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For Sale Mar 30, 2026 at 1:36 AM

After all the "Hollywood is dead" posts, here's a simple explanation on how to really bring it back

Posted by Dapper_Cut_9225

I'm sure you guys have heard around and seen posts on here about how everyone is concerned about the decline of Hollywood, but nothing is being done to address the problem. It's gotten to the point where some movies that are set in LA are getting filmed in a different country because of how expensive it is to film in LA. Here is just my opinion on how Hollywood would really be fixed if we take action. Lmk if you agree. **1. Higher tax incentives in LA (obviously).** Pretty much self-explanatory but this would get production back in LA and jump start the industry back up. Producing movies/TV elsewhere in the country is honestly shit due to the inconsistent weather elsewhere. But now it's pretty much forced due to the tax situation in California. **2. STOP the over-saturation, it's burning the industry out.** These days, the demand of movies and TV is pretty low due to the recent shift of entertainment over to social media like TikTok and YouTube. I personally cannot wrap my head around the fact that movies/TV shows are being mass-produced right now when there is no demand for that. It's like a snow shovel company making f*** tons of snow shovels here in California when we don't have snow. Nobody is buying them, but they continue to keep mass producing them. The production of movies and TV needs to be focused on quality and NOT quantity. If we have some really good movies/TV that gets released and everyone is talking about, this would hopefully pull entertainment/attention back to this industry rather than the stupid "influencers" on TikTok. Production companies need to be more strict on what they approve to be made and released to stop all these bad/alright movies and actually release quality ones that everyone would go to the movies for. And stop releasing so many when there's no demand! Sure good movies have been released recently, but since no body talks about movies/TV like before, I haven't heard anything that's good to watch! The only thing I hear about is TikTok!! Also, we need to have people that can come up with good, new, and unique movie/TV ideas. There's been a ton of remakes and reboots recently that keep failing. We need to be creative again! **3. Not allow AI.** Again, self-explanatory. I just saw a clip of a AI movie today that honestly looked pretty real. If we let AI take over, the industry will fully disappear and jobs will be lost.
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-SneakySnake- Mar 30, 2026 +7
"Just make good movies." Because they never thought of that?
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LyleTheAdonis Mar 30, 2026 +1
Yea that take makes no sense lol The answer to “fixing Hollywood” is to limit and gate keep which moves can and cannot be made. 🤦‍♂️
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-SneakySnake- Mar 30, 2026 +2
And it's not like they're trying to make bad ones on purpose. Studios would prefer every single movie they make to be good. It means more people would see them when they come out and want to see them again and again.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026 -2
I'm talking about being original and coming up with new ideas. I don't need to see the 26th Spiderman movie...
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026 +2
> I don't need to see the 26th Spiderman movie... There were 300 original movies that came out last year in the US alone. Which did you see? How many other people saw them? Big studios make "roller coaster" rides. They are often sequels and existing IP. They aren't (cough cough) cinema. There is *tons* of cinema. Not making Spiderman isn't going to change anything but make the studios go out of business sooner and probably leave a vacuum that's filled with AI.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026
No I'm trying to say they should focus on making more new and original movies. They are making a ton of reboots and sequels recently, which is just burning the industry out. I just heard today they are making a Baywatch reboot. Like no, nobody asked for that and I've already seen it. Let's keep it new and interesting.
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-SneakySnake- Mar 30, 2026 +1
Hollywood has literally always made a ton of reboots and sequels. There's no "lately." With respect, if you're gonna write this thesis on how to fix Hollywood, you ought to know more about it than just what's happening right now.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I get that but I did do some research also and I did see somewhere that reboots have been occurring more than ever since covid. I just feel like recently it's just been about the same hero stories over and over again. Spiderman and Batman is all I see.
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-SneakySnake- Mar 30, 2026 +1
And back in the day, it was Zorro and Robin Hood. This is why you gotta look into this shit before you craft manifestos.
