there Was a time in which film and television were two business highly differentiated, but the emergence of platforms like Netflix and the lack of opportunities in the movie industry have led to a migration of performers to the small screen.
“television is The medium most exciting right now,” explained the actor and the prophet of the exodus Kiefer Sutherland at the MIPCOM in Cannes, the world’s fair of audiovisual content which is being held this week and presents its new series, “Designated Survivor”.
For the british -born in London but his family moved to California a few months later-, which opened the way to the guild in 2001 to accept the role of Jack Bauer in the “24″ series, the migration of interpreters is due to the few opportunities that Hollywood offers.
“When I started to work in the united States, there were five studies that made about fifty films each year; now there are three, that make about fifteen per year and to act on any of them, there are many chances that you have to wear tights and layer,” he said.
Thus, the polarization of the industry of celluloid, divided into “blockbusters” (big-budget films), and films of low cost, has generated a flow of talent to the television, not only for interpreters, but also of writers and directors such as David Fincher, Paolo Sorrentino and even Woody Allen.
“they don’t make films like before. And that fiction, that creativity has been absorbed by the television,” said Sutherland.
The has absorbed and has expanded. According to the director of fiction international FremantleMedia, Sarah Doole, “the film talent have realized that tv gives them a better canvas to tell their stories.”
“There are many stories that simply can’t be told in 90 or 100 minutes, and need eight or ten chapters to be” developed”, explained Doole to the publication Preview the MIPCOM edits before its conclusion.
the passions which lifts the television between the guild cinema in addition to in addition to stands between the audience.
The improvement of the experience of the viewer is key in the transformation of the audiovisual landscape and the standardization of the high definition and the sound quality has made it possible to take the cinema to the living room where, in addition, if the movie is not like, you can always change the channel.
add To this the multiplication of the offer, thanks to the platforms of subscription video streaming like Netflix.
The u.s. company, which began by sending DVDS by mail, was not slow in exploiting the vein of the growing demand to brand itself a series, “House of Cards”, that has almost made you forget that Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, were once movie stars.
Adapt to the new context, many companies from film production and distribution have jumped on the bandwagon and have created divisions of television in its flow chart, as the French studies Studiocanal Wild Bunch.
This synergy influences the way of developing the projects; now it is possible to wait to decide if a story is going to make a series or a movie, since of all forms the producer is chosen is going to be the same.
all in all, the rise of the new television has generated in a short time a competitiveness to unprecedented levels.
“With a 400 or 500 series new in the market every year, it is more difficult than ever to highlight. In order that producers and distributors need the best actors for their projects,” he said to Preview the director of content of the group A+E Networks, Joel Denton.
Precisely in Cannes, a city accustomed to unroll their red carpet for the stars of the film in may, he received these days in addition to Sutherland, Freida Pinto, who introduced “Guerrilla” and Dennis Quaid, who arrived with “Fortitude”.
they were joined, immortalized in the posters of the series presented in this issue, actors such as Gérard Depardieu, Diane Kruger, Tom Hardy, or Kirsten Dunst, in addition to Dustin Hoffman turned in Giovanni de ‘ Medici, and Jude Law in the supreme pontiff.
“Already it is not enough to make good fiction, it has to be fantastic”, he remarked Denton.
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