“I’ve tried to think of another business in America that cares less about its customers than the news business and I can’t think of any … their ideology trumps even their business sense and their desperate need to survive.” – Bernard Goldberg. (hat tip: Ed Driscoll)
Now, that comment hits hard against the news media, but it’s just as applicable to movies. How many anti-Iraq War movies have we seen since that war began … and how many failed? Why hasn’t Hollywood trotted out a half dozen clones of “The Passion of the Christ?”
A recent movie announcement shows this trend isn’t stopping any time soon.
Director Rod Lurie’s new film “Nothing But the Truth” got caught up in bankruptcy woes and had to flail away for a new distributor. Hardly a sign that there’s a big audience for a Valerie Plame-style story, right?
Well, then why is Sean Penn in talks to play Plame’s hubbie in a new drama about the CIA agent’s outing?
ideology often trumps business sense in Hollywood, too.
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Not so sure it is as much ideology as it is ego – Penn now is a multiple-Academy Award winner, and his attachment gives the project prestige.
Compare it to NFL franchises: our Washington Redskins team, as a business, is among the top 5 most successful in the world. However, the team itself barely breaks 0.500 each season and has not progressed beyond the 1st round of playoffs in many years – and THIS is what vexes its ownership, despite being so profitable an enterprise.
Ego. and we know that it is rife in Hollywood
~ Dagnabbitt
Dirty Harry’s point was that Hollywood isn’t doing well enough to uniformly insult and ignore the pro American audience. I beg to differ. Penn, Clooney, Pitt et al continue to pick up their enormous paychecks and Italian villas so where is the money coming from?
The one shining beam I see in the present darkness is the Obama tax plan. In order to pay for the astronomical levels of spending being planned the government is going to have to start taking the lion’s share of earned income from wonderful folks like the above stars. I will be interested in how this influences the Hollywood culture.