Disney’s Ruining Movies
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Disney will no longer sell DVDs or Blu-ray (physical media) in Australia and New Zealand
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No physical ownership makes me feel even less bad about acquiring media in creative ways.
Same, I will accept nothing less than the complete and total ownership of my movies and TV shows. Whether that ownership comes from unofficial sources or a DVD rip is irrelevant.
Yes, the problem is trying to milk the cow 24hrs a day. And then try to make more out of it. Eventually the cow will go to India.
Not a fan of streaming services not just because I don't like paying a bill to have the option to watch something but when it comes to watching movies when I want to watch something I want to watch that something. With all these companies spreading their libraries across different platforms buying one just seems stupid and the one was already a tough sell.
I don't need to have the object in my hands though. I will continue to use something like Steam for games even if physical media existed. I'd need a bookshelf or two to hold the games otherwise and I simply do not have that kind of space.
Exactly it feels like ripping a yt video
I never did like streaming but I liked having disks less but I love having a digital copy of the stuff arranged on to my multiple hard drives so nothing is really changing other than I watch a lot less from America since it has sucked for the past few years.
Piracy or preserving old movies from streaming services should be legal imo, Cuz they're like burning down the library on purpose while your favorite books are still in it
Literally! This is like Disney setting the library on fire, and you get arrested for "stealing" because you wanted to preserve your favourite book from the fire
This would make sense if you were actually subscribed to the service at one point. But why should it be legal for someone who never subscribed to the service to pirate removed content and receive it for free? It was removed precisely because it caused the company a loss and people didn't subscribe to view it. This creates an unfair incentive where consumers are incentivized to not subscribe because the fewer subscribers there are, the more free content there is.
I say all of this as an avid and shameless pirate.
Well, people burn books now lol
I really think the price for the tax write-off should include having to give up all copy right to it as well to both insure that they can't profit off it later and to preserve the art.
It's been 20 years, but I've gone back to piracy after having so much trouble buying movies.
99.99% of my movies and shows are purchased, but for that 0.001% that aren't, I'm gladly pirating. It's a reasonable means of acquiring something for historical purposes. A lot of these I see as educational content for my kids. I want to show them things that had a cultural impact, and not all of them are available at the store. In fact, many of the best versions aren't available at all. They were printed in limited quantities and don't exist anymore. I used to care, but these days? I care more about educating my kids and archiving history than I do about making sure I pay.
Again, I buy if available, but if not? Yeah, I'll pirate the crap out of it now. Too many things disappear for me to say "no way".
Piracy remains king lol
our net speeds here down-under suck tho, pirating since forever ago using realplayer
yt-dlp for youtube vids are solid, but sometimes can be only at 100kbs/sec
My 2.5TB plex library agrees (I dont have the internet to do 4k :/ )
Argh hoist the colors me matey
It's a peer to peer sharing community
Always ha
The reason why music piracy is minimal is that all the major music streaming services have almost a of the available music in their catalogue. Movie/TV show streaming is however a fragmented mess. If I get an itch to watch a specific movie/TV show the odds are it's not available in my region and even if it is I would still have to search through multiple services.
Thinking of setting up a Jellyfin server for that very reason...
And also a LOT of music is simply available on some kind of physical media. If not more than just years ago. It seems like they push out everything on Vinyl, even over CDs sometimes. Of course that's a trend and people buy it as "merch" or collectible in a "FOMO" kind of way, but a lot of new and old music has come out physically, albeit a bit more limited because vinyl records are simply more difficult and expensive to make. - Plus, CDs kind of linger at least and don't go out of production as quickly. - On top of that, there's the used market, with platforms like Discogs and of course ebay and the like, which make it way easier to find copies than even DVDs and Blu-rays.
But then, for the streaming part, just like with streamed movies and shows, the big issue is that the artists get paid next to nothing, especially if you're not among the biggest ones. It's merely a marketing-tool to the artists (which is honestly how I use it, to find them and try their music). And while some platforms, like Spotify, do make an effort to show physical media and merch on the artist-pages, linking to stores, I wonder how many people really bother with it. - And it's not enough, because streaming-companies are still just taking all the money from the subscriptions. - The only thing you can do is pull your music from the platform, IF you have any control over that, and the heads at Spotify and other companies might just shrug at it, unless enough artists do it that people end their subscriptions or something.
