Woot acquired by Amazon, announces it with a rapping monkey video
Yes, companies can get silly when they get bought out. However, when the company is already silly all the time, they get even sillier.
Here's an overview by the NYT.
Here's an overview by the NYT.
Buying a producer role has been around for quite some time HOWEVER, just because you make a movie does NOT guarantee you can get listed on IMDb. IMDB does have {some} requirements for getting a project listed. Now, with Amazon buying them, Withoutabox (a electronic submition hub for film festivals), as well as creating Amazon Video on Demand (and they have another distribution vehicle that I am blanking on the name of at the moment), it does make it easier for the average schmuck to get listed as a producer.
My complaint comes in more under talent wing. For eaxample:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1781069/
VS.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3649451/
What do you see? One has actual credits and an additional resume (of projects that have not qualified for IMDb status, or only more recently have) the other? ONLY the paid for IMDb resume. Modeling (or, if the person taht posted this for the child was a professional, it should be listed as print work) is NOT something IMDb lists. (the exception to that is Victoria's Secret runway shows... BUT since that gets aired, that's why.)
Everyone knows that producer credits are questionable, at best (hence why years ago, they got limited to 3 for Oscar Time, and when submitting for consideration, especially if you want more than that to get a little paperweight, there has to be proof of who put in the most money, most time on set, and most time promoting... so that way there are no longer 50 people getting statues, when 47 of them really just gave price breaks on rentals/locations or some other "hook up" or just wanted to throw in $50 to say they made a Hollywood movie and get blown by a starlet that thinks it will help with his/her career)... it's the cast and crew (as usual) that gets screwed in this deal.
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