The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
It's tougher today because it's corporate Hollywood.
Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
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