DevilsPGD wrote:
> In message  "John W. Kennedy"
>  wrote:
> 
>> Mike McDonald wrote:
>>> Independent video is next.  JMS can kiss off the studios and
produce his 
>>> own material and sell it directly.  As Warner Wolf says,
"The future is 
>>> NOW!"
>> Yes and no. Even with a cast and crew working for free, a single
>> television episode of barely-adequate quality, shot single-camera on
>> location, costs about $30,000 to make. (I speak from experience, though
>> I imagine a three-camera, one-interior-set production would be cheaper.)
> 
> And?
> 
> Assuming there is money to be made, venture capital will eventually show
> up to make it happen.

And thereby become the new studios, and the new "suits".


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John W. Kennedy
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of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts"
  -- J. Michael Straczynski.  "Babylon 5", "Ceremonies of
Light and Dark"
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