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Part 2. Because it makes no sense that the VFX industry is collapsing when these movies make billions. Here's how VFX contracts actually work. A studio sends out a description of what they need. It might say something as vague as "an alien spaceship appears." VFX houses then bid against each other to win the work. The lowest bid usually wins. One artist told io9 it's "a race to the bottom" where studios "undercut each other so much that by the time they finally get that contract, they've bid so low they're lucky to break even." Profit margins at VFX studios sit in the single digits. Then the director changes their mind. New shots get added. Old shots get scrapped and rebuilt. But the contract price stays the same. VFX houses eat the cost of revisions because if they push back too hard, they won't get hired for the next project. There are only about six major studios buying VFX work. Lose one client, and you could lose a third of your revenue overnight. Rhythm and Hues' three largest clients accounted for 97% of its total revenue. That's Rhythm and Hues, the studio that filed for bankruptcy in February 2013, two weeks before winning the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for Life of Pi. The VFX supervisor's acceptance speech got cut off by the Jaws theme 44 seconds in, right as he started talking about the studio going under. Life of Pi made $608 million on a $120 million budget. The studio that made the tiger look real got nothing. Fast forward 12 years. MPC, owned by Technicolor, gets shortlisted for a VFX Oscar for its work on Mufasa: The Lion King. weeks later, Technicolor collapses. 4,500 jobs gone. same pattern. The studios that make the magic happen can win the industry's highest award and still go bankrupt because the business model treats their work as a commodity to be bid down to the floor. Between 2003 and 2013, 21 VFX companies closed or filed for bankruptcy. Every other person on a film set, camera operators, hair and makeup, and set designers, has had union protection for decades. VFX artists didn't get to vote on unionization until 2023. They were the last major film craft without a seat at the table. The people who make movies look like movies had zero leverage to push back on any of this.

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

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First look at ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’. In theaters on July 31.

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Jesse Ventura on Trump: “Who is that? The draft dodging coward? I don’t call him by name. He’s the draft dodging coward who when it was his time to serve his country he did what all rich white boys did. I wasn’t a rich white boy. We had to go. He’s gonna tell me what courage is?”

Brendan Fraser tells us that winning an Oscar doesn’t guarantee better acting roles. “The fallacy is you have the pick of the litter. It’s not true, actually, because it depends on what’s being made... the good news is that good work is good work. No one sets out to make a dud.”

Palestinians are not a headline. They are families, doctors, children, and elders trying to survive a man-made catastrophe. Silence is complicity. #FreePalestine

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When Coco Jones and Chico Bean were rapping to Busta Rhymes’ verse in Look At Me Now.