Phillip Noyce Strategizes How to Survive the Disruption of New Hollywood: ‘We Need a Miracle’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Phillip Noyce, the ace Australian director behind “The Quiet American” “Salt and “Rabbit Proof Fence,” is no ordinary storyteller.
His genial, almost bumbling, demeanor belies a quick brain and an avid user of technology. Both were on display in Goa at the International Film Festival of India where he is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award, and where Monday he delivered a memorable masterclass.
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’s analysis of the U.S. film industry’s crisis is that production was ramped up during COVID and then scaled back; that theatrical box office is waning and causing the prices of bankable actors and pre-sales values of unmade films to decline; and that during the writers and actors’ strikes of 2023 the studios used the time to reassess their future.
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