Good Things In Cinema Biz 2025, Part 2
How far can we go in spotting the needles in the haystack?
In 2024, I found 54 Good Things to celebrate. Can we find that many this year? And if there was so much good last year, why did this year feel so f’n painful?
If you missed Part 1 of Good Things In The Cinema Biz 2025, you missed my initial 15, but here’s your chance to read up before it flashes by:
And yeah, some of you may be wondering why I am starting the EOY round-up when are still only 86.9% of the way through 2025. I found I couldn’t get it all done waiting until the end of November like I used to. This is the Era Of Abundance. There is just too damn much of everything. Too much happening too much of the time. How are we supposed to process it all?
Good Things In The 2025 Cinema Biz, Part 2 (#s 16-30)
The Acquisition Market may be coming back. There are enough positive factors to suspect that things might get better. That alone — the fact that we don’t know it will get worse — is a reason to smile, or at least to grin and not be so grim. Even if only four films got acquired at TIFF 2025.
Audiences dig cultural authenticity. We can just drop needing a western character as the eyes into other cultures. Rebecca Sun had a good read on this as one of the keys to KPOP DEMON HUNTERS success.
Collaboration, Compassion, Community, & Support is what it is now all about. I was talking to a friend who has a decade or more than me in this crazy industry. He was talking about how he’s never seen something like FilmStack in his 40+ years. Those 3Cs & 1S… they’ve been hard to find in the film industry. He said since the beginning of time, it seemed like everyone was in it just for themself. But not any more. You changed that. FilmStack did. Granted it helps to be on the app and using Notes to see what it is all about. But there are posts like this that do a good job too.
Crowd Investment is now a thing. If Sam Pressman, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth can do it (with help from Republic), maybe you can too. Sure, it is a hell of a lot of work and perhaps you need to be a well-known entity to play the game, but why fund a movie when you can fund a company?
