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post-covid box-office decline is real. lost income from that never got completely offset by streaming deals.
didn't help that it happened almost exactly the same time as vfx heavy capeshit domination of the box office began to end + writers strike droughts
that capeshit domination and constant underbidding over a period of a decade had created unsustainable pipelines that immediately began to crumble, even in places like india where a lot of work got outsourced to because of costs.
now add models like aleph to the mix and you'll see budgets get cut and ultimately most junior shotwork will simply get done by compositors on big productions, or by one-man-editor-fx-comp guys for smaller projects. paying junior salaries so some kids can do dust hits makes no sense going forward.