I've got one. Pretty easy to setup. And it's not like stuff like Jellyfin is automatically piracy - I have lots of DVDs and Blu Rays I acquired at thrift stores/garage sales/eBay for cheap that I ripped and keep on my NAS. Still have the physical media, but it's in a box in storage somewhere. Who needs Netflix when I have a homelab? I even have dedicated Jellyfin apps on all my streaming devices (Roku and FireStick). And it's not like you need some really fancy setup. Just about any old desktop will do just fine (does it have an Intel Core I-series? Probably fine then, as long as you don't insist on realtime transcodes.). If it has room for a few hard drives, you can probably even run Truenas scale and ZFS with RAID on it. Then Jellyfin can run as a container under Truenas Scale (check out the truecharts repository - if they don't have it, you probably don't want it).
Every movie and show is available on Apple TV and Amazon and vudu
@@ccoder4953 wait, but isn’t ripping a protected DVD still illegal? Most movies on DVD have a FBI warning for a reason right?
This is why I purchase physical media for shows and movies that I love. Additionally, I'm not too torn up about the writer's strike, since that means we're going to be getting less garbage for a while.
9:33 Luke's life flashing before his eyes
Underrated comment right here 🤣
XD
As a lover of physical media, this makes me immensely sad. One of our local retailers, JB Hifi, sold a limited run of the complete Marvel Infinity Saga and I picked one up. I have a physical copy of all those movies to back up my digital ones. If they stop selling physical media, or even just stop selling it period (no, streaming is not buying), then I'll just stop paying them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been the victim to this with Netflix. Their Adventures of Sinbad spin off of the anime Magi was really good. It's gone forever. Can't even stream it
Wait. That is gone? Rip. I liked that anime
damn I remember watching that when i was younger, that sucks
@@mrmoosetachio sadly :( only Magi is left now
Correction for Linus:
Anime is a medium not a genre.
I've seen many people start watching animation and/or anime just because some stories are so amazing and compelling.
Arcane, Invincible, The Legend of Vox Machina, Vinland Saga, Dr. Stone, Chainsaw Man, Spiderman into and across the spider verse, DC animated TV series and movies (which are many times better than the live action stuff) and many many more.
Of course I just gave some great examples of recent great anime. There are many more great ones that are even older.
Anime is *specifically* animation originating in Japan. You listed majority examples of animation originating outside of Japan. Arcane is not anime. Spiderman is not anime.
@@LoganChristianson I said anime and animation. Obviously I know the difference man...
I also said I just gave some examples of great anime, I didn't want to post a humongous list of "must watch anime".
Three out of my seven examples are anime. I expected ppl to dislike the fact that I recommend great animation and anime in the same centence but I specified that I'm talking about both and both are worth your while. Jeez.
There's a difference in connotation between anime and animation. E.g. whenever a self proclaimed anime fan asked me if i watch anime and i answered "do ghibli movies count?" they said no, even though we obviously both know that ghibli is technically anime. But it's not anime-anime.
@@majorfallacy5926 I'm sorry but only mainstream anime fans don't consider Ghibli movies real anime. Actually, many people would argue that you are not a "real" anime fan if you didn't watch any of the Ghibli movies.
Ghibli movies sit at the foundation of the culture of the anime medium and great anime masterpieces.
Saying that Ghibli movies are not real anime anime, it's like saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger was not the father of bodybuilding and one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, just because he didn't use steroids like everyone does nowadays.
@@Hirens. Yeah and the mainstream represents the majority/default, that's my point.
Don't well ackshually words shifting connotations when they become mainstream. At best you're an old man yelling at clouds, but more likely you come off as trying so desperately to sound smart stating something that everyone already knows that you have to actively misinterpret the thing to get an opportunity to chime in.
