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Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If American companies’ track record is anything to go by, I can have a guess.

They stopped treating their workers properly (like not paying their writers)
They overinvested funds into stuff they didn’t need, disney buying lucasarts and such
Workers are sick of being abused
Oh no, our exploitative labour funds!

I expect to be dead wrong. No I’ll read the article

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Taco2112@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think you’re right but according to the article, you’re wrong, it’s because the massive studios don’t get enough tax breaks.

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golli@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

They overinvested funds into stuff they didn’t need (disney buying lucasarts and such)

I do agree that they overspend on a lot of things, but in my book buying Lucas Arts for $4b was a steal. Even with the way misshandeld it (bar some highlights like Andor), this was most certainly a good investment.

I mean the sequels were bad and yet those alone made more than $4b at the boxoffice (yes I know that isn’t profit, but just to give some perspective). And star wars is also a powerhouse in terms of merchandise sales, think of the amount of baby Yoda toys being sold.

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ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hollywood is highly unionised. The writers are being paid.

Disney makes a lot of profit from Lucasfilm.

Workers are sick of being out of work.

Etc.

LA is more expensive to shoot in than London, Vancouver, Prague or Atlanta, and the crews there aren’t any better, the equipment and facilities aren’t better, it has an advantageous climate.

LA isn’t competing with the tax breaks elsewhere, and meanwhile the streaming age has matured into its profit-making phase, so the boom in production is over.
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- Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh that union must be new. Did you not hear about the strikes recently? Two years ago, and the job market still hasn’t recovered. In some shows they were winging it without writers.
  
  And that’s separate from these weird “profit sharing” contracts they’ve been giving to actors in recent years too. Only to then do some creative bookkeeping and write down everything they do as a loss.
  
  Doesn’t make hollywood rich, but it definitely makes the shareholders rich
  
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  - ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You have misunderstood. Hollywood’s writers have been fully unionised since the 1930s. Shows were not winging it without writers, as showrunners were still supervising things as part of permitted work in their producorial capacity.
    
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    Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ahh, in that case those are some meaningless darn unions. No wonder they had to go on strike
    
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