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.
Not exactly. They pre-sold the foreign film rights to finance the low budget projects.
Then there were other, more obnoxious and questionable practices.