You've grown up in the film industry. What do you see is the future of
filmmaking and film distribution the next 5, 10, 20 years? -I think it's gonna be
like choose your own story stuff. You know... because I
remember those choose your own story books when I was younger and I think
it's definitely going to be like that, especially with... I forget what it's called
but that thing that you wear and you can see completely around you -
Oculus Rift! There you go. With the Oculus Rift I think they're gonna make movies
where you are like the first person. Completely immersive experiences where
you are the main character of the film and you're experiencing it and you're
going through this world that is shot entirely in first person, you know
Steadicam stuff and we have different options that you're able to do but we
shoot it with Steadicam the entire way that you possibly can, or like with a
helmet cam. I think that's definitely maybe a way that things might go.
I think another way things might go is, you know, video games are becoming much
more movie-like so I think you know almost having video games become semi
live action. We saw them try to do it in the early nineties with stuff like
Mortal Kombat where they had like live action characters put in a cartoon world
but I think that might be as well as the fact that I
think we're going to see an influx of movies that are just genres
we haven't seen before. Because if you look at recently we had a
ton of, we had like mumblecore movies pop up, before that we had these slice of life films
that were popping up. We had you know an influx of movies that were like haul
backs to previous movies from like the eighties and seventies and those became
really popular because of Grindhouse but I think we're really gonna see
stuff that is just interesting stories that people haven't seen before
and I think it's important to create immersive worlds that people can get
lost in. So I think we'll see something similar that very soon. -And distribution?
I think distribution is going all-digital. I think it's the only way
that it can survive. I think that DVDs are becoming extinct and this is coming
from an avid DVD collector. Over there there's a trunk full of maybe five, six
thousand DVDs that I've collected over the years but I even stopped buying DVDs.
I started just watching them on Netflix. Because when I'm paying for Netflix and
it's up there and I'm watching it, it's kinda hard to also, if I have watched it once or
twice on Netflix, I go, well is this a Netflix movie or is this a movie
I wanna own? When I used to just go I'm gonna buy it and watch it and then that
way after I own it, I can choose whether I want to watch it again or not but I at
least have it and I would be like, yay, I get to own this movie and like and
that was part of the joy of it. It was like, is it good, is it bad? I would go to
the Blockbuster and buy you know five movies from the five for 20 bin.
And I'd do that all the time and some would be good, some would be bad but now
with Netflix you just watch it on there. Even though I spend more time on Netflix
scrolling through looking for something to watch than I do actually watching
movies. -Do you think theaters will be a thing of the past or it'll become this really special
event where you have to pay all this money and there's dinner? -I think
theaters have the possibility of being both. I go to a theater called iPic
which is in Pasadena. Gold Cinemas, and they have dinner and a movie. You sit there,
you eat dinner, you have waiters that come in,
luxurious couches and it's really nice. I also go to the Arclight a lot. I
love the ArcLight. I think that's like a tier slightly lower but it's much higher than
going to you know your standard Pacific theaters or whatever but then
also I love going with friends to like the second run theaters. We go on
Tuesdays, it's dollar 50 Tuesday over at this movie theater where you can see any
movie for a dollar fifty and it's movies that just left the theaters, so the
movies that I didn't pay to go see for like 15 bucks I'll for a dollar fifty
with some friends and we'll like three of them back to back because it's like you know
$4.50. And I think the movie theaters will always be a thing, I just
think that the studios are gonna have to scale back on the amount of movies
they're putting out because I think that viewers have been overwhelmed with
choices because now when you go out to see a movie on the weekends you have like six movies
that came out that weekend. Which are you going to see? Which one's the one to do?
And if you didn't see one of the ones from last weekend, well maybe you want to see
that because the ones from this weekend are sold out but you didn't see ones
from two weekends ago? There's too many movies coming out right now in theaters
and I think what we need to do, what the studios need to do, is scale back the
amount of movies coming out
per week or per month because I think that's why they're struggling to do well
because people want to go to the movies. Tickets are still
selling, they just want to go to the movies not as often so they're not going
to want to spend every week fifteen, twenty dollars to see the new big movie.
They're going to say, well do I want to see
you know this Marvel movie bla bla bla or do I want to see this other Marvel movie
blah blah blah blah? Well, I want to see this one. They make their choices and so
if you give them less choices I think you'll see ticket sales go up.