“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.