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Hehe. I'd set it up somewhere FAR removed from Hollywood, in a right-to-work state, for openers, maybe Florida. Actors, directors, screenwriters and the like would all be employees on salary plus a cut of the take based on past performance as draws. None of that gadzillion-dollar-per picture nonsense, renegotiated each time. I'd hire actors and directors out of film school if I had to to avoid it.

There'd be no catered meals or lavish personal trailers or facilities onset, either. No "entourages" for the principles on my payroll. Reduce the overhead, and the cost of the film is reduced and can be spent on script and production.

I'd make movies that had the unmistakable element of COOL. I wouldn't allow unecessary elements, like a romance or a cute kid, to interfere with a good story. If I'm doing a war movie, it's gonna have square-jawed tough guys kicking the enemie's a$$, with no apologies, and afterwards having a beer and a smoke under a Flag. No nonsense would be the motto. I would fire any director who asked what the "message" was going to be...it's to entertain the audience, always. Leave your personal "messages" at home.

If I do a horror movie, it's gonna be two things...scary and brutal. Forget the young, silicone-enhanced actresses cracking jokes with the monster or killer...either they shoot him, or they'll get the chainsaw.

If it's a cop movie, plan to see gunfights, car chases, hard-drinking, two fisted cops and REALLY bad guys, not the PC, "sensitive" crap we see all too often. Oh, and plan to see the good guys WIN.

I'd create an entire department just for the production of war movies (based on the CURRENT war), with films of the Air Force, Army , Marines, and Navy all being well-represented. NONE of them would cast the troops as anything other than the heroes they are.

In my sci-fi department, forget the current trend towards heroes who "must find their inner powers" to defeat the Evil Overlord. What they must find is their ammo, and their courage. My heroes won't be talkers...they'll be DOERS.

Hey, that formula worked well enough for Hollywood for 50-odd years.