Posted on 03/14/2006 12:37:04 PM PST by American Quilter
If Hollywood is so pitifully out of touch, how does the industry’s economic train keep chugging along? Why don’t market forces come crashing in on Hollywood executives, sort of like the way the Red Sea came crashing down on Pharaoh’s army in “The Ten Commandments”? The answer’s in the numbers.
Let’s take a sampling of 5 left-leaning, hot button’ films from last year, all of which were Oscar-nominated and four of which won Oscars: “Brokeback Mountain,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “Syriana,” “The Constant Gardener” and surprise Best Picture winner “Crash.” The average budget for these five films was about $20 million. Their average worldwide gross? Just over $80 million - and that doesn’t even include DVD revenues.
Perhaps you’re getting the picture: there’s decent money to be made being left-wing, so long as a film’s budget is low. Among left-leaning films that underperformed this year, the chief culprits were “Jarhead” and Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” - and really only because those films cost too much (both around $70 million).
So what’s going on here? Hollywood has recently perfected a formula whereby low-budget, indie-looking films generate good reviews, controversy, and oceans of free publicity (a lot of it coming from the conservative media) due to a film’s left-wing worldview. And all this free buzz gets translated into box office dollars.
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You are absolutely correct.
The Hollywood bigshot did not like this development, but said it was inevitable.
Has anyone heard anything about Will Ferrell dying in a freak accident today?
That's what I've always thought, too, but this article makes a case that it's not so, or at least that Hollyweird's doing just fine without us.
Lucas is the guy who started the modern 'bigger and dumber is better' phase with Star Wars. That era couldn't end fast enough for me.
Yep.... hollywood has figured out that they have so turned off most of America, that they have to make low budget, 2nd rate films to chisle out a profit. No matter how they spin it... that's the bottom line.
Eric Raymond has some good ideas.
No. RUMINT?
Or....maybe, more conservatives are pirates who make illicit copies of movies thus depriving Hollywood of more money with which to tempt us.
parsy, who needs some tempting.
YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT?
That's encouraging. I've liked everything Gary Sinise does, and I really respect his constant work on behalf of veterans.
I didn't know they were into production.
"Here's the bad guy! He's wearing black, so he's bad! And listen to the music! It's scary music! So he must be really bad! In a minute, we're going to switch to a happier place, and the music will change! But for now, we're going to have the bad guy step on a wounded guy, because some of you might not be clear on the fact that he's a bad guy! Here it comes! Close-up! Ooooooooh! He stepped right on him!! See how bad he is? Okay, now it's time for the happy scene, on 3 ... 1-2-3!"
I think it's time we created a Hollywood Violent Movie Tax. Collect all the money and give it to friends...then run for governor...YEAH!
it'sforthe childrenjusttryingtosavelivesBushfault
Well Lucas a lot more then Spielberg. Jaws and Close Encounters were fundamentally intelligent films. And big splashy orchestral scoring had been around since the beginning. Williams just revived it from its late 60s slumber when rock soundtracks were the rage.
wasn't he killed by his wife a few years ago? mabbe someone else
I was about to respond angrily then finished reading your post.
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