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Grindhouse
2007 · Film · 191 min
Directed by Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.
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Last year Eli Roth did the same thing with his Grindhouse trailer, turned it into a real movie.
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The movie Machete was made after the trailer. The trailer was sandwiched, with other fake ones, in between the two parts of the Tarantino / Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse. I remember because I saw Grindhouse in theaters and years later saw the actual trailer for the real movie Machete and did quite the double take. What a B-movie clusterfuck.
Do they include fake shows that subsequently become real, like Kujibiki Unbalance? Given that some of the fake movies from Grindhouse are on there but not the ones that were subsequently made, I guess not?
Was it inspired by fake movie trailer from Grindhouse? https://youtu.be/lttrIPDFplU
This is a general trend in media as a whole today - sequels, reboots, remakes/remasters, derivatives of other popular media are just as bad in television and video games. The only saving grace of "TV" is Netflix, Amazon and HBO who are more willing to take the risk on new IP.
The last AAA video game I purchased that wasn't based on an existing IP or derivative of a specific formula (see: Ubisoft) was Titanfall. The last movie I saw for myself (and not my daughter) that wasn't based on existing IP I can't even remember, it must have been Grindhouse (Planet Terror / Death Proof). Meanwhile, the last serialized "TV" content I've watched that wasn't a new season of an existing show or a spinoff was Transparent, before that there was Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, etc.
I would love for some fresh ideas in the available content out there, but it seems like executives are especially adverse to risk considering the budget it takes to make "current-gen" visuals in blockbusters or AAA video games - and I wonder if that is why serialized shows are where most of the "fresh" content is considering people expect lower production values out of a 20 episode season of 45 minute episodes.
Look, the rpoblem is this, hollywood isn't about art, ideas or socialism. Its all about hard cash.
The problem here is that the movies that people watch in any great number are sequels. This means that they generate cash. As alluded to above, that's all that hollywood cares about.
There are people that are prepared to take risks, like the wienstien company. However, a failure like the grindhouse (which is a terrible film) meant that they almost disappeared.
Why is that so? think about it in bandwidth terms. Studios release 5 or 6 movies every three months. Each one of those costs up to $100 million each. When a movie is released you have to pay for advertising, promotion, tedious talking head stuff. Then the movie is in theaters for 4-10 weeks. Then later on its punted to rental, and then DVD/blueray.
If a movie doesn't do well in that time, its sunk. gone along with 1/5th of the studios earnings for that quarter. most movies barely break even. Which means a studios business model has to build in a lot of loss.
A TV channel has subscribers. This means that they can take a risk. Even if a show is shit it wont hurt earnings immediately. Plus they have 3-5 blockbusters shows on a week. which means a much faster turn around. However the shit/hit ratio in TV is ironically much higher. (American TV is horrifically bad.) But because its all based on subscribers risks can be taken as one show is such a tiny fraction of the total output.
Good customer development is filming the trailer and then deciding whether to make the movie.
FWIW: Tarantino & Rodriguez's movie _Grindhouse_ included several fake movie trailers. They were so popular that _Machete_ and _Hobo_With_A_Shotgun_ were turned into real movies with good boxoffice returns; more such projects are underway.