The Cost of Good Movies • Hacker News Board

Re: The Cost of Good Movies

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Post by g42gregory » Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 6:01 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #29

g42gregory wrote: post #18

As a general rule (there are notable exceptions), I don't watch any movies made past 2019/20. Most of them seem to have some sort of a messaging embedded inside. Regardless of the nature of the messaging, I figure that they should pay me for watching it, not the other way around. I hope this would change soon. John Wick was awesome though...

If you don't like movies with messaging, I have bad new for you about pretty much whole movies history. Because, oh boy, old movies were quite big on messaging ... and they even had codes/guidlines to ensure messaging is right.

That's a good point. I used to watch NCIS and liked it a lot. Then I learned that certain contractors were literally financing the production. I lost interest soon thereafter.

Re: The Cost of Good Movies

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Post by AlbertCory » Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 8:41 PM UTC

AlbertCory wrote: post #58

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've wanted to do something like this, but I'm not sure of the 'public viewing' licensing / permissions / royalties required. I looked it up a while back, but life got in the way and so the idea was mostly lost (thanks for the reminder).

You can get Public Performance Rights. They ask (1) how big is the venue, (2) are you charging money, and (3) is it advertised outside your organization. Remember: it's negotiable. Besides MPLC, there is Swank.

One more thing: if you're not fixated on the big budget Hollywood flicks, there are a ton of smaller distributors; usually easier to deal with.

Re: The Cost of Good Movies

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Post by throwaway14356 » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 8:25 PM UTC

mk_stjames wrote: post #36

> But if I did edit a feature length film that became a major box-office hit, I should get some residuals to help tide me over. This is the line that made me sit and think about this whole construct for a bit. I've worked as an engineer for multi-billion-dollar companies. I've designed components and whole systems that then get put into mass production and stay in production for years. Safety-critical in some cases.…

>Should my work back then be continuously rewarded if that company still uses that design, unchanged, and still generates revenue from it?

I believe so but for a different reason. I think a model where you are paid very little but remain the owner of your code, a hit and miss where you gradually accumulating income over many years, could work wonderfully if you also remain partially responsible for maintenance. The revenue shared should go up for every hour of effort but be a fixed part of earnings a bit like stock options but with various safeguards build in. If the company goes bankrupt at 1% of the [say] 30 year period they should pay 99% of the agreed upon salary as if a normal job.

Over the 30 years one could agree to pay many times that amount.

I've previously called it a priest hood where each monk maintains a specific module or library. The less work they do the better the results.