Netflix Is Forcing Hollywood into a Talent War

Post by xiphias2 » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 10:51 AM UTC

Latteland wrote: post #3

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #2

Translation: Hollywood was underpaying producers relative to the value they generated. Netflix saw an opportunity and signed deals with producers more in line with the value they generated. Because of this competition, Hollywood is now paying producers more. Sounds like an unequivocal good thing for film and television. Talented producers get paid more. More money is being invested in films and shows. Obviously, film…

It's a great thing for the real creative leader types. I've wondered if this would happen in software. Of course we are amazingly well off by the standards of most fields. I still feel based on the value we give companies that there is room for compensation to greatly increase. In the movie and tv biz, I think everything is basically unionized for regular crew and actors, so they have basic decent pay. Is there any d…

Post by da_chicken » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 11:05 AM UTC

mateuszf wrote: post #8

lesserknowndan wrote: post #5

Given the quality of big budget films like The Last Jedi and The Predator, I would say they have attacked the wrong target. Or maybe the battle has already been won.

The Last Jedi was pretty pretty good to me.

Post by swarnie_ » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 11:10 AM UTC

da_chicken wrote: post #13

mateuszf wrote: post #8

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The Last Jedi was pretty pretty good to me.

The production values were certainly great. It has some issues with pacing, theme consistency, certain plot elements, and characters.

Post by magicalhippo » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 11:21 AM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #6

cylinder wrote: post #4

Most of these shows are junk. If you don't like comic books or dark murder based series you're not too happy with Netflix these days. It's going to be one big ABC now. What do you expect when you hire one person to churn out seven shows at once? Where's the creative risk taking? Shonda Rhimes? Ugh.

It’s funny, before the ads annoyed me. But now I’m wary of investing time into any shows because I’m afraid of all the extra time they waste with filler content like unnecessary drama or actors looking at each other’s faces, presumably to make it feel like you’re getting more minutes of content for your money. But I feel like it’s wasting my time. At least I have the option of fast forward, though more likely I’ll ju…

Post by IMTDb » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 11:33 AM UTC

xiphias2 wrote: post #11

Latteland wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a great thing for the real creative leader types. I've wondered if this would happen in software. Of course we are amazingly well off by the standards of most fields. I still feel based on the value we give companies that there is room for compensation to greatly increase. In the movie and tv biz, I think everything is basically unionized for regular crew and actors, so they have basic decent pay. Is there any d…

With the low interest rates cheap capital is accessible to selected companies. The cheap capital is used to acquire monopoly position instead of just competing for talent. I don't think the biggest problem is that software engineers are under-compensated. It's more like assets are overpriced, so we're not able to buy houses.