There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
Movies are an expensive business.
A lot of films come out before they're finished.
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression.
There's not a lot of good movies being made.
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
Movies are just ridiculously expensive.
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.