Posted on 03/21/2014 5:49:47 AM PDT by envisio
Sherwood Pictures, of Albany, Georgia, has made some great movies. They are affiliated with a Baptist church.
We need more companies such as Sherwood Pictures to provide competition to the sewer of Hollywood.
Except for Disney, the men that have run the big Hollywood Studios from the 30’s to now have been not just been anti-Christian.
There are Christians making films. Pure Flix is one and the Kendrick brothers made Fireproof, Courageous and a few others.
Sorbo was in 2 television shows, Hercules and Andromeda. He now does Christian and independent films because Hollyweird has blacklisted him for being a Christian.
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“Practically speaking, Hollywood is dying.”
Movies and television have never been more profitable than right now. And other states and other countries are finally figuring out how to make good stuff — by following Hollywood’s lead. If anything, Hollywood is expanding.
“Giant multinational corporations have bought up the studios”
Nope. The successful studios grew into giant corporations, by virtue of their success. Like Disney. And Warner Bros. Non-movie, widget-making corporations who try to run studios fail miserably at it. As when GE bought NBC.
“and they only want scripts that conform to the book “Save the Cat”
There are consistent elements in every successful script that go all the way back to Shakespeare. All the way to the Greek dramatists. “Save the Cat” just codifies them for you so you can write your own. If your script DOESN’T conform to “Save the Cat,” it probably doesn’t work as a dramatic or comedic structure.
“The last big money making enterprise in Hollywood was Canon Films, run by Golan-Globus, who produced dozens of low budget, but high margin movies, 8 of 10 of which just needed to break even, with 1 or 2 of 10 being successful, to make them very rich.”
CANON FILMS?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You mean the company that suckered up front production money from international buyers and used half to make their terrible movies, while the rest went in their pockets? That was a Ponzi scheme. Please name a successful Canon movie. And don’t say “Runaway Train” just because it got an Oscar nomination. It didn’t make money. None of their films made money at the U.S. box office, which is the only metric that counts. A studio that ends in bankruptcy after only a few years is not a success.
“So this is what conservative actors should do. And not in Hollywood and that disaster of a state, California, but somewhere else. A new film production center, with entirely different values.”
The most successful movies, the ones everyone in the U.S. and around the world wants to go see, come from Hollywood. That you’re mad at California for some reason doesn’t make this sound business advice.
Kevin Sorbo had his shot as a lead actor in a big film called “Kull the Conqueror.” It failed, and so did he as a leading man in movies.
Patricia Heaton works. Kelsey Grammar works. Nobody cares that Kevin Sorbo is a conservative. What he needs to do is be a better actor.
Um, no. That's kiddie punk entertainment drivel, not a class movie.
Sorbo has done some very good movies. I suspect they aren't your "type" of entertainment.
No need to get hostile or personal. You simply cannot dispute that “Kull the Conqueror,” whatever its genre or intended audience, was a big studio, big-budget, highly-promoted film in the vein (they hoped) of “Conan the Barbarian.” If it had been successful, Sorbo would have been offered the lead in other big studio films. It wasn’t, so he wasn’t.
By the way, Schwarzenegger built Conan — his own “kiddie punk” film debut — into a hugely successful film career, despite being a conservative, despite being a terrible actor, arguably much worse than Sorbo.
So why didn’t Hollywood blackball him? Because Arnold’s movies Make. Money. Tons and tons of money. That’s the only political affiliation Hollywood cares about.
And I like Sorbo. I especially liked him in “Meet the Spartans.” I think he’s off base when he blames his career woes on his religion.
But I own this: What IF. I like it a lot.
By the way, Schwarzenegger built Conan — his own “kiddie punk” film debut — into a hugely successful film career, despite being a conservative, despite being a terrible actor, arguably much worse than Sorbo.
Arnie isn't openly a Christian. Sorbo is. Arnie has never challenged anyones political bent or lack of belief, Sorbo has.
“Arnie isn’t openly a Christian. Sorbo is. Arnie has never challenged anyones political bent or lack of belief, Sorbo has.”
Point taken. So then take a look at the career of Jim Caviezel (”The Passion of the Christ”). Not only did he play that role, he’s an out-loud Christian. If it’s true, as Sorbo claims, that an actor’s beliefs can stymie his career, how does he account for Jim Caviezel being cast as the lead actor in a high-profile CBS drama, “Person of Interest?”
If Sorbo was blackballed, why wasn’t Caviezel? I think the difference in their career trajectories can be chalked up to Caviezel being a better actor. And — even more important — “Person of Interest” is a hit. It’s just been renewed for another season. They’re making money with Caviezel.
Also, Sorbo is 55, the outside edge for an actor who built his career on hunkiness, not ability. If you don’t have the acting chops to segue to character parts, you’re done. And that’s not Hollywood’s fault — blame the audience, the same audience that’s abandoned Redford, Stallone, Arnold (till he started making old-guy reunion movies), Costner, and Harrison Ford (unless it’s Indiana Jones). Ageism is just the audience voting.
Sorbo had a pilot in 2005 that tested VERY high and the network passed on it. Tick off the wrong people and you're dead in Sodom of the West.
“Sorbo had a pilot in 2005 that tested VERY high and the network passed on it.”
Okay, but think about the logic of what you’re asserting. The same people who passed on the pilot are the ones who hired Sorbo in the first place.
Nobody casts an actor with the intent of passing on the project later because they don’t like the actor’s beliefs.
Networks pass on high-scoring pilots every day for a million different reasons. But it’s safe to say that if didn’t want Sorbo because of his beliefs, they never would have hired him in the first place.
You don't know much about Hollywood.
A few years ago there was an interviewer, ala James O'Keefe, that had producers and others openly admitting, on film, to blacklisting actors. It was posted on FR but it wasn't news as we all know it happens. Just ask Drew Carey.
“You don’t know much about Hollywood.”
I’m a professional TV writer.
The interviewer you’re talking about is Ben Shapiro, and he met with some marginal players who aren’t deciders in the entertainment industry. If those guys ever did attain a position of power, they’d be out of business tout suite, because bigotry costs money.
A bigot wouldn’t hire Christian conservative Jim Caveizel to be a network TV lead, and that bigot would be out all the money “Person of Interest” is making for CBS.
If Kevin Sorbo projects made money, Kevin Sorbo would have his pick of roles. Successful producers will hire anyone who makes them money. All else is sound and fury.
“Just ask Drew Carey.”
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HOW has Drew Carey been blacklisted, and for what? He was the LEAD ACTOR on a successful network sitcom for YEARS.
I’m a professional TV writer.
Right.................I dumped TV 5 or 6 years ago. It's trash.
But I discovered Sorbo recently via Pure Flix. They have some good stuff. Just watched Courageous too. Hollyweird can take a flying leap.
Seriously, get away from Hollywood.
I hope the rest of your day is Blessed.
That may be true but Sorbo took it all to the bank.
Someone watches “Person of Interest”?
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