• Uriel-238@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    We kinda knew this was going to happen. New Hollywood really wants to be classic Hollywood, where the studios own the lives of the actors and control every aspect. But I expected them to start by cyber-thesbianning Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable.

    But yeah, the studios are going through a creativity crisis, now decades into a best practices run of avoiding new ideas for less risky sequels and high concept films, preferring spectacle over introspection and character study.

    The copyright maximalism and Hollywood accounting isn’t really about piracy or greed so much as desperation to keep old promises of exponential dividend growth.

    Every bubble eventually pops, and the longer they try to keep it intact, the more disastrous the outcome.

    In the meantime, I look forward to when small indie directors can star Bogart and Harlow in their concept film.

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      In our lifetime we’re going to see a lot of stuff become public domain and there’s going to be remixes, scene clipping and overdubbing of all kinds. I’m trying to figure out how to cash in.

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        In our lifetime we’re going to see a lot of stuff become public domain

        Not if Disney has anything to say about it…

        I fully expect them to claim they have rights to images of people who have started in Marvel movies because they own Marvel

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          Steamboat Willie hits public domain on Jan 1st. I’ve already got an over dub I can’t wait to release.

          Edit: Fuck Disney.

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            Disney changed their intro to Steamboat Willie to stop that. It will take a legal fight to get them to obey the rules.

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            Only 67 years after it was supposed to!

            And I’ll still be surprised if it really happens, or if Mickey ever goes public.