Send articles throughout the next week to ploughmanplods [at] gmail, post articles from the past week below for discussion, and Have a Happy Friday! Plenty of producers also have a bad impression of the local union workers and prefer to shoot elsewhere. Ultimately Philadelphia’s film labor efforts involve a tantalizing series of knowledge gaps, what-ifs, frustrations, and plans that never came to fruition. On streaming, you don’t have to worry about movie theater showtimes or bathroom breaks—that’s what the pause button is for. Executives are still incentivized to make the best possible movie, but the conversation is a little different if a filmmaker feels strongly that they need those extra five (or 30) minutes.

Source: Forbes July 21, 2023 18:02 UTC