Comments on: Advice for techies who want to star in Hollywood

Entertainment industry insiders say technologists looking to do business in Hollywood should hire a good lawyer or agent to help guide them.

[dascha1]

Simply amazing at how they start to talk when foreclosures are through the roof. The lure of a desperate society is that they'll do anything to get a deal going to fan it in the news. Hollywood is a place of laggards in technology. Artists rule the area, and lawyers are there to scoop up the rest. So, engineers listen-up. You are respected but will come last in the food chain when it comes to credit, and fortune in any-pictures. Bear it in mind... good luck with your phone calls and lunches.

[Penguinisto]

Foreclosures were a result of massive speculation and artificial price inflation. California as a whole is notorious for mismanagement of finances IMHO, from the state government all the way down to the typical house-flipper. From an engineer standpoint, Hollywood is a lost cause anyway for an engineer... ask any one (of any discipline) who has had to sit through a typical movie stuffed to the rafters with bald and blatant technical errors. Most of us view these attempts with not much more than derision. :)

No worries, though - I figure that eventually, Hollywood will leave its little shell and come to the engineers, not the other way 'round.

[adguy101]

Ugh. does anyone read these articles other then engineers. It all about the code. World peace...Solution, Code. Global Warming....Solution, Code. Let's not elect a politician. Let's convince Bill Gates to run for President so we can have all the problems of the world solved by an engineer. Wait...Microsoft has more engineers than anyone and they are totally screwed up. There goes that theory.

[benjaminstraight]

The main part is 'find a good lawyer'.