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The financial structure of making a Hollywood movie is very strange. It's an accounting nightmare with thousands of moving parts built over decades of favors, t
by drunkpotato 16y ago
The financial structure of making a Hollywood movie is very strange. It's an accounting nightmare with thousands of moving parts built over decades of favors, trades, and union negotiations. The few blockbuster movies of the year sustain the whole system. It's a very difficult business to make money in. I don't understand it all myself, and neither does the screenwriter who tried to explain parts of it to me.
Everyone involved wants to make a good movie, and everyone most of all wants to make a movie that sells, but it's not always possible to tell what will turn out well and what people will like. So we get a lot of bad movies and a few good ones. A lot of flops and a few blockbusters.
- jessriedel 16y agoAre you disagreeing with my claim that the public doesn't want good movies, or that making good movies (though maybe not great movies) isn't that hard? If the former, why would we need the opinion of a single screenwriter, when we can just look at what the public chooses to watch? If the latter, I was claiming that it's easy for the movie studios to come up with a few good movies (just hire directors with good track records to make many movies for the price of a single big-budget shoot-em-up; statistically, you should get a decent film), not that it's easy on any given set to make a single good movie.