This could well be the craziest year Hollywood’s ever seen! Who’s going to come out on top? Who’s going to fall on their faces? Will the assistants rise up? Justice for the writers? What do you see coming in the year ahead.
Let's start the ball rolling? Disney is going to have a decidedly less giant-baked in world swallowing blockbuster of a year than in the past. In December will we be saying, the Disney honeymoon is over, or that they'll taken a year to restock the pond for a new era of global conquest?
Disney blew its wad this year. Everything will seem like an anti-climax now. You cannot go THAT big and then just tinker. And Disney Plus is already getting stale.
As long as we're at it, assistants won't get paid less or more than minimum wage. If you think someone's gonna pay them more, you don't understand the law of supply and demand.
I have a theory about the only thing that will get the Academy's attention on #OscarsSoWhite or #OscarsSoMale. That is if women boycott the Oscar ceremony en masse. A half-full auditorium might do it. What do you think that will get them to change?
I predict that the agencies will figure out how to pay their assistants better before they figure out the ATA thing. Sadly, I don't think the assistants will be treated much better, but at least they'll be paid close to a living wage.
Sale of MGM. Sale of Lions Gate for spare parts. Streaming wars start to materially damage the balance sheets of the Hollywood players (as opposed to Silicon Valley players). Writers Guild wins; Endeavor Content folds.
Will this be the year that someone finally tells Netflix their algorithm sucks and no one believes that having more data is helping them since the vast majority of their content is below mediocre?
Disney fails to integrate 20th Century or whatever they care to call it into a cohesive theatrical strategy. By end of the year it will be announced that 20th Main Unit is scaling down and only doing direct-to-streaming movies. "Avatar" content will release under Walt Disney banner. Searchlight will eventually be sold. History repeats from Touchstone-Miramax times. Analysts will start to more aggressively question what Disney paid for in the 21CF deal and Iger definitely won't get renewed beyond 2021.
I think assistant rates will rise, but with that cost it might be mean less assistants and more responsibilities on each one and maybe it means less assistants being promoted to coordinators or junior managers.
Let's start the ball rolling? Disney is going to have a decidedly less giant-baked in world swallowing blockbuster of a year than in the past. In December will we be saying, the Disney honeymoon is over, or that they'll taken a year to restock the pond for a new era of global conquest?
Disney blew its wad this year. Everything will seem like an anti-climax now. You cannot go THAT big and then just tinker. And Disney Plus is already getting stale.
As long as we're at it, assistants won't get paid less or more than minimum wage. If you think someone's gonna pay them more, you don't understand the law of supply and demand.
I have a theory about the only thing that will get the Academy's attention on #OscarsSoWhite or #OscarsSoMale. That is if women boycott the Oscar ceremony en masse. A half-full auditorium might do it. What do you think that will get them to change?
Spencer Baumgarten janitorial services gets a license for life from ICM.
Netflix P/E ratio is 109. By way of comparison, Disney is in the 23. Apple is 26. That seems more than a little out of whack. Thoughts?
I predict that the agencies will figure out how to pay their assistants better before they figure out the ATA thing. Sadly, I don't think the assistants will be treated much better, but at least they'll be paid close to a living wage.
Sale of MGM. Sale of Lions Gate for spare parts. Streaming wars start to materially damage the balance sheets of the Hollywood players (as opposed to Silicon Valley players). Writers Guild wins; Endeavor Content folds.
Will this be the year that someone finally tells Netflix their algorithm sucks and no one believes that having more data is helping them since the vast majority of their content is below mediocre?
Hopefully I’m going to find the right leave-in conditioner for my dry ends
The new Ghostbusters will be a social media shitshow that may or may not affect the general populations view.
Disney fails to integrate 20th Century or whatever they care to call it into a cohesive theatrical strategy. By end of the year it will be announced that 20th Main Unit is scaling down and only doing direct-to-streaming movies. "Avatar" content will release under Walt Disney banner. Searchlight will eventually be sold. History repeats from Touchstone-Miramax times. Analysts will start to more aggressively question what Disney paid for in the 21CF deal and Iger definitely won't get renewed beyond 2021.
Gersh just signed with with WGA...
Lionsgate finally gets bought.
I mean, HBO will have a disappointing year, and thus won't be able to aid the foundering launch of the MAX service.
Also, HBO will have nothing this year to further wobble the clay feet of HBO Max.
I think assistant rates will rise, but with that cost it might be mean less assistants and more responsibilities on each one and maybe it means less assistants being promoted to coordinators or junior managers.