the movie business would be all right even with the pirates if they made movies people wanted to watch.
i have read at free republic and elsewhere that a lot of great iraq/afghan war screenplays have been written since 2001.
but they were never made into movies because some part of them was politically incorrect.
A movie about the Marines taking Fallujah would probably make a fortune. It will not be made, because it would show our troops in a good light. Especially after all the anti-war flicks bombed (ha, ha,) at the box office.