Or studios killed the Directors and screenwriters? Blockbuster, blockbuster, blockbuster? Money makes the world go around, the world go world around, the world go around...
No lies. Everyone would like to sell a script for a million dollars. But! Have you recently recognized in the theater of a new John Huston, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Bogdanovich, Coppola, Tarantino, Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas, Zemeckis, Cameron, Bergman, Polanski, Altman, De Palma, Tarkovsky...
Studio hire professionals who know how to make a movie, and of course work very well. Where we lost the FILM in the meantime?
Independent films, short films, festivals ... elementary school from which to recruit good workers?
Have you thought about that?
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Regardless of how you feel about the output of major studios....thousands of independent films are made every year, and there has never been a better time in the history of the world to be a screenwriter. Srecno, Stevan!
Jordan** Peele, but yes. Indie/Art house is becoming the new mainstream platforms. With streaming and web sourcing based distribution channels, indie fim has greater impact of attentions, from these dominanting forces of the marketplace. Hollywood budgets will steadily decrease, which will widen the funnel for independent productions to break into household recognitions. Never have young and diverse fim goers had such access or enthusiasm for independent film narratives/storytellers. Indie features are the new leveraging tool for "mainstream" high-marketplace success.
In 2010, Gareth Edwards, wrote, directed and did the effects for a film called Monsters.
Monsters was made on a low budget, with Edwards doing the effects on his computer at home, at home in the UK, not LA.
Sure he's had some experience in effects before, made a short or two, but this was his first full on feature, his breakout as it were.
The flim showed how inventive he was, what a good storyteller he was...
His next film was Godzilla, and then Rogue One.
Sp, I'd argue the exact opposite, there's no better time for talented storytellers to shine because the barriers to entry have never been lower.
Hollywood has at least two streams. Big Budget and Arthouse (and it's subsets, etc.) Big studios are run as a business. They expect both their blockbusters and arthouse films to make $$$ and win awards. Many times one finances the other.
There are exceptions, Dan. That's why Universal signed Jason Blum to a ten year deal.
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This is why so much talent has migrated to TV.