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.
>>(just look at the Toy Story 3 budget, the Harry Potter 7 & 8 budget, <<
LOVED TS3!
And my family is beside themselves for HP7. In my mind, it needs to be better than 6, though.