He’ll just jump on the bailout train.
It would be amusing to see him holding a sign that reads “Will Direct for Food”.
It looks like “W” is sinking like a....Stone.
The Overseas crowd will make up the difference.
They already got one:
Bailout Bill Packs Pork for Hollywood (Newsmax 10-27-08 James Hirsen)
But did folks really know it included ham for Hollywood? Buried deep in the pages of the $700 billion package are some gift-wrapped goodies for the entertainment industry.The legislation eliminates a budget cap on the existing tax deduction, which had been limited to flicks costing less than $15 million. Big studio movies that have budgets exceeding $100 million now qualify.
In addition, films shot in the U.S. now qualify for a tax deduction that was given to domestic manufacturers in 2004, which capped the top tax rate at 32 percent instead of 35 percent.
For Hollywood’s portion of the bailout, according to a report published by the Joint Committee on Taxation, taxpayers will be footing the bill for $358 million in 2009 and $470 million by 2018.
Ah... the meltdown of liberal media.
I hope they go broke.
Did anyone see that American Carol? I so want to go spend money. I think I am going to go by 10 tickets just to show support for the movie.
Too bad the international audience will eat it up.
I watched it online already, just to see.
It’s real choppy and doesn’t go anywhere.
The Liberals are very disappointed with it...:)
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/w_stone
Sinking just like all of the other anti-President Bush movies. Good!
JoMa
OK, did anyone here actually see “W”? I did and thought it was quite good. And I’m a fairly big Bush fan (the dozen or so who are left). I think history will judge him pretty well.
Anyway, the movie was exactly like his biography, which I read—at least the stuff pre-2000, which the biography was.
Give it a look. I liked it. It’s a biopic and the Bush family is an interesting one.
You'd think this industry would run itself like any other profit-making business beholden to shareholders, but they don't. They're just like the MSM, willing to lose dollar after dollar for their shareholders in order to make extreme political points.
If this were any other industry, the leadership would have been removed long ago.
-PJ
I KNOW this movie is a hit piece on Bush, but I gotta say the previews looked kind of funny to me. I was intrigued.
I MAY rent it when it comes out on DVD... next week :-)
I saw an interview with Stone and he admitted he took smidgens of truth and heavily exaggerated them.
It IS nice to know it will lose money.
I’m sure it will get an Oscar though.
FEW movies are worth going to see at the theater.
I think the last one hubby and I went to see at the theater was “Saving Private Ryan.”
Too bad it won’t be enough to send him to the poorhouse.
This sad situation can be easily resolved. If Obama is elected, he will take the gross receipts from a success like HSM3 and share them with losers like W. Hey, it’s only fair.
The public is much smarter than the media that are trying to control public opinion. Bollywood and the propaganda machines seem to miss the most obvious point: the public has cast its vote by turning away from movie attendance, “the agenda”, “news” subscriptions and certain TV channels.
The propagandists seem to rather go bankrupt than change their evil ways.
But that’s not the point of the movie. It’s a way to get around campaign contribution limits.