In response to Linus saying that he doesn’t believe there are cash reserves, it is my understanding that the Writer’s Union does have a strike fund to help its members pay their bills while on strike, however this fund can only get them so far before the money is gone.
Australian here: they make absolutely zero effort to dub/localise content here. We get US English subtitles not UK English, and that is all that would be "needed", which is mostly z's->s's and color -> colour
Gotta love the Dr. Evil reference.
The apettite for foreign movies has been increasing quite a lot in the past five years. I recall watching a bunch of movies from Poland, Turkey, India, Latin America and South Korea while Hollywood was flowing through the content sludge. Even though most of them didn't have the budget nor the production value to surpass anything from Hollywood, they still had a lot of heart and soul and were able to deliver good quality.
Tbh the writing and production has been terrible as of late most stuff churned out is garbage and they go on strike expecting more money this might be a blessing in disguise reset
Streaming is good, because you can reach content easily.
Streaming is bad, because: if you don't have internet for some reason, you don't have content. Streamer companies not necessarily put online the version of the movie you want to watch (e.g.: Aliens on Disney+ is not the director's cut). Streamer companies just remove content they decide it does not worth streaming anymore. Even though streamer companies advertise 4K surround, they not deliver, at least when you watch on a computer. I don't know if it works well on televisions, but sometimes I would guess that on a computer you have maybe 720p maximum.
Thinking about the Piles of Disney VHSs that are at my parents house and wondering how many of those are not on D+ and will never be.
I'm also trying to think of that and realize how many were actually copied tapes back then already. I think my dad knew someone who did it for about 5 USD a pop and you'd even get a fancy monochrome copymachined cover with it!
just found out FB is now using your FB posts and profile information for generative ai, the form to opt out doesn't work not sure if this is by design. Might be worth looking into.
LOL until very recently it was difficult to get access to legitimate paid streaming sites in here in Aus. Disney is realy jumping the gun here expecting us to quickly be familiar with these paid services.
I've never heard of non-Australian movies being dubbed into Australian. But I've heard the reverse. Mad Max was dubbed in the US version.
Though it's not Australian, Hellraiser was also famously dubbed for the US as well.
Current "The Walking Dead" universe writers shouldn't be on strike... They should consider themselves lucky to even have jobs the writing has been so horrible the last few years.
3:00 Hell even my "Watching stuff" is primarily listening to it, whilst i play a game (this video included), or something else.
Not sure that counts as i have a multitasking addiction anyways...
10:17 anime is not a genre. It's an animation style
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Please think about what that future could be like.
Think of what could happen if things turn full dystopia.
Everything made by the networks will reality TV except for the big names (think Nathan Fillion, Keifer Suherland, etc) who can draw viewers and crowdfunded stuff.
Like, I mean, seriously, you just look at the success of The Chosen and realize that likely anything that's unique is likely going to not go through the big studios and instead will be made with money from crowdfunding!
Maybe they shouldn't make their Blu-rays like 25-30 Dollars for a basic edition... Normal price of a BD would be somewhere from 10-20, depending. And sure, they might release them only periodically, as they have this "vault" principle, and their releases are quite full of content and at high quality as I understand it, but still, they're pretentious about it and probably don't make as many sales as they could because of it.
For me, the consolation is that so many lables like Kino Lorber, Arrow Video and Criterion still care deeply about the preservation and physical release of both popular and lesser known movies. And they're not stopping anytime soon :)
If Disney takes the loss and writes-off content, effectively throwing it in the garbage for a tax break, does that mean they no longer own the rights over it? Seems I lose the rights to absolutely anything I put out on my curb as trash, so shouldn't it be the same here? If the content is so valueless to Disney that they'd rather throw it away, then why should they care if the "dumpster divers" of Internet content curation want to preserve certain content and keep it available?
Anime has seen a surge in popularity in recent years its been awesome as a long time fan of the genre
Disney has been doing this for a long time now. getting ride of content only time will tell if they will bring it back. they used to call it putting it in the vault when they stopped releasing content on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. I could see this streaming service hurting them from the beginning. they banked on getting a bunch of people rebuying there content when they remastered it. now with streaming its losing money not just because they take content off but because it removed the need for the vast majority of people to buy there movies at $60 a pop.
