Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time

Re:Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union f... by ant6n on Monday June 05, 2023 @02:49PM (#36201168)

Does this explain why Hollywood writing feels so factory-produced these days? The writers guild has turned script writing into a collective, dispassionate activity?

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Re:Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union f... by dsr_ on Monday June 05, 2023 @07:59PM (#36206146)

No, it's a product of the economics of the system.

In 2022, 449 "major" movies were released. Total gross: $7.4 billion.

The top ten movies took 3.8 billion of that. Numbers 11 through 20 took another 1.2 billion.

You will probably have heard of most of the top 100. No movie ranked better than 161 took in a million dollars. The bottom 80, all together, took in about a million.

Nobody wants to pay for any of the movies not in the top 100. How do they back a winner?

In terms of story: sequels/prequels, licensed content and shared universes. All of the top ten fit into 2 or 3 of those three categories. 26 of the top 50. (If you want something original and available, horror is your best bet. Of the top 20 horror movies in 2022, only 5 were sequels/prequels, licensed or shared.)

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Re:Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union f... by 8note on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:28PM (#36206892)

One potential explanation is that writers have become commodified, and can nolonger go see and take part in other parts of the industry

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