Hollywood gerät in eine existenzielle Krise am Oscar-Wochenende
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/hollywood-s-economic-strain-can-t-be-hidden-at-the-oscars?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzU5NzE1OCwiZXhwIjoxNzc0MjAxOTU4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQlRZQ0ZLSVVQVVowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.fkfx_XkxD4fNQ_whehHCVU0lEt6syrCJUzWebvpPdjY
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*Layoffs, fewer productions and slumping ticket sales have darkened the mood in an industry that once defined American cultural power.*
*Thomas Buckley for Bloomberg News*
A group of young assistants from WME — the talent agency representing Martin Scorsese and Ben Affleck — were debating their career choices between rounds of bourbon and line dancing on a recent evening at the Desert 5 Spot bar in Hollywood.
“I got into this business because I love movies, but everyone is really worried that the movie business won’t exist anymore,” slurred one of the twentysomethings, who asked not to be identified sharing their thoughts freely.
For almost as long as it’s been around, the film industry has been pronounced dead before its time. The advent of television in the 1950s, the sale of studios to conglomerates in the 1960s, and the rise of video cassettes in the 1980s and streaming in the 2010s were all thought to be the nail in the coffin.
Now, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences prepares to hand out its highest awards to films and filmmakers on Sunday, the industry is once again awash in gloom. Morale has been battered by tens of thousands of layoffs, the exodus of production from California to lower-cost territories, the waning cultural relevance of cinema versus social media, declining attendance at theater chains and fears that artificial intelligence will displace traditional moviemaking.
[Read the full essay here.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/hollywood-s-economic-strain-can-t-be-hidden-at-the-oscars?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MzQwNTI0OSwiZXhwIjoxNzc0MDEwMDQ5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQlRZQ0ZLSVVQVVowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.nJFaexK5a0hlnyIMpYeiJeavwTnhNelmSFpa-3uZAcA)
Hollywood doesn’t have original ideas anymore. Let’s keep making the same movies over and over, because we don’t have original ideas anymore. Scream 7? Seriously? Fast and furious whatever number they’re on? These movies are tired and poorly thought out from the originals. How many remakes or sequels do we need to get the point across?
Ah, well. Hollywood did it to themselves.
opera ballet ballet BALLET!? opera *opera* ballet.
The American propaganda machine is faltering. Oh no.. anyways.
Hollywood is a vehicle for monoculture, which isn’t something we really have anymore
I don’t need to watch 3 hours of bullshit back patting, social messaging, and fake emotions to know that Sinners will win everything except for a salutary win tossed to One Battle because virtue signaling feels so good to the Hollywood elite.
This is what happens when people hire their friends and kiss ass to get to the top of the corporate ladder. Hollywood used to be about art and creating stories. Now it’s about sucking as much revenue out of every idea until people are sick and tired of it.
I get it. Also, maybe if you didn’t have to pay more for popcorn and a drink than the admission, attendance would be up a bit.
Guess what, when you get to know them, celebrities are just like your annoying co workers just better looking. We need to go back to the days of them keeping quiet and doing what their PR people say.
I haven’t watched an award show for years.
I don’t know how to feel about any of it. I love movies but the business side has been shady from the start. How many Harvey Weinsteins do we need? I don’t go to the movies anymore because I don’t want to pay a fortune to see a movie while annoying people text the entire time. I also don’t think movies will stop being made at any point and these kinds of articles come out every year.
good
fuck hollywood.
Maybe if someone came up with an original idea once and awhile instead of endless remakes and live action cartoons, people would be more interested in seeing movies. The latest class of actors are lame imitations from the past and what passes for talent is laughable. AI will put the final nail in the coffin and the sad part is no one will even notice the difference.
I can’t wait to stop hearing about this shit. People’s obsession with the Oscars and the lives of celebrities is so fucking sad.
Timothee took everything from us
Seeing movies are just so damn expensive
The Oscars are worthless