>>What America — and the rest of the world — likes is what determines what gets made and who gets to work in the business of show. It is a business, afterall.<<
Not really. Otherwise Clooney would have stayed on ER. He sucks.
If I had billions, I could get a movie made. No matter what the unwashed masses want. That happens all the time. And that’s why theaters are losing money right and left. Ticket sales are down. Then they release something like Enchanted that made 50 mil in it’s first weekend, but it’s not art.
Enchanted was very well recieved. The three songs from it probably cancelled each other out in the voting. That and they don’t really work outside the film.
They don’t have billions. 99% pop culture is basically made by five companies — News Corp., Sony, Viacom, Time/Warner and Disney. However, movies are so expensive, even these companies can’t foot the bill themselves — they have to pre-sell the movies to foreign and domestic distributors, TV rights, etc. etc.
Don’t make any mistake about it — movie making is hardcore capitalism.