Practically speaking, Hollywood is dying. Giant multinational corporations have bought up the studios, and they only want scripts that conform to the book “Save the Cat”, generic scripts that offend no one, change nothing, and movies that make all their box office in the first week then are forgotten, except for DVD and Blu-Ray sales.
The last big money making enterprise in Hollywood was Canon Films, run by Golan-Globus, who produced dozens of low budget, but high margin movies, 8 of 10 of which just needed to break even, with 1 or 2 of 10 being successful, to make them very rich.
So this is what conservative actors should do. And not in Hollywood and that disaster of a state, California, but somewhere else. A new film production center, with entirely different values.
Decent and creative scripts, albeit low budget ones, with the emphasis on acting, foreign location shoots instead of f/x, live studio music, and non-union workers. Likewise, lots of direct to syndication anthology series for TV, so instead of a few actors making all the money, a lot of actors make *some* money, with a lot of work available.
Everything is family friendly, with only two subdivisions: directed at families with children; and more adult-oriented dramatic material, that is, not stuff children shouldn’t see, but stuff that children aren’t particularly interested in seeing.
A large part of what they would do could be non-fiction, like detailed biographical sketches of American heroes, “Mr. Wizard” type science shows as opposed to “Bill Nye the science fool” shows, futurism shows like the 1960s show “The 21st Century”, and geography-travel-tourism-history shows.
A lot of this was the best of TV programming in the 1950s through the 1970s. It was popular and it was intelligent. No reason that it wouldn’t still work.
“Practically speaking, Hollywood is dying.”
Movies and television have never been more profitable than right now. And other states and other countries are finally figuring out how to make good stuff — by following Hollywood’s lead. If anything, Hollywood is expanding.
“Giant multinational corporations have bought up the studios”
Nope. The successful studios grew into giant corporations, by virtue of their success. Like Disney. And Warner Bros. Non-movie, widget-making corporations who try to run studios fail miserably at it. As when GE bought NBC.
“and they only want scripts that conform to the book “Save the Cat”
There are consistent elements in every successful script that go all the way back to Shakespeare. All the way to the Greek dramatists. “Save the Cat” just codifies them for you so you can write your own. If your script DOESN’T conform to “Save the Cat,” it probably doesn’t work as a dramatic or comedic structure.
“The last big money making enterprise in Hollywood was Canon Films, run by Golan-Globus, who produced dozens of low budget, but high margin movies, 8 of 10 of which just needed to break even, with 1 or 2 of 10 being successful, to make them very rich.”
CANON FILMS?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You mean the company that suckered up front production money from international buyers and used half to make their terrible movies, while the rest went in their pockets? That was a Ponzi scheme. Please name a successful Canon movie. And don’t say “Runaway Train” just because it got an Oscar nomination. It didn’t make money. None of their films made money at the U.S. box office, which is the only metric that counts. A studio that ends in bankruptcy after only a few years is not a success.
“So this is what conservative actors should do. And not in Hollywood and that disaster of a state, California, but somewhere else. A new film production center, with entirely different values.”
The most successful movies, the ones everyone in the U.S. and around the world wants to go see, come from Hollywood. That you’re mad at California for some reason doesn’t make this sound business advice.
Kevin Sorbo had his shot as a lead actor in a big film called “Kull the Conqueror.” It failed, and so did he as a leading man in movies.
Patricia Heaton works. Kelsey Grammar works. Nobody cares that Kevin Sorbo is a conservative. What he needs to do is be a better actor.