Still, says David Hancock, senior cinema analyst for IHS, a franchise slowdown is nowhere in sight: "The studios are looking to achieve more financial control over what they do.
There's even a funny sight from the studio itself.
Mr. Sear maintained all the equipment and was a regular sight at the studio until March, when he fell on his way home from work.
"I often think of the vacant Smith-Cairns Ford building as a possible sight for artist studios, classrooms and a gallery," said Mr. Abele.
"There's a desire on the part of clients to make decisions that are appropriate to our times," Mr. Stark said on a warm afternoon last week at his drab Carroll Gardens studio, within sight of the onramp to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.
Although the need to earn a living required him to network for commissions and keep his output high, he gradually dropped out of sight, withdrawing into a studio that he named "Hut for Sleeping Alone and Waking to Sing".
Recorded at Hansa Studios within sight of the Berlin Wall, the record celebrates both doomed, stolen moments of individual freedom, with its images of producer Tony Visconti and his girlfriend kissing by the wall, and the visions of the uncontrollable imagination.
After the Saturday morning class, sweaty students streamed out of the studio, an intimidating sight for the next class waiting for the room to be mopped dry.
With no end in sight to the writers' strike, studio specialty divisions and a slew of relatively new distribution companies will be looking for movies to fill their threatened schedules for later this year and 2009.
The MCG Youth & Arts design studio is a sight to behold: Lightweight sculptures hang from 20-foot ceilings, paintings and drawings adorn the walls, the metallic arms of silk-screening equipment gleam.
As we leave the studios, we catch sight of him for the first time, a leviathan of a man, 6'3" and in splendid shape.
