Camp Allen News Update: No Showbiz

COMMENTS (21)

• Congratulations Nikki! You’re officially a bitter bitch

  Comment by MJFilms — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 4:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Movies and TV are part of the Digital/Internet arena’s now….
  Get used to it.

  Comment by ReelBusy — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 4:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• why are you wishing the business dead? if it goes away then who will read an entertainment specific site?

  Comment by elliott — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 5:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hollywood should have seen this coming after decades of making their industry an investment black hole.

  Comment by Furious D — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 6:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is Nikki wrong? Look around you people. Who the hell is actually working in this town? and when I say ‘working’ I mean actually getting paid. Before you say, ‘tons of people’ I would respectfully say, ‘not as many as before’…’oh but it’s quality! Quality is now winning!’…right. Have you been to the movies lately?

  It’s the worst I have ever seen it in this town. Consolidation is killing this town…

  Along with every single news story that trumpets BO #’s and not quality and the massive numbers of graduates from every two bit university with a film school…

  It’s a mess out there. At least Nikki knows it. Do you?

  Comment by All Hat No Cattle — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 6:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Man, you people lack nuance. Nikki isn’t wishing the demise of the business. She’s making a tongue-in-cheek point. Der.

  Comment by Uh..Der — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 6:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• OK folks, I can only assume you missed this over the past decade but Hollywood has become no different than KFC, McDonalds and Olive Garden.

  It’s all basically Corporate Test Kitchens (also known as Studios) who design everything for ‘mouth-feel’ and that deadly combo of Salt/Fat/Sugar. It’s all nerd-fart comedy or boom-boom and bosoms measured in doses to please the sensibilities of the lab rats in the seats. It all produces fat around the abdomen and fat around the brain. Our minds are as out of shape as our bodies and effortlessly manipulated. Don’t even get me started on stupid television.

  I urge you to go to a film from Italy (Quiet Chaos) or France (Summer Hours) or Japan (Departures) and realize what happened to American filmmaking in the last decade. It lost most of its humanity, that thing that connects us to others.

  Comment by nyguy — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 6:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hollywood?…Oh, yeah…I remember Hollywood…I think…

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 6:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Take a look at the box office, people are still going to the movies. The investments may be riskier, but everything is in this economy. At the end of the day, all the studios are columns in an excel sheet for one of the big media companies, whose stock is plummeting b/c the rest of their columns can’t hold up. Hollywood is clearly not infallable, but let’s not place the money blame squarely on them.

  Also, this conference is about the entertainment sector. That’s the focus. I’m sure showbiz will come up in the agenda.

  Comment by AnonY — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 6:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Investors look for growth opportunities. Growth is in the digital/internet realm, not the movie industry which has been around for a long time and employees a lot of unions. This reminds me of the Auto industry. We all know how the union-employed-GMs of the world ended up. Watch out Hollywood, there is some strong competition emerging out there.

  Comment by The Realist — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 7:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Its inevitable, digital and new media are the way of the future. It is basically a race to see who can monetize it effectively.

  Comment by Film Fold — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 8:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Just read another news piece about this confab and Lebron James is going.

  NO moguls needed but Lebron is going.

  LMAO

  Life is good.

  It’s all about the fancy windbreaker you get at the conference….

  Comment by ReelBusy — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 9:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Amen, Nikki.

  Comment by markZ — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 11:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 75% of hollywood is not working right now……….

  that alone should tell you the true state of the movie, tv business

  money can still be made in this business, but the 75% that is not working right now should have never been created in the first place, those jobs were created by the hedge fund ponzi con wall street artists, and they are true artists for having bankrupted california, london, ny and many other states

  Comment by mr big — Tuesday July 7, 2009 @ 11:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• wacka wacka wacka. internet is media. only reason they still print paper is because old people are still living’…

  Comment by whatever — Wednesday July 8, 2009 @ 1:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nyguy is right. I was thinking the very same thing yesterday. Now that the Europeans are doing stronger more commercial stories their films are totally blowing ours away.

  Comment by bklynguy — Wednesday July 8, 2009 @ 5:52am PDT  Reply to this post

• Ask yourself this question: who is introducing innovative new services and revolutionary new products that truly are changing the social, media and business landscapes worldwide? It’s NOT Hollywood. Silicon Valley/tech companies are the driving force leading such unprecedented change. Who would you rather listen to?

  Comment by Bob M — Wednesday July 8, 2009 @ 5:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• MR BIG,

  You, sir, are a jackass. The “hedge fund ponzi con wall street artists” as you call them largely put to work people BTL. Tell me, what crew jobs can you tell me shouldn’t ever have been created? Was it on the 75% of Universal’s slate that is financed by the hegde funds? How about the other $2Billion that has come into this industry, again, largely employing BTL workers throughout this country and the rest of the world?

  Comment by oldmantime — Wednesday July 8, 2009 @ 8:08am PDT  Reply to this post

• One of the big jokes is how they got SAG to hunker and shiver like a scared puppy and pee all over the industry!

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday July 8, 2009 @ 11:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• Don’t think they’re talking about production…but that doesn’t mean the end of Hollywood Production.

  Everyone there is concerned about monopolizing the distribution / delivery systems and how to get paid from those systems before they continue to dump their content on it.

  That’s the concern. Content is still king…relax…the production jobs will be back as soon as everyone figures out how to get paid from them.

  Comment by LT — Wednesday July 8, 2009 @ 4:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• ECONOMY SUCKS, thats the only reason not many people are working not our movies are inferior to european films, name one euro pic that made 200+ mil in five days……….. and new media, like was said soon as they can figure out how to get paid for it, plus another number only 12% of folks are on line……..hummmm, sure new media is the way of the future……way in the future try 20 yrs, just ask the editor and chief of “WIRED” if yall checked out npr today,
  FINALLY, this is what happens when you piss off producers, all the work goes outta town air go 75% unemployed…..I find that odd though that my union reports just the opposite of 75% working….. none the less it was great to read all the opinions

  Comment by gratefully employed — Wednesday July 8, 2009 @ 10:58pm PDT  Reply to this post