That no company ever uses a print on demand type of service blows my mind. Even if it costs a bit more to the consumer the option existing is worthwhile.
Small ville was pretty big in America.
CW network used to be the WB (Warner brothers) network before it changed in early 2000s.
I thought it was silly in 1984 where they had to collect old media to modify it, this fixes that issue, thanks Disney!
As an American I loved Smallville and the cast. Also watched the first season of the flash and sad it just ended this year 😢 due to marvel issues and budget also cast timeframes to the script strikes just ended it.
I have a similar problem with audio books, I can't get the physical ones anymore and when I get the digital ones my nearly only option is audible and they are remaking them all into originals, meaning I can't listen to specific narrator anymore, because you literally can't get the audio book.
When companies don't provide easy or affordable access to content in many regions of the world, prioritize profits, and don't allow physical ownership, then piracy becomes one of the best tools for both providing access to content to the masses, and also preserving media that would get locked away or changed by those same companies.
Disney's rising disdain for DVDs and Blu-ray discs is a personal affront to me whenever I look at the hundreds of DVDs and dozens of Blu-ray discs I own. I'm, like, "You trynna diss me bro?" Also 4K streaming will never be as good as 4K Blu-ray in terms of quality. Sure, Disney's making mostly fairly mid tier and lower movies, apart from Spiderman No Way Home and Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and much worse than that streaming shows at the minute, but they made some bangers in the past and I guarantee they will make some good quality movies again at some point in the future. Streaming shows, not so much the only time was good was the first half of WandaVision. Rather they kill off Disney+ with the garbage shows so they keep supporting DVDs and Blu-ray discs even though it's ultra convenient to watch their old movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinochio (the good one, well the animated one), Little Mermaid, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc and The Incredibles 1. Sure, they're only killing off DVDs and Blu-ray discs in Australia and New Zealand for now, but that is just the beginning of the end. It starts off there and slowly spreads to the rest of the world. I need something to pass the time if my internet goes down for a bit, apparently they don't want to let me have new movies and shows on DVD anymore I hope it's only Disney but I have a feeling once they set the trend, others will follow suit. I get sick of watching the same stuff I can't read a book I can't maintain focus I will be even more fed up when the internet goes down in the future at this rate I got no mobile data signal in my room I can't even hotspot despite having unlimited data which sucks.
For me, its not even the quality. I just literally cannot afford to pay for streaming + internet +etc
The biggest problem not just in media but in the American economy isn’t that most companies are too too heavy. Either the people at the top get paid way too much, or they throw common sense business practice out the window due to needing to constantly make money for shareholders. It’s just all around fuck up.
I've generally been opposed to piracy and generally employ the Linus route of buying physical media and ripping into Plex. But lately I've been skirting that line with content from the Internet Archive. There's a lot of content on there that are generally unavailable otherwise, including things like the original Star Wars movies on Laserdisc (pre-"special editions") and TV shows from the 80s and 90s that I grew up with but cannot find anywhere. Some in the Plex community have even been putting together literal TV stations including era-specific commercials for a nice bit of nostalgia. These things have value and should be preserved but are legally dubious at best, life-altering illegal at worst.
There’s no end in sight for the WGA strike as the ARMPIT won’t compromise. One of the biggest issues is lack of transparency with streaming numbers. The streaming companies don’t want to disclose the numbers because it’s not doing well. Linus you should talk to Nerdrotic, Robert Meyer Burnett etc etc if you want real info about the WGA strike.
I just bought a Blu-ray a couple of the Venture Bros. movie a couple weeks ago. We're still out there!
aus went from being the stronghold of physical media and DVD rental, to Disney thinking they can stop selling all together (although now sanity is dead and JB is starting to move on from physical media too, maybe they've made the right call... rip sanity)
Don't feel bad for the WGA strikers, they rejected a deal that included everything they wanted except a minimum number of writers for any given project.
