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Hollywood ending

2014-02-17 01:46:22.108272+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

io9: Learn how Hollywood screwed over the VFX industry in Life After Pi is a look at the Hollywood Ending documentary.

Short answer: Movies play on glitz and glamour to get people to work for less than they'd do the work for otherwise.

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#Comment Re: made: 2014-02-17 14:17:28.631613+00 by: ebradway

When I worked at Cyberflix in Knoxville, we did a number of edutainment titles under contract for Disney. The only reason Cyberflix managed to actually make money on those contracts was the VP was a contract lawyer. Disney turned "feature creep" into a "bleed the contractor to death" game.