The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want. “Sinners is a threat to a business model built only on regurgitation, on endless return trips to Jurassic World, on more Toy Stories and feature-length toy commercials.”
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The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want. “Sinners is a threat to a business model built only on regurgitation, on endless return trips to Jurassic World, on more Toy Stories and feature-length toy commercials.”
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“An artist having full control and ownership of their work? For a studio exec, that’s a thought much scarier than any creature of the night.”
Does someone feeding prompts into a AI chat box count as an “artist”? Or a studio exec’s wet dream? We may soon find out.
The human condition craves newness and novelty. Regurgitating nostalgia is getting tired.
Obligatory Black Media Analysis, SLYT as the metafilters would say... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffukF1MvLGk aka single link FD Signifier
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