Less dream, more factory (Hollywood/Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Variety ^ | October 22, 2006 | JILL GOLDSMITH, DAVE MCNARY

[abb]

More and louder baying, moaning, retching, wailing from the dinosaur compound on the West Coast aka Hollywood...

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Ping

[Hildy]

This is the FOURTH time this week the term "PERFECT STORM" has been used to describe something. I'm getting a bit tired of it.

[goldstategop]

The Beautiful People are discovering everything is more expensive?? Quelle surprise!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[outofsalt]

Don't you mean, "?Que Sorpresa?"

[Sundog]

Let them drink Bling H20

[finnman69]

so so actors who earn $20 million a picture are dinosaurs walking the jurassic earth wondering what what really bright light in the sky is

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

It's a PERFECT STORM of cliche usage.

[Hildy]

:)

[Anti-Bubba182]

"CEO Barry Meyer has warned of what he calls a "perfect storm" of labor unrest......"

Welcome to the real world you bunch of prima donnas.

[KellyAdmirer]

You know, they might even have to cut ticket prices to drive up demand.

Well, we don't want to get radical or anything....

[Hildy]

ousted Rosenberg ally Anne-Marie Johnson in favor of Kent McCord, viewed as the most uncompromising among SAG leaders.

Kent McCord of Adam 12 fame. He was very handsome then, and, judging by his pics now, has aged (AHEM) quite well!

THEN (Looks like Ashton Kutcher, no?):

NOW

[Milhous]

This is the FOURTH time this week the term "PERFECT STORM" has been used to describe something. I'm getting a bit tired of it.

FWIW Rahm just coined a cutesy Lakovian phrase "out over the tips of the skis" to try to quietly back away from MSM's irrational exuberance about Democrat chances during the upcoming midterm.

[Malone LaVeigh]

Some savvy Hollywood insiders claim that cuts too close to the bone imperil the creative process and the health of a studio.

Take a walk through any video store and tell me much creativity you see and how much cr@p.

[caseinpoint]

"they might even have to cut ticket prices to drive up demand"

What a tragedy! And they might even have to start making audience-friendly family fare instead of cutting-edge box office losers that make a "statement". I would go to or buy to a whole hunk of films if they would cut out the gutter language, hideously graphic bloodshed, and gratuitous sex scenes. Don't even get me started on those abominable bathroom scenes that every movie--serious or not--seems to have nowadays! If they want to make money, let them entertain America, not just international film critics. Hitchcock was a real artist while directors today are more like graffiti scrawlers compared to Monet.

[sgtbono2002]

Its mostly crap. I got free HBO this week as a trial and havent seen anything yet worth spending two hours to watch.

Add stars with peanut brains trying to tell the public how to live and how to think and who to vote for and you get a public that isnt coming to your crap movies.

[Borges]

The amount of bad Art has always grossly outnumbered the amount of good Art.

[Borges]

Hitchcock was always in the forefront of pushing the envelope of film content. When he finally got to work outside of the old self censorship of the recently collapsed Studio System in 1972's Frenzy he indulged in one of the of the most sadistic rape scenes ever filmed for an English language film.

[Milhous]

That perception isn't entirely true, as the industry has endured painful periods of retrenchment as well as wrenching labor upheaval in earlier generations.

Although George Lucas certainly suffers bouts of moonbattery he openly admits getting his break during the 1960s when lots of Hollywood talent left the silver screen after it got decimated by television. Similar opportunities exist today IMHO.

Lucas: Big pics are doomed

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Leave it to "Star Wars" creator George Lucas to pronounce the death of the Hollywood blockbuster.

"The market forces that exist today make it unrealistic to spend $200 million on a movie," said Lucas, a near-billionaire from his feverishly franchised outer-space epics. "Those movies can't make their money back anymore. Look at what happened with 'King Kong.'" The portly Lucas, whose "Star Wars" sequel was nominated for the Oscar in makeup, was clearly in Yoda mode at Saturday's Weinstein Co. party — Harvey Weinstein's first Oscar bash since he abandoned Miramax to Disney last year. "I think it's great that the major Oscar nominations have gone to independent films," Lucas told me, adding that it's no accident that the "small movies" outclassed the spectaculars in this year's Academy Awards. "Is that good for the business? No — it's bad for the business. But moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art!"

Was that a smirk? "In the future, almost everything that gets shown in theaters will be indie movies," Lucas declared. "I predict that by 2025 the average movie will cost only $15 million."

You heard it here first.

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Take a walk through any video store and tell me much creativity you see and how much cr@p.

That is what I was thinking when I read that sentence.