embrace the chaos. It's going to be there anyway, you might as well make friends.
I think we need to concentrate on birth, realizing that death is inevitable, but legacy, what we do with our lives is most important. Money is only a means of exchange, how we earn it and what we do with it, is what is really important. We gave birth to a new International Studio Without Borders or Walls during the pandemic. I hope it will make those films and other projects that will change the world around us. I hope it will live longer than me and all the others that brought it into existence. I believe if it does it can so change the world that "wars" will no longer exist, because they will be nipped in the bud before they ever get to that stage. Fear will be dissolved in its beginning stages so that hatred has no time or place to develop. When film and other media becomes part of the solution and not the problem, all of the world will rejoice in entertainment that does much more than just entertain but gives us a whole new outlook on our lives and how we can live them.
“Bogue Millionaires/Cool Millionaires” by 1/2 Japanese
Released Independently in 1977 on their own 50 Skadillion Watts In The Hands Of Babies label.
I'm not going to hang around
Bogue millionaires no more
No, I'm not going to hang around
Bogue millionaires no more
A bogue millionaire
She won't take you out to dinner
A bogue millionaire
She won't ever buy you a present
Even if it's your birthday
She don't care
That's a bogue millionaire
I'm not going to hang around
One of them
I'm going to hang around
Cool millionaires
And have a cool time
I'm going to go over to
Paloma Picasso's house
And sit on her sofa
And she'll cook dinner for me
And then I'll ask to kiss her
And then I will kiss her
Yeah, I'm going to have a cool time
With my cool millionaire friends
And then I'm going to go to
Dolly Parton's house
And ask her to go on a picnic
And then we'll go in the woods
And she'll sing for me
And she'll put money in
My bank account
Yeah, I'm going to have a cool time
And then I'll go over to
Andy Warhol's house
Because he's one of my best friends
And we'll sit around and watch TV
Yeah, I'm going to have a cool time
With all my cool millionaire friends
And then I'm going to go over to
Margaux Hemingway's house
And just look at her
Ooh, oooh
I'm going to have a cool time
I'm going to have a real cool time
Tonight
And then I'm going to go to
Peter Townshend's house
And we'll have a jam session
And then I'll break his guitar
And knock over his amp
Because I'm a good friend of his
And he's a good friend of mine
Yeah, I'm going to have a
Real cool time
Tonight
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Thanks Ted. You put voice to the thoughts in my head. The very reasons I started writing here. Thinking in every direction, embracing the transition, planning for the precarity and absolutely - cutting off the dead parts so we can continue to grow new limbs. I am very glad to have found your sub today.
Death is part of the process. The only way to be without death is to never change. And that's not living. Change is life. Change is also risk. With change there is a chance of choosing badly, or at least just wrong. But change is needed to grow. Change is needed to adapt and prosper. So you must risk not in order to. And with change comes opportunity for new ideas to root.
Example. With the Academy announcing officially of the change in qualification status for consideration of films we'll all have to change how we market films to get the chance. Interestingly, I've pondered a new opportunity this change brings that might be a boon. Though the Academy has stated you now must have seven days of run in "10 of the top 50 markets," it doesn't state which listing they're using of those "top 50 markets". (I asked last year when the rule was being considered but no one responded with the list and who makes it.) If we can get that knowledge shared then there is an opportunity for a distributor to set up deals with cinemas in markets 40-49 for a discounted run for new features. It meets the rules (besides the six qualifying theatrical runs in cited metropolitan areas,) and would allow a savvy distrib to play the system, get their films seen and appreciated in the "fly over states," where the opportunities for indies is still untapped as full potential and be cost effective.
Change happens. Call them opportunities and try something new. Embrace the chaos. It's going to be there anyway, you might as well make friends.
I think we need to concentrate on birth, realizing that death is inevitable, but legacy, what we do with our lives is most important. Money is only a means of exchange, how we earn it and what we do with it, is what is really important. We gave birth to a new International Studio Without Borders or Walls during the pandemic. I hope it will make those films and other projects that will change the world around us. I hope it will live longer than me and all the others that brought it into existence. I believe if it does it can so change the world that "wars" will no longer exist, because they will be nipped in the bud before they ever get to that stage. Fear will be dissolved in its beginning stages so that hatred has no time or place to develop. When film and other media becomes part of the solution and not the problem, all of the world will rejoice in entertainment that does much more than just entertain but gives us a whole new outlook on our lives and how we can live them.