VFX is 250K for 5 shots. Total VFX budget is 500K. And total post production is 10 Mil. Or ~14% of the whole budget. These days I bet it's probably double or triple that.
SPOILER well The Village benefits from the fact that the monsters were in fact just the other characters in rubber masks. Practical effects would have been entirely accurate anyway, no VFX required. I expect that money was mostly spent on color correction and removing phone lines and such.
The original Circa had a great approach to this IMO. They chunked up news into smaller pieces of information, and gave you a way to indicate interest in receiving follow-up notifications about a given story.
I feel like ex-Buzzfeed-guy Ben Smith’s Semafor is trying riffs on that theme in a couple of ways. In their big reported pieces they seem to like to packaging together mixed forms of reporting, coupling straight-reported factual summaries with editorial “views,” prognostications, other organizations’ reporting, and forward-looking timelines.
The effect is pleasantly like the sort of dense, brief topic subscriptions you mention, in a weirdly retrospective kind of sense. The best way I can think to describe the effect is that it feels like having subscribed to the story’s notifications a year or two ago, before I knew I’d be interested in it.
They use a similar technique in their “Signals” products. I’m not sure how they’d describe those, but they seem aimed less at hard reporting and more at delivering context and background by threading together paragraph-sized summaries of mainly other institutions’ reporting.
Circa was definitely ahead of its time, and never quite replaced.
The anti twitter/reddit/facebook. And also an anthesis to something like wikinews.
The powers that be need to revisit the idea of organizing information in a way that stories get appended and built upon, instead of each new piece of information being a new post in an endless firehose.
They had an editor, Anthony DeRosa, who took the time to make sure what they were reporting was accurate before pushing publish. In an era where 'first' dominates, it was refreshing -- but maybe not popular.
There is a diff between extinction and stagnation.
Wall St wasn't bailing on Netflix shares in 2022 cuz they thought Netflix would turn into Napster. When subscriber numbers don't grow it's a signal of reaching the max number of subscribers on the planet who can afford to pay monthly for content
Netflix execs for years had been braying about how the internet has billions upon trillions of people. But if your subscriber counts start strugling to increase once it reaches 250 mil that's a sign of hitting people who don't have cash left in the pocket. After that peak is reached it doesn't matter how superior your tech stack or business strategy is to the competition.
It's sort of like AT&T. No one believes AT&T is going to shutdown and no one believes AT&T is going to find new customers. Cuz they have already captured those who can pay.
Growth investors will go look for other shares to buy.
More like an overwhelmed super power drowning in the info tsunami, confused and loosing its collective mind. With no architecture in sight to reduce the info overload just increase it.
It depends how fucked up the rest of the world gets. As long as the rest are blundering about, killing each other, energy/trade flows keep getting disrupted the US can coast. The time to start sweating is when there is peace and China, India et al start realizing they don't need the US for too much. That's when the party ends.
There's a lot of difference between not getting along well with each other and not trading .
"From 2015 to 2022, India-China bilateral trade grew by 90.14%, an average yearly growth of 12.87%. In 2022, the overall trade with China increased by 8.47% year on year to reach USD 136.26 billion, crossing the USD 100 billion mark for a second time in a row. The trade deficit came at USD 101.28 billion as India’s imports from China witnessed an increase by 118.77% to reach USD 118.77 billion, meanwhile India’s exports to China decreased by 37.59% year on year to reach USD 17.49 billion, down for last year’s net exports of USD 28.03 billion" [0]
Not really. AI has lot of kinks to work out. So hiring is happening on that front. Lot of other factors caused over hiring and correction - covid - central banks lowering and raising interest rates - govts increasing/decreasing spending - wars - china/russia disconnection etc
Finance innovation has outpaced technical and creative innovation. So most companies are dominated by financial engineering.
Any firm with offices located across the world are making cash just moving it around faster than you can make it with a product. And profitably. Taking advantage of exchange rates, interest rates, tax rates, subsidy, tariff differences etc etc is a more sophisticated process these days than anything you see in a factory.
