Babs Do Productions @BabsDoProd

A lot of conversation is going on about "Backrooms" and "Obsession" and how it relates to Youtube creators and the need for building up our own audiences to succeed. All of this is wrong! Every bit of this argument is its own gatekeeping scheme. Try to build up a following online, you'll see, it is the most limiting and artificial barometer of success that anyone could have ever come up with! Even celebrities and whole media networks can't meet the numbers being expected to determine "success". Look at some modern Youtube metrics, someone with a million subscribers can barely get consistent views and sometimes for not more than a few thousand of those people. This argument essentially cuts out a whole entire generation of fantastic artists that should be creating right now because they have mostly been locked out of the industry and only now is the industry coming up with the excuse of "having a built-in audience" (through Youtube and social media). Just follow the logic, young Gen Z artists are supposed to run themselves into the ground coming up with Youtube content for years that they finance themselves which will then get soaked up by AI training and it all risks having ad agencies and Hollywood taking their unique original ideas if they go viral and all in order to meet some magic number of followers and subscribers in order to have a chance of being hired by Hollywood to direct a movie? See? It doesn't make sense. The main issue with Hollywood is that it is still a tightly closed industry operating a very outdated system and there has been no definitive strategy or creative leadership to give everybody direction on how to move forward. Hollywood has chased trends and that may have worked before but the problem there is that they can lose track, just like how streaming business has hit a profitability wall because they failed to realize the level of demand for consistent production and quality with streaming projects that puts them in a bind of higher than expected costs with smaller returns, a literal "snake eating its own tail" situation. Some networks could possibly be shut down in the coming years, if not months, and all because Hollywood was chasing after Netflix without realizing that all of Hollywood cannot operate like a streaming network. Even worse, they quite literally are now realizing that letting go of theaters and physical media was a big business mistake that they now have to backtrack on but all indications show that Netflix is now making a move for theatrical and possibly even physical media, completely turning the chase around back on them. So, now in the face of studio mergers, closures, reduction in production business, IP decline, what do they tell the independent filmmakers and up and coming artists? They need to meet some magic subscriber numbers on Youtube and Instagram to somehow "be professional", "look good for the studio", "secure distribution", or "to get the movie/show financed". PSA: No legitimate bank, investment fund, or group is ever going to ask for social media follower counts of an artist to qualify for a loan. Our vision of "Hollywood 2.0" would solve all of this by opening up the industry to everyone and giving everyone a chance to succeed in their own way. It isn't complicated, the rules, forms, and "standards" that Hollywood follows and even the amount of work the whole process takes can be changed and even eliminated to allow for more widespread opportunities for artists that would be just as profitable and, if treated right, would be even more profitable than what the current system can do. This would be fueled by our Universal Film Tax Credit Bills at the State and Federal levels which enables a streamlined and multi-faceted independent financing process combined with many other innovations to provide artists solutions to create and prosper beyond California and Hollywood if they so choose. At the same time, we can help the current Hollywood industry with our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill for California as a major first step to revitalizing California entertainment business. Overall, it's time to change strategies and to break down the gates in Hollywood. Forget subscriber numbers and follower counts, forget the gimmicks, forget the trends, its time to make a clear unobstructed path for artists to create and to help them through the process. Not everything will be a hit, nothing guarantees that, but there's no longer any reason to push away artists, hoard ideas and finished scripts, or to keep industry operations and distribution in the shadows, it's time to streamline all processes and, most importantly, create!

For those that didn’t see it, we had some new exciting updates on the Babs Do Studios blog! We talk about the updates to our Universal Film Tax Credit Bills, our progress, some industry updates, and our hopes for a “classified” project! babsdostudios.com/updates-june-1…

@chibidoki At that size I don’t know if Chibi has an advantage or disadvantage in the Backrooms lol!

We just updated our Universal Federal Film Tax Credit Bill with some very important updates to advance and grow the Entertainment Industry across the United States of America! Let's work together to revitalize U.S. Entertainment for all!

Babs Do Productions @BabsDoProd

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@DiscussingFilm That would be a great get! If we could get investors to work with us to buy @IMAX there are some Day 1 things we'd like to do. Right now we're busy with working on finding solutions to start Babs Do Studios to increase US Film production so hopefully IMAX finds a good buyer.

@forallcurious We all just saw "Project Hail Mary", radiation, oxygen, food, water, and even entertainment are massive problems to solve with long-term space travel! Heck, our digital storage is still susceptible to vibrations and magnetic damage. How will systems function past even year 10?

Got some Babs Do updates on the way, lots going on, but we need to hear back from a few different people for confirmation and they're waiting on some other people to get back to them. All part of the process!

