How about instead we have a project like Kickstarter for movies? For say $100 a year, you join a movie club and get access to the movies that they make for your enjoyment.
Movie makers get a concrete source of funding, and a defined demographic to design for.
Movie lovers get the movies they love.
Of course, theatres---excepting small private showings--are cut out from this new model. Likely, everyone would turn to streaming movies.
I already purchase HBO---not because I cannot get their content elsewhere but because I want them to make more of it, and I know they take into account the tastes of their paying customers.
You never can tell with some sites, but I wonder if this is something that vodo.net will evolve into? At the moment it seems to be fairly 'generic' as far as 'investments' are concerned (I don't really know... I don't have a membership) but I do agree with you: I'd love to be able to put some cash towards a particular genre or something similar.
Movie makers get a concrete source of funding, and a defined demographic to design for.
Movie lovers get the movies they love.
Of course, theatres---excepting small private showings--are cut out from this new model. Likely, everyone would turn to streaming movies.
I already purchase HBO---not because I cannot get their content elsewhere but because I want them to make more of it, and I know they take into account the tastes of their paying customers.