[narby]

Both movies cost $100 million to make and if you choose wrong, then you get to be fired and known as the guy who made the "Amish comedy."

There's the falicy. Most such little movies are actually very inexpensive to make. You can have several failures and limited markets, and still make money.

[durasell]

Not with actors who have international recognition getting $5 million plus. And the fact of the matter is, movies have an extremely low tolerance for failure. That's expecially true now during a boom time. If you want to fail, then you can go to television.