Starting out in Hollywood writing is gig work. Many writers are paid better than average workers. Plus the Union has turn down pretty good deals. The hold up is being the writers want to have more writers in the writers room than what the project calls for. The reason is the Union want more writers worker to collect the union dues. It is the Union that are being greedy.
Piracy has been about preservation for decades at least, the narrative of film and music studios pushed the narrative to be more selfish, and after society starts to stabilize again the corporations will get everyone thinking piracy is selfish once more, but for the time being it's nice to know that there are good reasons for people to push back now that companies are back to destroying the recordings. The first recordings of humans landing on the moon was lost for similar cost-saving reasons, it shouldn't surprise us by this point to permanently legally lose modern content.
I almost didn't recognise Dan with his new glasses. Lookin' good, bud.
Regarding that "less risk" thing that's probably the direction we're going to go. And we've sorta seen that already. No way today a company would produce a show like for example Avatar The Last Airbender, at least it wouldn't be a kids show. No way themes of war, genocide, loss of family, refugee crisis and murder would be in a kids show today, even if it would result in the best kids show to ever exist (like I think ATLA is).
Entertainment today and in the future will be dumbed down, boring and non-conflicting to cater to everyone and no one at the same time. The occasional studio will come along and experiment, make the best show of the decade but it will fly under the radar because it's not a huge studio.
I'm getting concerned in the gap for no-service, ill-serviced internet to geographic and economic areas having little to no access to disappearing physical media as well as your digital "ownership" being reliant on a service that may or may not be around or viable if internet sevvice becomes and issue for whatever reason. (No internet, no access to you digitail purchases or property)
There are rumnours that Disney is planning to sell its linear TV assets sucha s ABC and ESPN.
The CW is a U.S. based network previously owned by WB and CBS.
I work as an accountant in film and TV and it's part of my job to pay writers. The writer/producers on my 30-minute made for cable TV show make more than $7,400.0/week for base pay. Then they get an amount per episode for producer pay. Then they get nearly $17,000.00 for each script they write. Then they get character payments. Then on top of all of that, they get residuals. Oh, and let's not forget that they also have a great pension plan fully funded by the studios.
My show was cut short 5 weeks because of the strike which means the lowest writer/producer made over $360,000.00 in 39 weeks. It offends me to see that writer walking the picket lines holding up signs demanding a living wage. It think their definition of living wage means something completely different than mine - or anyone's.
Granted, we did have a couple of staff writers who were new to the union, and only made their base pay which was over $3,700.00/week - that's nearly $145,000 for the same 39 weeks. Not bad for an entry level position, and that's still more that 99% of the people who worked on the show - some of whom have been in the union for 20 years. Only a couple of department heads make more than the new writers, and only by a few hundred dollars.
But don't take my word for it - Google "WGA Rate Sheet" and see for yourself what the writers in Hollywood earn. I am sure there are outliers and exceptions, but they will be few, and at the end of the day, the 11,000 members of the WGA still make more than 100 times what the 168,000 IATSE members make - not including the writers residuals.
maybe if they made tv shows and movies worth watching id care more, as of now, im fine with the writers strike never ending and hollywood crashing
This strike and the resulting studio actions make me awfully glad for my Plex server. Way too many stories floating around right now about titles pulled from services like Prime Video for my liking, and I don't watch a lot of moneymaking blockbusters.
If it was worth watching then they wouldn't have pulled it.
Sadly, by them gradually phasing out physical media, eventually, there will be no *legal* way to do personal media servers.
@@harrkev You're confusing something like Disney dropping Disney programming from their service with something like Amazon no longer having the rights to stream a particular show or movie
@@InfernosReaper You're assuming I only want the latest and newest shows and movies coming out of Hollywood. Most of it is dross. I'm more worried about not being able to watch classic HK movies or other obscure titles after purchasing them on Amazon or iTunes because they lost the license. This has already happened more than a few times.
@@Turnabout I don't even vaguely get how you are making that assumption.
That aside, it is a shame that licensing deals let people suddenly lose access to what they specifically paid for.
