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Phillip Noyce Strategizes How to Survive the Disruption of New Hollywood: ‘We Need a Miracle’
A Phillip Noyce masterclass at the International Film Festival of India was a lesson in technology, restlessness and story-telling.
His method of explaining how to succeed (“survive” would be a better term, he says) in the new Hollywood, passes through a description of the dire state of film pre-sales through to on-stage trust games and extracts from an unsuccessful pilot. Noyce explained that he is in the habit of using such group bonding tactics ahead of the production of all his pictures, that they can last for up to four hours, and that participants have ranged from top stars such as Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie through to heads of department. While fretting about the cost of production, the changes to be wrought by AI, and further tectonic shifts in the Hollywood studio system, Noyce’s underlying messages seemed to be that filmmaking will become cheaper and more accessible and that storytelling (and showmanship) will continue to be crucial.
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