Can Hollywood Evade the Death Eaters?

NY Times ^ | November 6, 2005 | LAURA M. HOLSON

[lawgirl]

we need to the film industry what foxnews is to the MSM- then you'll see a studio that makes some serious dough.

[mel]

I do want to see the Johnny Cash movie. I do like Reese Witherspoon.

[Tempest]

They're worried about their large profit margins being cut into by the looming media format of HD-DVD Vs. Blu-ray. The ever altruistic (with other people money) nature of Hollywood has decided to jettison the lowly expendable workers in order to keep themselves fully nourished with their daily supply of caviar and martinis.

[mel]

I know they are limiting the number of people who can see their movies so they are basically shooting themselves in the foot. I am becoming fond of stuff that was on BBC or earlier series such as Centennial, Vanity Fair, Forsyte Saga

[Liberty Valance]

Halliburton was scheduled to revamp Hollywood but they just got a new contract to rebuild the Paris suburbs as soon as the levees in New Orleans are finished ;o) /s/

[Calvin Locke]

You mean movies about/with "gay cowboys eating pudding" is a genre that won't cut it with audiences?

[KateatRFM]

No, church ads showing mainstream churches with burly bouncers turning away gay couples -- but welcoming them to the Methodist Church -- won't cut it here.

[q_an_a]

you are welcome. if you like Poland then the little things in this each one hour movie will tug at you.

[Sam the Sham]

But then again, that is when the auteurs took over. Guys who knew nothing of real life and real people but knew every shot in "Citizen Kane". So inevitably movies become so self-referential that we have a situation like now where every romantic comedy recycles the same stupid cliches and every action adventure movie has been Bruckheimered to death.