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Money's Too Tight (To Mention) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUB0g8Vjgg

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[A_perfect_lady]

Hollywood is dying. I live here, and I can kind of feel it. It’s all reality shows, youtube, and video games now.

[netmilsmom]

I’m not sure this is completely correct.
I think Hollywood is just banking on sure things.

The next Batman and Ironman are being made.
Avengers is being made. Atlas Shrugged is on it’s way.

I think Hollywood just isn’t taking chances on things that are not sure bets. With that, Disney has started a policy that there is a three month window between big screen and DVD. It cut the movie theaters out of a lot and because they don’t have to pay theaters as much, they can afford to spend less on films.

[LS]

That's why we think we can make a success of our newly launched "Rockin' the Wall Studios." We think "Rockin' the Wall" will be very successful, and have a sequel already in the works, "Other Walls to Fall," about music's ability to subvert and penetrate Korea, Cuba, and above all, the Middle East. After that, we have three big features lined up, including the apex of it all, a mega-bucks movie about the Christian victory at Malta over the Muslims.

Insiders always say, "Hollywood will never make that movie." PRECISELY. That's why we will!

[Tupelo]

I don't understand. Why can't Mr. Silver get funding for his movie? After all aren’t we right smack dab in the middle of RECOVERY SUMMER?
Did not 0bama & Biden tell us so?
Hell, by Sept. 1, money should be flowing like wine. Especially for the liberal Hollywood types.

[Vince Ferrer]

They should remake the big depression era musicals and Cecil B. Demille's movies. At least it would give jobs to a lot of extras.

[Chode]

ahhh yes, the toilet that landed on the copcar intact after being blown out of the house...

[Zakeet]

... for your future reference ...

Warning labels applicable to virtually every MSM Newser

[sportutegrl]

Hollywood isn’t in the mood, but the movie going public is. In hard economic times, people want escapism. Some of the best movies ever made came out during the Great Depression: GWTW and The Wizard of Oz, for example. People wanted an escape from their dreary existence.

[lionheart 247365]

Be on the look out for the new Video ,,,, Runaway Slave ,,,, that ought to get Hollywierd gasping for air .

[LibFreeOrDie]

Movies are dying because the 90-120 minute format of storytelling is dead.

The best writing and stories are on the cable network series: Sopranos, Mad Men, Dexter, Burn Notice...

[ansel12]

Hollywood does not know how to tell stories anymore.

I watched “The Wolfman” last night, I could see the money and the souped up special effects, but I had no idea what the movie was about or who the characters were, or why the script ever made it on the screen, nobody seemed interested in seeing the movie making process from the vantage point of the audience and the finished product. It was as though every individual division , writers, special effects people, stunt people, the individual actors, make-up, were all on steroids and strutting their little area of expertise, but to no common goal other than to make everything bigger and more expensive than the 1941 version.

All I could think of was how superior the old Wolfman movie was, and how much torment and anguish that Lon Chaney Jr could reveal with a simple shot of his face.

Special effects and technology, or even an updated script doesn’t replace a well told story that draws the audience into their own imaginations.

[truthguy]

Follywood!!!

I love the term. I just increased my vocabulary by one word. It's so appropriate and accurate.

Damn, wish I had thought of it! It's my first time seeing it. Congratulations to whoever coined it. I hope it becomes part of the lexicon. It's deserving.

[The Comedian]

The only down side of this effect is the shelving of the "Red Dawn" remake that was supposed to come out in a few months.

The rest of Hollywood can drown in each others' vomit for all I care.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[truthguy]

Mr. Silver, 58, has been a dominant studio moviemaker for over three decades, delivering blockbuster franchises like “Lethal Weapon,” “Die Hard” and “The Matrix.” The 59 movies he has produced have generated almost $10 billion in ticket sales...

And therein lies the problem! Before I get started, I'd like to mention this is a topic that could fill a good sized book. There are so many elements involved that it's hard to write a post. I'll bet that somewhere right now there is a book on this subject. So I'll just provide a brief list of some of the problems with Follywood. I could write a lengthy post on each one and many have touched on some of those themes and have made great comments.

1. Formulaic Scripts - Not many good screenplays being written, not many good writers.
2. Technology - Too much emphasis. Way overdone. The last 3 Starwars movies were a joke because of the over reliance on tech.
3. Left Wing Political Themes- Pervasive and insulting to anyone with intelligence. No need to expand on this.
4. Violence- Way to much gratuitous violence. I despise Tarantino's movies. Total garbage but they seem to make money.
5. Movie Theater Behavior - When paying $10-Plus I don't want to hear people talking and behaving badly. There seems to be an epidemic of this.
6. No Creativity - Or very little. People have already make good comments on this.
7. Stupid Audience's - Yes, a really good movie will not attract large numbers. If a movie like say The Philadelphia Story were written and produced (assuming it could be done) would it attract an audience? I doubt it.
8. Ticket Prices - Too damn high. Maybe a rollback in prices would generate more money in ticket sales. Need to get people back into the theaters.

I sure there are more but I lack the time.

[discostu]

Silver’s problem isn’t any change in Hollywood, they still love spending mad fat cash making movies they think will be block buster (just look at the Toy Story 3 budget, the Harry Potter 7 & 8 budget, and plenty of others). Silver’s problem is he stopped making block busters. Hollywood has always been a “what have you done for me lately” place, the most successful producer out there has room for 2 MAYBE 3 flops in a row before nobody is returning his phone calls. For the last 7 years Silver has been batting about 300, the good news for him is he keeps coming up with periodic hits so they’ll keep returning his calls, the bad news is he’s had enough flops his fat budget days are pretty much over. Happens to everybody eventually, except Clint Eastwood.