@Variety This is why we sought to create new systems to enable new commonsense methods for independent film financing in our Universal Federal Film Tax Credit Bill. babsdostudios.com/universal-fede…

Have to say, “Good Omens 3” was a nice conclusion to the series but — *Spoilers* I don’t like the ending. It needed to do something else because for all the interesting dialogue and big questions, it just seemed to be forced into the typical non-religious atheist ending. It was especially troubling when even the main characters, who never got answers to anything to understand the meaning behind it all for themselves, would make a choice where there is no way for anyone to get any answers and that life and everything would be completely empty and meaningless which, once again, went against everything else said and shown in the series. The ending as it is makes it so one person’s misguided perspective is put onto everyone else at the expense of everyone but themselves and, in the case of the show, it’s of angels deciding for humanity instead of what their Part 1 & 2 selves would have done which would be that they ask one or more humans what they want or, clearly for this entry, Jesus after experiencing being on Earth again to wrap up the Second Coming storyline. More than that, the series typically pokes fun at religion with witty satire but this time it felt almost insulting and uncomfortable when you take a step back. I know it’s weird to say but it’s as if the first two were smart and this third entry was the dumbed down “Woke” one. Granted the whole series had dabbles of Wokeness but this third one was the most in-your-face about it. Despite the clear need for this story to be told over a limited series or at least a longer movie, it told a good story that covered a lot of “Good Omens” fun but the ending was the biggest letdown as it clearly betrayed the narrative. Overall, I would revisit “Good Omens” again but I can see watching Part 1 & 2 more often than Part 3 just because of the downer ending despite being good in many respects. If there is ever a remake or follow up at some point, it needs to undo and clean up the ending of Part 3.

If you’re looking for companies to invest in, @ryancohen, you should invest in our Babs Do Studios Infrastructure Plan to build “Hollywood 2.0” nationwide to revitalize and revolutionize US Entertainment! Babs Do Studios would be a great partner for @Gamestop as it can be an ideal physical media distributor for all the movies, games, and exclusive merchandise made with our studios! We have options to be built well within 2026 and get production going right away for 2027 and beyond. If interested, let’s discuss by our contact email at: [email protected]

@reviewjournal It would benefit NV greatly for @LVCVA to invest in our Babs Do Studios film studio development to bring in new industry & business in 2026 with direct boosts to work travel and tourism. It would also coincide with our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill for Nevada campaign for 2027!

@ThatChrisGore @spencerpratt Securing the right leadership and making massive change right away is the only solution at this point. Our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill for California can help accelerate a Hollywood comeback as well: babsdostudios.com/hollywood-our-…

@reviewjournal Whole houses with 1,500+ sq ft available for around $400,000 in Henderson, asking nearly the same price for a 380 sq ft tiny home is a horrible downgrade.

@Variety They actually should also be pushing for our Universal Film Tax Credit Bill for California to help fix the rest of the program!: babsdostudios.com/hollywood-our-…

If @netflix is looking to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, why not invest in Babs Do Studios and build new? We have a lot of opportunities right now to do something big with “Hollywood 2.0”, especially with a new option that opened up in the past few days, let’s discuss!

The Hollywood Reporter @THR

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“This lot is completely dead, whole buildings are completely empty,” a source who is a current tenant at Radford Studio Center tells THR hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

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Having talks, proposals sent, close to picture lock, staying busy!

@SonyProUSA 8K 1" Sony Camcorders with IR Night Vision, 8K RX100/RX10/RX0 travel and action cameras, and more 8K 2/3" Broadcast options, please! We asked at the show as well, 8K would be a gamechanger for these cameras as even current Sony 1" 4K sensors blur the line between S35/FF!

@JustineBateman I'm sorry but didn't Section 181 expire?

Had a great time seeing "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Tears of the Azure Sea", although I felt like the previous movie was better overall. *****Slight Spoiler***** I didn't get the villain! There seemed to be setup where he could shut off magic? But then they just beat him and the day is saved, no explanation. Eh, not great! Still, a fun movie!

Went to see “The Devil Wears Prada 2” last night and all of the early criticism about the look of the film from the early trailer proved true. The black levels were raised up too high and the mids and highs were muted down. The lighting was also minimal with so many scenes not having fill lighting, rim lights, or hair lights anywhere, it’s as if they used the practical lights and nothing else! There was one scene where Anne Hathaway effectively becomes a black void because there isn’t any detail lighting on her at all to show her outfit or even a hint of detail and shine in her hair. The way the film was graded for artificial low contrast really does look like they were hiding the lack of lighting throughout, filmed wrong, graded wrong, incompetence all around! Anyone pushing HDR and claiming everyone needs “calibrated setups” is in the wrong, this entire HDR practice is ruining the look of modern films and we need to get back to filming as close to finished looks on set as possible, no more LOG, no more LUTs, either we integrate a new way of viewing HDR organically on set or we design cameras to capture multiple instant streams to embed full color and exposure ranges like real HDR is supposed to be. Anything else is a trick that is failing more often than succeeding and is proving to be nothing more than a TV setting gimmick and marketing ploy.