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Visionary Fusion

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with him from his early days in Family Ties through three Back to the Futures and even the two times, he appeared in The Good Fight TV series. But his message regarding the inevitability of Parkinson’s Disease and the class/determination he has as he faces the inevitable one day at a time resonates with everyone on the planet. It’s more than a feel bad/feel good story, it’s a study of how a good filmmaker can turn a story into a great film. There are great filmmakers around the globe and regardless of the genre (adventure, comedy, action, sci-fi, horror, romcom), people want to see their films in a theater or at home on the couch. Today's motion picture industry is in an awkward transition. Studios want to be leaders in the theatrical arena and the direct-to-consumer arena while trimming everywhere for Wall Street/stockholders. The US film/show industry (often simply referred to as Hollywood) is the largest in the world – worth about $95.5B last year, employs slightly more than 45,000 production folks. But film/show production is a global industry with the Americas being the largest followed by the UK, China, Japan, France and India. Combined, the film/TV industry supports an estimated 2.4M jobs, according to the MPA (Motion Picture Association). Last year, the industry spent

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