Ask PG: What progress is being made on disrupting Hollywood?

[Peroni]

A few months back there was a post by PG calling on developers and entrepreneurs to disrupt Hollywood.[1]

It gained a massive amount of attention at the time and I'm curious as to whether anyone has heeded that call and if there is now any particular start-up or tech in the pipeline that may have a noticeable impact on that particular industry?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3491542

[wj]

I'm working on something to lower a portion of cost and difficulty on the production side. It is not going to kill Hollywood but hopefully it will help low-budget and student filmmakers.

I think killing Hollywood (breaking the stranglehold on distribution) is a long term goal. It will be a lot of smaller innovations that will enable it.

[shoham]

Check out FeedForward: http://www.feed-forward.net we're doing a lot namely giving artists incentive to communicate better with our core application which gives artists more exposure when they give feedback for others' work. We also feature a commission free market --sell your work with nothing more than a PayPal account, and we'll NEVER take a cut. We've applied for YC several times, and have never heard back, accept for their generic rejection letter, but we've been at this for years, not months, and I am a musician, so I understand just how hard it is for others like me, and I'm going for community development over riches and fame... Thanks!

[lastorset]

I think there is still a long future for non-interactive/low-interactivity media. The original RFS acknowledged this. One project that aims to enable high-quality packaging independently of Hollywood is Lib-Ray [1]. Only a small part of the answer, but useful in its own right.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2144275086/lib-ray-non-d... (I don't know how much future there is in distributing physical media, but packaging menus and other stuff that non-hackers like in a standard format is possibly interesting.)

[J3L2404]

I believe it was 'Kill Hollywood'. You might as well have Henry Ford saying 'Kill Horses'. When a viable alternative exists it will gradually replace Hollywood. Just like every other industry.

[pcote]

In order for the auto industry analogy to hold, horse breeders would have had to have been actively interfering with early automotive innovation. Did that actually happen? (honest question)