In those cases, downloading stuff from piracy sites isn't even piracy, but getting what you paid for
I would NEVER value streamed content over copies you have a to home. Not only because if you can just stream it, you don't own it, but mainly because of quality. I need to have it on my system (ether digital or via DVD) to not have bandwith compression artifacts. I notice this all the time on Netflix. They randomly lower the quality to prevent buffering. I HATE that. I pay for 4K but they don't deliver me ACTUAL 4K. Make it at least downloadable so that I don't have to really on my internet speed when watching.
But as long as they don't sell digital copies which you can safe on your hard drive, I will never value their original digital methods over physical copies.
Value curve goes like this:
1: physical copies
2: downloadable digital copies you can actually safe on your system and play from any third party media player.
3: pirated content
4: content you can download but only play through their websites or apps. (looking at you, Steam)
5: stream content.
Korean TV shows and series are culturally very different, I'd expect Australian and UK production companies will benefit more of this. House of the Dragon is just continuing to film. as they are mostly under UK contracts.
13:00 i know Linus was joking but Spain does have different localisation than Latin America.. so I wouldn’t be surprised if Australia have something different
Sounds like, given the choice between making stuff people want to watch (and surviving) or keeping pushing 'the message' (and destroying the company/industry), they have firmly chosen to fly the plane straight into the ground.
Humans are creative, some so much they can't stop themselves from creating things. Hollywood's business model will have no effect on this. The creations will still be made, but they won't be mad with high budgets in Hollywood any more. Some of the best shows came from small budgets though, so maybe there will be a new golden age of TV, but online.
The point I see in this strike is that the writers were making woke crap for a long time. The entire industry has been bleeding money with shows and movies no one wants to watch. What incentive do studios have to pay MORE money to writers creating content that is bankrupting them anyway. And where do the studios get the money to pay more to writers when they've actually been losing billions for the last several years.
Pouty face Linus thumbnail for the first video back is a bad choice right now for LTT
I wish for our friends Aussies and New Zealanders swift and easy sailings under the black flags ;)
If it's impossible to buy the product from the company because they refuse to release physical media of it and don't offer it for streaming, then downloading the movie or show can't be considered piracy, as you are not costing the creator any money.
Anime is already mainstream for the youth of the moment. Crazy how that changed like gaming did for the newest generations... and I'm fucking here for it
I understand that while the writers may not have a lot of resources individually, the unions do, and they use it to try to compensate the union members during strikes.
I seriously read "onions"... I was so confused and my world was a lie for about two whole seconds.
Grew up with Smallville , Gilmore Girls, and Charmed all on the CW
14:42 "Because you're on the show, same as me, and yet somehow you managed to come out of pretty much every controversy completely unscathed while I dig myself deeper and deeper into various holes."
That's because Luke has the common sense to not run his mouth until he says something stupid. Maybe it's because he still has a somewhat functioning filter between his brain and his mouth. Going on emotional rants in front of millions of potential viewers/listeners isn't exactly smart, especially when you're not really an expert, but basically an influencer with deep pockets and lots of subscribers. It's this behavior that started the while shitshow earlier this month.
Giant comp. : STOP PHYSICAL RELEASE. STREAMING ONLY
Pirates : NAH THAT AIN'T WORK. THEY WILL RECORD IT
A lot of managers have a short term mentality. Earning money in a short period of time. That’s a problem nowadays.
I would rather not... but I also will say that I'm not interested in paying for media that is frankly low quality pig slop. In addition to that, I have certain shows that I like to watch every once in a while and I started archiving this stuff for this exact reason. What happens when the publishing houses decide that you can't play with their toys anymore? If you didn't get a copy, you're SOL. This will drive many back to the high seas.
atleast we can import because every bluray is region free nowadays idk about dvds
The problem with the writer strike is that they were producing a lot of crap before the strike. Why keep the writers on? They weren’t making the company any money anyway.
Why remove the content in general? Just leave it on the platform for the few people who might want to watch it. It can't be that expensive (for someone like Disney) to store it?
Im American, Smallville was my favorite show when I was younger.
