The right answer that they won’t admit to is to cut studio heads salaries and bonuses. They are paid way too well for not doing the work. You can’t cut production costs, or talent, or post, or marketing. These costs are essential.

Then they need to trim the fat in other areas, for example, cut out previews in theaters. Market online where people seek out the previews. Profit share with talent instead of exuberant salaries. Give the production a stake in the outcome of the film. Make a centralized website for marketing, collectibles, other forms of media, etc.

They need to take more risks and change the processes they’ve been doing for the last century. They need to evolve. That’s my opinion anyway.

Same. I grew up loving comic books, still do, and I even enjoyed movies like Superman and Batman and hollywoods interpretation of the classics, with the tongue in cheek corniness. Then they started taking themselves seriously with endless series of bullshit to edge the fans. I’m happy that it looks like the trend is dying, but it seems like they’re having a hard time letting go. For the love of god, just go by the comics! They’re amazing! Give your money to the artist and creators, not some studio…. I’ll jump off of the soap box now.

Maus by Art Spiegelman. Gonzo plays the son and Kermit the dad of course. The others can fill in for the rest.

I’m reading Roadside Picnic, a 1972 Soviet sci-fi novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky So far it’s awesome!

And while I workout I’m listening to The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman. It’s ok, I lived through it so it’s like brushing up on the decade.

This reminds me of the book The Little Prince. There was also a cartoon about a child who would catch these asteroids with a butterfly net of sorts, maybe based on the book, that lives in the back of my brain that pokes its head out every blue moon. Pun intended.

The constant advances in science and technology will never cease to amaze me. I can’t wait to see average, everyday implementation of these findings.