>guy who made The Brutalist (nominated for 10 Oscars) made zero dollars from the film and is flat broke
>guy who made Anora (Best Picture Winner) can't even afford rent and won't have kids because it's too expensive

What the FUCK is happening to Hollywood?!

>>211443883 (OP)
Those awards means nothing. The judges don’t even watch the films

Pretending to be broke is standard for people in the arts. They're all trust fund babbies, how do you think they afforded rent up until now?

>>211443883 (OP)
I don't really care. I just watch anime and videos of palestinians/iranians dying in horrible ways and eat red meat every night.

>>211443916
Your "country" will be wiped off the map by the end of this decade btw

>>211443883 (OP)
You don't get any money for those awards and they've lost their prestige. There was a time that people might check out a movie on DVD because it won the Oscar but that market is completely gone along with any respect for the award.

>>211443883 (OP)
Just because the "academy" thinks its high art doesn't mean it sells tickets

>>211443930
scary

>>211443914
Huh? The Brutalist dude is a high-school dropout who was raised by a single mom in Arizona.

>>211443952
Both films were commercial successes. But current contracts fuck over the director when it comes to royalties.

I can buy The Brutalist guy being broke because he's only had one really successful movie, but if Sean Baker can't afford rent at this point he must be signing the worst contracts known to man or he is just awful with money.

>>211443883 (OP)
why didn't they put a few bucks aside? I'm sure they could have made those movies with 10k less.

>>211444033
Directors don't have much leverage these days. Cinema is dead.

>>211444057
Long full-time production cycle means no time for side work for several years.

>>211444062
Directors barely even direct anymore these days, it's just various flavours of producers and consultants fucking shit up.

>>211443883 (OP)
I point this out time and time again that since it's standard in contracts for actors and directors to get a share of the profits the studios inflate the cost of films so the film comes out as a loss on paper this isn't new and happened to Peter Jackson with New Line Cinema despite the LotR trilogy making over $3 billion at the box office one trick they do is for producers to loan the studio(themselves) money to make the film at very high interest rates

>wins Oscar
>jumps in front of a train

>>211443883 (OP)
>Make movie
>Take wage from budget
>Release movie
>Awards
>Pitch new movie with award leverage
>Negotiate royalties
>Take wage from budget
>Release movie
>Awards + passive money

Or you make merch deals which doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.
Jaws and Jurassic park made its money on merch, not tickets.

>>211443883 (OP)
>make terrible degenerate movies
>receive praise and accolades from other degenerates
>end up broke
Sometimes there's justice in this world.

Why do you think they campaign so hard for indie movies

>>211443883 (OP)
Oscars are fucking gay
The Brutalist features literal gay fucking

Fuck off.

>>211444155
>Be a giant fraud
>die
Good. No one in South Africa thought Sixto Rodriguez actually died

>>211443883 (OP)
it's why all the actors nowadays are nepo babies
only rich kids can afford to live in LA and have the lifestyle of hollywood actor

>>211444762
Pretty much.
Being an actor is for nep babies, government plants, kikes, and litteral slaves.

Everyone else has retreated to social media and are all rallying the wagons around streaming shows they can turn into long term tv shows.

>>211443883 (OP)
Sean makes perfume and high fashion commercials, how is he broke? Nicolas Winding Refn has a day rate of like a million dollars for his commercial directing, and at this point he’s not as famous, acclaimed, or commercially successful than Baker.

>>211444908
*as Baker

>>211444908
>refn
is a nepo baby too
his father who worked with von trier
which is hilarious because von trier and refn have a beef

The academy gifts you a goodie bag worth like 200k if you win an award. I don't understand why there's no option to demand a cash equivalent. This is insane spending honestly

>>211444975
interesting to see a bag of completely useless slop made for a much higher income bracket

>>211443883 (OP)
"Broke" is a pretty wide spectrum. I genuinely wonder what his definition of it is.

>>211444975
All of that stuff is donated by the companies for functionally free advertising to celebrity clientele so they can claim celebs use their stuff or rope them into marketing deals. The cannabis products there are funny because they all come from the same parent company and are absolutely not worth any of the listed prices, those margins would be disgusting in California let alone anywhere else that sells them.

>>211444907

This is nothing new. Directors rarely make any money directly from directing films. They mostly make money in other investments that they can make because they are big names. James Cameron made nothing from Titanic although that was partly due to him giving up his directing fee due to being behind schedule when filming but it still stands that he made no money off the film despite it being hugely profitable

>>211445021
He made zero dollars off the film after all the promotion. The other guy can't make rent.

>guy who made The Brutalist made zero dollars
completely justified

>>211443883 (OP)
>both movies suck dick
>both directors will need to suck dick to keep making movies that suck
Succulent pottery

>>211443981
Bullshit. Says who? Him? And you believed him?

>>211443883 (OP)
I am sick of hearing "cant afford kids"

People have been having kids in poverty for thousands of years, through the great depression, WW1, etc

These people are why the white race is dying. "hurr durrr i cant afford kids"

>>211443883 (OP)
Honestly? This is plonked

>>211445047
>mogus lacking cuck edit

>>211443883 (OP)
what's the brutalist?

>>211443883 (OP)
well really, what the fuck is anora lmao too

>>211444975
What a load of shit. I'd like the wellness retreat, the stay in Barcelona and I'd be interested in the cutting board if it's not small, but the other shit can get in the bin.

>>211443916
shalom vile shlomo