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Box Office: ‘Obsession’ Surpasses $400 Million Globally Box Office (variety.com)
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Mother fuckers! I didn't know any of that, thanks for sharing. It sounds a lot like how reality TV came to be, wasn't that a way of breaking the picket lines of a writers strike quite a few years back

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Right, same with streaming services, shorter seasons, etc., all ways of damaging the unions and squeezing more profits out of creatives. Now there's this hunt for YouTube stories/shorts to base new productions on. Cheaper, non union pre production and marketing, lower production budgets which skirt union contracts, and now the addition of teaming up with distribution outside the reach of unions.

    I read a blog post from IATSE about paying closer attention to indie productions for this reason, but I think that might run against capacity and bureaucracy limits of the unions. Time will tell.

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