Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
From Peter Bart
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.
Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.
The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.
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.
We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.
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