I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.
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.
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?
There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.
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.
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.