Believe me, I miss good movies, too. But those smaller movies simply don’t make enough money to interest them. And they’re harder to sell overseas, where more and more of the profit comes from. And while you speak of memorable movies, they speak of licensing deals, theme park attractions and franchise possibilities. Unfortunately, this is where the drive for profit and return on investment has gotten us. And everyone in Hollywood knows it and hates it. I know people in the business and they’d far rather work on an interesting drama than another Transformers movie, but the bean counters and MBAs reign supreme.
Just saying.
If American movies weren’t all leftist in view, the studios would get a whole lot more profits from American viewers.
But there must still be investors around who are willing to risk it all for the love of the art form alone. Otherwise we would have never been able to enjoy film gems like your screenname-sake.
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