[Poohbah]

I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy...

Several "War on Terror" movies have been pitched.

The problem is that the studios are deathly afraid of losing the overseas market. Often, a complete clinker of a film will do well in France (witness Jerry Lewis). It's a mechanism that encourages the production of crap (which explains the large amount of expensive crap that gets produced--Battlefield Earth actually made money when it went into overseas release).

Some of the big overseas distributors are virulently anti-American. A movie that celebrates America gets marked "triumphalist" and gets blacklisted outside of America. If it does badly here, all of that money is lost.

We need a concerted boycott effort against Hollyweird. The US market is huge. They need to understand that losing the US market is a real risk--and that it will cost them a lot of money.

This is remarkably easy for me--I can't stand the crap that comes out these days--but we need a bigger boycott pool than myself and my family.

[Long Cut]

They wouldn't be so worried about the overseas market if they were doing a good job holding on to this one.

Used to be, Hollywood cared very little for the overseas market...that was just gravy. Seems to me that they've already driven away a chunk of their audience in the States...witness the major turkeys they've lost dough on the past few years.

It seems that lately, all they can do is 1. Remake older, better movies; 2. Movieize old, fondly-remembered TV shows; 3. Sequelize the above until the property is bled dry; 4. keep trying to make morons like Adam Sandler a star.