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026 +1
> but I did do some research So what are the numbers, the statistics? What did you research reveal?
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026 +1
> No I'm trying to say they should focus on making more new and original movies. ***How do you think they fund the originals, the awards movies?*** With the "blockbuster" movies.
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Unfair_Visual4409 Mar 30, 2026 +5
agree on the tax incentive part but studios are just chasing what makes money and apparently that's formulaic sequels and reboots since original scripts are seen as too risky.
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ExtensionParsley4205 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Hopefully Marty Supreme and Project Hail Mary making good money demonstrates that there still is an appetite for original scripts.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026 +5
Honestly, only making reboots and sequels is gonna get old really fast. I'm so sick of seeing the same movie over and over again, with worse actors each time.
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026 +2
It’s not only reboot and sequels getting made. There were more than 500 scripted movies (US only) last year and the vast majority (more than 70%) were original. The question is what do people want to see? If people are paying for regurgitation, then who wouldn’t want to do that? After all it’s the movie business, not the movie art fair.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026
Sure 500 original scripted movies were made but they are not getting released.. They should!!
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026 +1
> but they are not getting released Sure they are. On streaming. There's zero chance most of them getting wide theatrical. The studios are not in charge of that. The distributors are. The theater owners are.
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Seagoon_Memoirs Mar 30, 2026 +1
people are willing to pay when a movie gives them what they want and need qed, project hail mary, it's a happy positive movie that is empowering and social
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rAin_nul Mar 30, 2026 +1
>Higher tax incentives in LA (obviously) That's not really the issue. The movies are expensive even if they were shot in a dirt poor country, for example, Hungary is pretty popular and insanely c**** and yet, the movies are not that c**** at the end. The American talents will ask for American salaries and that's the issue. If 30% of the movie's budget goes to like 2-3 actors and a director, then the filming location won't help much. >STOP the over-saturation, it's burning the industry out That will have an opposite effect. The "demand" is actually to have a stable daily routine. If someone routinely watches an episode from whatever every single day, then they won't settle for less. But when the studio does not produce enough series to have something to watch, then they will look for something else and many content creator produces content regularly. When someone starts following, it will be harder to make them watch your new stuff. And I'm joking here. When you have no clear idea what to watch, you could spend quite some time scrolling on Netflix, for example, but if you regularly follow a streamer, then you won't even think about or check out Netflix's main page, you just start watching that stream. And this is how streaming sites would lose their subscribers. >The production of movies and TV needs to be focused on quality and NOT quantity. The award-winning Anora had a box office of 60 million, while the low quality Minecraft movie made almost a billion. People are not that interested in quality, they are interested in hyped-up, brainrot or meme related stuff. >There's been a ton of remakes and reboots recently that keep failing. We need to be creative again! That's objectively not true. Those are the stuff that actually make a lot of money. The Lilo & Stitch LA movie from last year was the 4th highest grossing movie and the How to Train Your Dragon was 8th.
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Any-College-1581 Mar 30, 2026 +1
honestly, your points hit hard. bringing the focus back to quality and making things happen in LA with some good tax incentives could really change the game. it’s wild how much the landscape has shifted, and we do need fresh ideas instead of reboots every other week.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Thank you for your response. You're like the only one that agrees with me though lol. I guess everyone else wants to keep seeing the reboots and the same movie over and over again!
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026 +1
What do tax incentives do? They create jobs. Not great movies (not bad movies, but not great movies). They help big budget movies. Unless you're Nolan, Spielberg, or... okay those guys, then tax incentives aren't incentives to make movies, they are incentives to make big movies somewhere else.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026 +1
Yes, my point on tax incentives was brining production back to Southern California, which you agreed with me on that. It will obviously not create great movies, they will simply just create jobs like you said and shift production back to Southern California.
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doc334ft3 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I feel that it's not that there are no demands at all, but rather that everyone is overwhelmed be the content, making it difficult for anything to truly break through and become popular.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I agree.
