So, set up a go fund me page for aspiring writers to make good movies.
And remember, most big movies are produced for an international audience who is tired of “AMERICA!” So, look for Chinese names under the producers and “money” people. That is where the money comes from—and where the movies make money.
Not only is Hollywood not in charge of their productions, they are thinking less and less about the US audiences.
From Boxofficeguru.com:
Avengers Infinity WarS
international 1361.2 million
domestic 678.8 million
worldwide 2040.0 million
as of 6/24/18
foreign 66.7 percent
domestic 33.3 percent
Black Panther
Total boxoffice as of 8 Aug 2018 1347.7 million
percent internatonal 48
percent domestic 52
Jurassic World _ fallen Kingdom
Total box office as of Sept 16 2018 1303.3 million
percent international 68.1
percent domestic 31.9
They should be focusing less and less on American audiences; they realize that primarily low-information people are glued to the screen (TV or movie) for entertainment, and so they have to cast a much wider net. It is no accident that pop-up ads and such appear on PCs and smartphones; sellers have to reach people who actually have discretionary income. If you have a weekday off (I notice this on some of the standard Monday holidays), notice how many commercials are slip-and-fall ambulance chasers - this is that time slot’s viewing demographic. American entertainment has come to grips with the fact that many normals no longer turn on TV after dinner to be fed ideas and commercials; this is related in a big way to the NFL’s current problems. Why target programming/movies to a dwindling American audience of millions when literally billions of people in other countries may buy your product instead?
I have four pretty darn good scripts:
“Malta,” about the defense of Malta in 1565
“Red, White, and Blues Band” about a group of Indian, white, & “goth” kids playing basketball on an Indian reservation
“The Search Committee,” a “weekend at Bernies meets the Paper Chase” comedy
and
“Halsey’s Bluff” a counter factual about WW II in which the Japanese win the battle of Midway . . . then all hell breaks loose.
Movies require between $3-5m for small budget pics (”Let there Be Light” was in that range), while the action pics are more like $30 to $150m.
Ain’t a go-fund me account in the world that can cover that.
“Gosnell” raised $2.1m by gofundme . . . but the producers, I’m told, had to spend up to 1/3 of that just to raise the money. In other words, the production budge (though even Nick Searcy, the director, was ever told what it was) was in the $1.5m range.