“Hollywood is all about money, but ideology is extremely important.”
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Michael Medved (”Hollywood vs. America”) among others has shown that movie industry denizens care more about the adulation of their peers and their own prejudices than in making money for investors and shareholders. The numbers for years have been showing that “family-friendly” fare makes more at the box office than sex, violence and fashionable existential despair.
The hate-america genre is an especial money-loser but that sure doesn’t stop them.
Family films will always make more money because parents have to go to the movies with their kids. As opposed to teens or adults going by themselves. It’s stating the obvious. As for violent films not making money ‘Saw IV’ made a lot this last weekend. If you cede the marketplace to anti-social teenagers you’ll get what you (don’t) pay for.
“The hate-america genre is an especial money-loser but that sure doesn’t stop them.”
The free market is not being allowed to work here, then.
Hollywood is defined by the gross financial over-compensation of those with limited talent. “Acting talent”......please. “Directorial genius”....yeah, right.
Hollywood needs some serious competition from a major league purveyor of video with a conservative orientation.
Bump to your Medved reference.
It’s NOT about money; wish it were that easy!