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R. Dittmar
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu

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Posted - 11/13/2007 :  1:47:21 PM  Show Profile  Visit R. Dittmar's Homepage
Here's some interesting commentary from a screenwriter on the latest spate of anti-war bombs to come out of Hollywood:

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/11/post_257.php

The economics of this are interesting if Simon is correct. Apparently, the studios can bundle snoozefests like Lions for Lambs and sell them in packages with other stuff that people actually want to watch. The Hollywood types are therefore free to make pretentious stuff that no one wants to see to salve their consciences without having to loose too much money.

Ericb
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USA
648 Posts
Posted - 11/13/2007 :  2:16:55 PM  Show Profile
Sort of like a moral version of a tax writeoff.

"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp
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Citizen Carrier
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322 Posts
Posted - 11/13/2007 :  10:35:39 PM  Show Profile
I believe it.

Nobody is watching these movies because the unwashed masses can't take high, noble drama like that?

Pish tosh.

He's right. Want to know why the masses aren't watching your movie? Twenty years ago it may have been a lot tougher to figure out why your movie doesn't sell. You'd have to rely on focus groups or just believe that people actually listen to movie critics before they spend their dollar.

In this Internet Age? Heck, the people themselves will use up billions of electrons explaining to you EXACTLY what it is about you and/or your movie that stinks.

I wonder if the producers making Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity have figured that out yet...
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jackspencerjr
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262 Posts
Posted - 11/17/2007 :  5:07:07 PM  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by R. Dittmar

Apparently, the studios can bundle snoozefests like Lions for Lambs and sell them in packages with other stuff that people actually want to watch.


Yeah. This is old Hollywood deal-making. One time a film based on a national best-seller was coming out, but the studio had also financed a juvenile science fiction flick which theater owners did not want to show, so the studio packaged them. If they wanted the hot ticket based on the best-selling book, they need to show the corny little fantasy as well.

That film was Other Side of Midnight, based on the Sidney Shelden novel.

And that silly little fantasy film no one wanted to see was Star Wars.
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