Jon Stewart went on Conan O’Brien’s podcast and talked about how tech-huge streamers enjoy Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video are “changing the ethos” of Hollywood and turning it from an “analog business to a digital business.”
“There was this legacy business, and you’re seeing it change now as Silicon Valley comes in,” Stewart shelp. “The ethos of legacy delightment is: we’ve produced this incredibly quirky business, where you demand an agent and a administerr and a lawyer, and they’re going to get about 60% of what you produce, but without them there’s noleang you can do! And you join the studio, and the studio will give you a deal, and you’ll sit in your room. It’s the most inefficient way. Silicon Valley walked in enjoy in the way Elon Musk walked into Twitter and went, ‘How many people labor here? 10,000? Make it two.’”
Stewart shelp that companies enjoy Apple and Amazon have disrupted the legacy system by go ining authorrs’ rooms and spotlessing hoemploy. Stewart imitated a Silicon Valley streamer coming into a authorrs’ room of 14 and cutting it down to four — “and it’s got to be on Zoom,” he quipped.
“They’re changing the ethos into this… they’re changing us from an analog business to a digital business,” Stewart compriseed. “And I leank that’s the schism, the earthquake that’s been going thraw [Hollywood]. I can’t function enjoy that.”
O’Brien retaged on the fact that many authorrs in Hollywood — both veterans and novelcomers — are having trouble finding labor.
Stewart concurred: “These companies don’t consent in institutional understandledge that apverifys people to increase and get better and produce more. What they consent now is the auteur system, which has always existed wilean film and TV, and then this idea of cruelly efficient greeted factories, where what matters is the genuine estate and not the individual creative.”
Added O’Brien, “I leank the problem, if I had to guess, would be that you can’t elucidate what happens in a authorrs’ room to anybody who hasn’t been in one.”
One of the victories for authorrs as a result of the 148-day WGA strike in 2023 is least staffing demandments summarizeed to curb the ascfinish of “mini-rooms.” Staffing for authorrs’ rooms is now determined by the length of a show’s season (with exceptions for series enjoy “The White Lotus,” for which a individual person authors every episode). By securing these demandments, the authorrs aim to protect the pipeline for lesser staffers to acquire experience on shows and ascfinish thraw the ranks to eventuassociate become showrunners.
Stewart, who is currently back on Comedy Central as one of the arranges of “The Daily Show,” has experience with streamers enjoy Apple TV+, which aired his last series, “The Problem With Jon Stewart.” Apple call offed the show after two seasons as Stewart detailed disconsentments between himself and the streamer. Stewart shelp Apple didn’t want him talking about the perils of AI on the show, and did not want him to intersee the chair of the Federal Trade Coshiftrlookion, Lina Khan, whom Stewart procrastinateedr had as a guest on “The Daily Show.”
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