That expectation was never true for the whole Japanese economy (and referred to large corporations, not the small companies that did most of the work on contract), and is even less true now.
The whole reason the film industry is on the west coast is that they were trying to avoid paying for Edison’s patent on the motion picture camera. So, yeah, Hollywood was founded on IP violations.
A lot of movies get their budgets from hedge funds because they aren’t generally strongly correlated with the overall market but that’s where the earnings of movies return, not the recipients of the 200M$ spent
Where do you think all the money for the biggest box office movies goes to? Like 3-5 people on top, then little goes to the main cast/crew, then quality fx and editing are an afterthought.
Increasingly convinced that Hollywood is a scam. Someone is pocketing all that money
I would be shocked (shocked, I say) if Hollywood wasn’t mostly a front for money laundering rings.
Always has been.
The plot for The Producers didn’t come from nowhere
The Japanese economy is artificially cheap.
At the same time though, you can save a lot of money if you do everything in house. Especially if you have inexpensive labor.
Not really, because you have to maintain that capacity when you aren’t using it.
Idk, could be on a gig labor plan
Yes Japan with its famous expectation of lifelong corporate loyalty kept things cheap with a gig economy.
That expectation was never true for the whole Japanese economy (and referred to large corporations, not the small companies that did most of the work on contract), and is even less true now.
And the American economy is artificially expensive
The whole reason the film industry is on the west coast is that they were trying to avoid paying for Edison’s patent on the motion picture camera. So, yeah, Hollywood was founded on IP violations.
Edison falsely claimed the patent.
Nah, no way. Edison was on the up and up about everything he did.
The fact we acknowledge Edison for anything other than being a piece of shit is a travesty.
A lot of movies get their budgets from hedge funds because they aren’t generally strongly correlated with the overall market but that’s where the earnings of movies return, not the recipients of the 200M$ spent
I mean yeah.
Where do you think all the money for the biggest box office movies goes to? Like 3-5 people on top, then little goes to the main cast/crew, then quality fx and editing are an afterthought.