I think you’re completely wrong about the strike. The problem is the people don’t want to pay for so many different streaming services. It will need to be something more like cable TV where you get generally the same content will matter who your provider is with some minor exceptions, of course. The way studios monetize streaming is going to need to change. At the same time, CEOs need to not be making multiple times the amount of salary, enhancements that these employees are demanding. It’s time to actually deal with corporate greed.
I mean if I can't legally aquire something by any means (*cough*nintendo soundtracks*cough*) then what other choice am I left, right?
Australians government is so bad and everything is so pricy there, it seems like such a nightmare to live there
CW and Smallville are/were popular-ish here in the US too.
Happy to see LMG back. To a new beginning!
Linus says that people with bad internet connections won't be able to access the highest quality versions of media.
What, like most Australians with our 70mb/s connections?
Not gonna lie I never stopped using "old methods" to compliment my subscriptions
Talking about payments for actors. I just looked up how much they get and on average they make over 30 $ per hour. That's crazy.
If I use a stupid calculation of 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, this would result in 262.800 $. But they don't act 8760 hours per movie. So no actor should EVER get payed more then even just halb a million per movie.
Australia film industry has been a big thing since the 80's. MadMax started there, it was not a US film francise. Australian New Wave
It seems like I've never been there but onto Mickey Mouse and I was born in 1985 and my whole life mickey was a thing people knew of but wasn't current
If i cant get legally probably i just don't watched. I have many streaming platforms and if i like some movie i simply bought it... because it's typical that yesterday was online and today is gone
14:52 Linus' self awareness is somehow refreshing and assures me that things are on the right track.
His comment is also pretty on point. Luke is very good at keeping his nose clean, despite the company he keeps. 😂
I support the strikes because they keep the bad writers away from the drawing board. I'd be very happy with fewer films if they were higher quality.
oh, are the times coming back when you bought copies on the school yard?
thats what you get with this : a huge black market
honestly if I look at really good movies in the past few years, few came from hollywood. Most were indie productions or came from Europe, Korea, Japan, etc.
You know what also sucks?... Three things: The fact that Netflix canceled their very solid Marvel shows (yea, I liked most of it, I don't care what anyone says), that's one. And then of course the rights went to Disney/Marvel. This means they also left Netflix, the reason I got it back in 2015 in the first place, and then only became available on Disney Plus, which I'm just not going to take. That's two. - And three, they also stopped being manufactured for Blu-ray, which they were under Netflix... I only managed to get a few of the shows and some of the seasons, but I'm screwed out of getting them from any proper store. - Thanks, Disney! Those shows weren't even made by you!
And no, the whole "get it from somewhere else bruh" way is not the answer. I don't care for that. I refuse to even install a torrent-software or anything anymore. It's not frickin' 2003 anymore, and I'm also not a child. - Let me fkn buy it! - It's so funny how companies won't LET you throw money at them in certain ways anymore. - OPTIONS... we need OPTIONS
Australians will go back to pirating! We stole the entire run of GoT and didn’t even bat an eye.
Anime is not a genre, it's a medium
Only started watching Smallville because I knew John Schnieder was in it as Johnathan Kent, honestly its an extremely well written and interesting show for the most part
Smallville is in the US. My mom watched it a lot
Thanks Disney for distroying my future career in film
I am so sick of unions and strikes. Actors start their "careers" knowing they won't be rich unless they become stars, but they still go into the business, so why don't they just negotiate better pay for themselves when they get a job? Now auto workers are demanding a 40% pay increase, that is a raise of almost half their existing pay. I say if union workers strike and demand redicilous pay, fire them and hire new employees. Personally I beleive if you stop going to work and won't go back that means you quit.
"Let's make more money by not allowing sales of our product." OK, cutting loses I guess but the statement is still true.
People keep defending copyright, but this is the reality of what copyright will do. Copyright currently favors corporations, smaller creators don't benefit nearly as much, and if copyright were actually enforced in its current state then fandoms and conventions would just not exist. The only time art thrives today is when corporations leave people alone and don't enforce their copyright.
The only negative to piracy is you don't own the pirated media,
Yk what that kinda sounds like...
Piracy allows you to download and burn your movies to a disk!
How about watching international movies and series which are still being made