The recession officially ended more than two years ago, but for scores of displaced studio executives, character actors, directors and below-the-line workers, the suffering continues.
As the country battles entrenched unemployment, which remains at an alarming 9 percent, TheWrap is taking a hard look at how this problem has impacted the entertainment industry.
“It’s the worst it’s ever been,” Howard Suber, a professor of film who offers a popular class on breaking into the business at UCLA, told TheWrap. “There’s an oversupply of creative people … The market is getting smaller and smaller, the films are getting bigger and bigger, but the number of films released are getting smaller.”
