It's easy to point fingers and say 'shoulda done this, shoulda done that'. Then if you did it without doing due diligence to find other money making alternatives, you get fired by the board of directors which in turn is getting squeezed by the shareholders. If you have been selling things millions of items for $15 a pop, and then someone says, hey forget that just rent them for $5 a pop. Combine that with the studios (conglomerations beholden to shareholders) desire to find a way to replace the physical media sales that were evaporating with digital sales, and it all makes a ton of sense. I do think the landscape is so different today that digital distro of one's own content would be great, but unfortunately they can't. Every company would have it's own proprietary technology, third parties would not have innovated VFX and animation and a thousand other things at the same pace, so we'd probably have less advanced entertainment. We'd be so mired in the studio system that there wouldn't be co-productions. Despite the WB logo on that film, it was produced and financed by another company, WB was in for part of the budget and the marketing. Movies like Mad Max: Fury Road would not have happened.
There would be no mini-majors like Lionsgate or Europa Corp or the Weinsteins. If it wasn't for that ruling (in the 40s), we would have never gotten Scorsese or Aranofsky or Nolan. Not to mention an extremely fragmented and confusing landscape for film goers (although I think they were probably blissfully ignorant to that back then). Thereby making only the top handful of rich studios capable of selling tickets to an audience. Every Studio owned it's own theaters across the country. Essentially controlling every step along the way and making competition next to impossible. This goes WAY back to the days when Paramount was sued by the United States Federal government for making the films, distributing the films, and exhibiting the films. Studios are not allowed control distribution directly to the customers. Also, some are repeats because that's how they are grouped on their channel.ĭo you honestly think NO ONE thought of doing that? There is a reason for the landscape looking the way it does and it's not because between the thousands of execs in the film/tv industry not a single one of them is intelligent.ĭue to anti-trust regulations they can't. Hope the formatting looks alright - I'm on mobile.
What I mean is that the classics list contains ~30 of the above movies and the only one not already listed is The Space Children.)Įdit: Here's a list of all the movies they uploaded. (Edit: To clarify, not all movies listed above are in the classics list. Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New YorkĪll movies previously listed with the exception of:
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