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David Gilmour at the Hollywood Bowl. 2nd place would be Van Halen at the Bowl as it turned out to be their last ever show.

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Should drivers be allowed to fight after a race without NASCAR repercussions?

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Allowed to? Hell, they should be REQUIRED to.

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AI movies and tv won't be as good

At first

I feel like this should always be tagged with "at first"

the technology increases exponentially. Think about where it was just 5 years ago. . .now what happens when you give them 10 more years

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Agreed. There is also an aspect that most never seem to understand. Future generations will be raised on more and more AI content. I am old AF and I have watched tastes change over the years. I remember when the Star Wars prequel trilogy came out and they released the character photos. I thought "what is this garbage"? It looked like someone with a crappy digital camera took pictures in the back room of a grocery store. Gone was the depth of field, the better lighting, the drama of similar character photos from the OT. Look at the posters for the PT, IMO, they pale in comparison to the OT. Yet, that is what people born in the early 90s were "told" Star Wars should look like. I can make the same case on digital movie cameras vs film as well. I still prefer the grain and depth of field and lighting of movies made from about 82-95, before digital took over.

So AI doesnt have necessarily have to get as good as "human created" content, future generations will be raised on what most of us may find as inferior. But that's all they will know. In addition, I predict at some point AI will be DESIRED over human creations by future generations. Every generation has to reject the previous status quo in some way and claim their "own" art. I think at some point, art created by humans will be seen as "old-fashioned". Sure, some will still be around, but it will be niche.

And this doesn't even begin to address the economic factors that will lead current studios to move in that direction and for younger people to use these tools because they can't afford a Red camera or whatever the latest is.

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They filmed all three movies at the same time. It's not like they did one and took 3-4 yrs to do the next.

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Irrelevant. You sign a 3 movie contract knowing that you will shoot all three before the first comes out. Said contract is for lower pay than usual. You STILL have a section where you will share in profits if ANY of the movies hits the mother-lode. This is done before a single frame of the first film is shot.

Me saying you "fire your agent after the first is a hit" can still happen after all the films are shot. Clearly your agent knows nothing and as soon as you see you will be missing out on millions for all three films, you should choose to never work with them again. Hence...fired.

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Pre-Covid?
You mean 7 years ago.

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The video says 6 years old. I didnt do research to find the exact date of the post so I just rounded.

The fact remains, this is OLD news.

1992 Mazda MX-3. At 110 is started to feel light so I backed off.

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I think Sean Astin was around $250k. Wood got $250k for the first one but big bump the latter two. Liv Tyler got like $2M for the first one I think.

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Given the low upfront fees (if accurate) and if this is all they were paid, all of these people should have fired their agents the second the first one was a success.

If one does a lower budget, risky film, it is common practice to negotiate points or back end IF the film takes off. If an actor, director, composer, cinematographer etc doesn't at least TRY to negotiate that on something like this, they are a fool. And if they don't try to circumvent what happened to Dave Prowse via "Hollywood Accounting", they fools.

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