Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, and Ellen De Generate are the most insufferable women in America today!
I have no interest in watching award shows but whilst at my mum’s house I turned on Downton Abbey and she commented that it seemed a boring program, albeit tonight’s episode indeed seemed pretty dull on the surface, so she mentioned the Oscar’s were on and I turned the channel to it. Lo and behold there’s some black guys up there and talk of Dr. King and equal rights, civil rights, whatever. I’m like “Really? what year are we in again?” All these stars creating issues, harping on the same ol same ol after all these years, just so what they do seems relevant I guess....
Hollywood's major studios can stay in business making movies that make no money because they have 100 years of back product (85 years of talking, alone) that they can sell on DVD, show on pay-tv (cable), license to broadcast tv, license for advertising, etc. BILLIONS of dollars every year from works that should have lapsed into the public domain decades ago.
Any upstart studio that hopes to enter the market does not have this luxury and must be more responsive to the ticket buying public, boycotts, etc. And that is IF you can even secure distribution to the theater chains for your truly independent film.
It's called a monopoly and it used to be prohibited but Big Media pwns the Democrat party and lobbies the GOP as well.