Everyone in Hollywood is liberal, until it comes time for them to work without pay. Then they’re downright Reaganesque.
I feel for them. (/s)
Good news on a Friday afternoon.
I was hoping Hollywood would be incinerated in some Biblical Sodom-Gommorah upheaval but I guess a slow death is okay.
Ahhh - it's a comedy.
who is not on media strike? if you’re not, you should be.
no tv, no movies, no polls, no surveys, no dvds, etc.
it’s really the first in a series of strikes that will be necessary.
Just make movies that people want to see. Movies without token ethnics and gays. Movies about winning and individual achievement without all the politcally correct crap.
The next hit movie could easily be about the American Mafia taking on Radical Islamists and crushing them like bugs. It would take guts to make it but it would be bigger than the Godfather series.
But... but.. I thought Blu-Ray was going to save them?
I can’t say I feel sorry for the industry. It’s infested with libtards, just like academia.
They have no idea what it takes to create and sustain a real job and their liberal ideas for everyone else are fairy dust.
The book is over the top whining. The fact of the matter is that entertainment will always have a place.
As for the economics of filmmaking, it is far more complex than the author relates.
As for actors, writers, producers “begging for favors;” well big frickin deal. NOTHING NEW. that’s how H’wood works.
Celebrating the demise of Hollywood is premature, immature, and short-sighted.
I don’t go to movies anymore. I refuse to go because people will distract you with their cell phones or iPhones or whatever. I also can’t stand most of the “soundtracks.” To be hip, most movie makers cater to a very infantile audience with loud “thump, thump, thump” noise. I’ll just wait for the DVD or watch it on Pay Per View.
There were two guys in the 1980s, who bought the almost defunct Cannon Films studio for just $500,000. But they truly understood a magical thing called a “profit margin.”
For example, if a movie studio spends $200 million on a movie that makes $230 million, they have not done better than a movie studio that spent $10 million and made $50 million.
Well, these two guys, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, a pair of Israeli cousins, did this one better. They figured that if they made 10 movies for $1 million each, and just one of them was a hit, it would pay the production costs of all 10, and then some. But if there was one hit, two that did well, and four that broke even, they would make a fortune.
And that’s exactly what they did. Golan-Globus movies are for the most part utter junk, but the two cousins made a huge fortune with them. How many of these titles do you recognize?
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0206391/?ref_=fn_al_co_1
My point is that right now there is an opening for conservatives to create a film studio that instead of making utter junk, would use its production budget for things like screenplay, real acting, music performed by musicians, etc.
Small budgets, and mostly direct to DVD, and the sort of films that Internet pirates, or liberals, have little interest in seeing or stealing.
It could also have many things that liberal Hollywood shuns, like black actors who are not jackasses, Hispanic, Asian, India Indians and American Indians, who are neither stereotypical nor throwaway characters, etc.
And there are some good actors out there who really want to act, not just play Hollywood games with drugged out freaks.
Movie stars were doing t.v. and stars that had not been seen for awhile, suddenly coming back and taking roles. Several were selling off real estate and not replacing it.
We speculated that the economy was beginning to pinch the Hollywood faction and wondered how long it would be before they turned on the Anointed One?
Make good, wholesome movies and TV shows.
No gays, no transgenders, no foul language.
Just good stories with good morals.
You could try showing some of the great things our soldiers did for the people of Iraq who they liberated. I bet there are thousands of story ideas there.
The article is delusional balderdash. There will never be conservative movies coming out of Hollywood. The industry mindset is monolithic leftism. The studios control distribution. And wealthy conservatives do not spend money to make movies.
“She says an industry leader told her, “The DVD business represented fifty percent of their profits …”
NOT ENTIRELY TRUE. I work in Hollywood as a producer. The large percentage or the most worthy percentage to take is the video market for on-demand and streaming video such as netflix or TW cable. You don’t have a binding contract with those, you might as well sell you TV show on Craigslist or uplaod it free via bitorrent. Most producers I know don’t even count DVD sales as their primary revenue.