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CurtisLeow Mar 30, 2026
I don’t think it matters if movies are filmed in Hollywood. California is booming economically. They don’t need the money. Any policy designed to subsidize Hollywood is taking money from the average person and giving it to wealthy people in LA. It’s a regressive policy.
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eyetwitch_24_7 Mar 30, 2026 +2
Tax incentives mean that they give tax breaks to productions filming there. That doesn't mean the government's giving out money, it means they're taking less. This incentives production and brings more money in. It's good for the economy. It's not regressive. There's a reason other states are falling over themselves to get productions to come to them...and it's not because they're losing money on it or the money's all going to the super rich.
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CurtisLeow Mar 30, 2026 +1
It means they are cutting funding for public services to fund rich movie stars and producers. It is a regressive policy. There are better ways to spend taxpayer money. The money would be better spent on mass transit or healthcare or education. LA has horrible mass transit compared to most east coast cities. Fix that first.
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026 +2
Which schools, and how much funding did they lose, because of a tax incentive movie? There aren’t any. Lots of states and lots of countries have tax and sensitives. It’s a net positive for those places.
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longjumpingtote Mar 30, 2026
Tax incentives don’t do anything for Hollywood as people are talking about it. People are using Hollywood comprehensively, not literally mean Southern California. But I am 100% for bringing production back to Southern California. Studios don’t NOT film other places because they don’t care if they lose money on rainy days. I’m not sure I really understand that point. People who do complaining know exactly what they’re getting into. Then you want to increase tax incentives but what? You also want to reduce the production of films. Plus you were using anecdotal evidence. Consuming content, now more than ever. And you’re number three point, I think everyone can agree we would rather have real people in movies. But AI has been used for years and it will continue to be used in many ways. I don’t think people are going to buy tickets to a movie with Tilly Norwood though. It’s up to us and not spend money on that content. You might want to actually research the numbers and look into the data. It might be really interesting.
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Dapper_Cut_9225 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I really appreciate your response. I just saw my first AI movie today lol and it looked real af. I watched it with my parents and they thought it was real until the end credits showed saying "made with AI" like bro are we serious WHY are we creating movies with f****** robots. I agree with you too that I am also for bringing production back to Southern California. I feel like if most people of the industry are in the same area, it's easier to make connections and meet new people in the industry fairly easily when we would be all so close. I'm not saying we should reduce production by a ton, just to match the number of productions when the industry was at its peak. It wont necessarily mean less work, it would mean working more on each production to make sure it's at its best before releasing it. I just miss when movie theaters would be popping with everyone waiting to see that new movie. It's not like that anymore when 5 new movies release a day..
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Grunklsnort Mar 30, 2026
I'm tired of chasing tax incentives every 3-4 years grandpa!
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ManVSReddit Mar 30, 2026 -2
California has taxed itself to death- movies are no different . 
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PostPostMinimalist Mar 30, 2026 +5
It's so dead, it's the fourth largest economy in the world all by itself!
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ManVSReddit Mar 30, 2026 -3
Was… give it a few years for the impact from the large companies leaving to really see the effects . 
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PostPostMinimalist Mar 30, 2026 +4
Give what a few years? You think high taxes in California are new?
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ManVSReddit Mar 30, 2026
No but mass exodus of wealth, jobs and companies is. California is in its deathbed. 
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PostPostMinimalist Mar 30, 2026 +1
California's GDP growth has been higher than the national average the past few years. "Dead." Also we were talking about taxes, which haven't changed in more than a decade? You dropped that when you realized it didn't make sense?
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Expensive-Sentence66 Mar 30, 2026 +1
There are cheaper places to go to make movies, and the industry of making movies doesn't care about Hollywood because those skills are increasingly commodity based. Also, the population demographics don't match the GDP numbers. Seen Cali's deficit lately? Florida and Texas have a massive surplus.
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