Hollywood Re-Considers Substance Over Big Budgets and Stars
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by olivia
Big budget movies with big names have been taking a dive in recent years, and this past summer was no exception.
While some would blame this on an economy pushing most away from theaters, or even piracy taking a chunk of profits, this doesn’t appear to be the case.
The real culprit: well made, low budget movies with unknown names.
From ‘Paranormal Activity’, ‘District 9′ to ‘The Hangover’ amounts in the hundreds of millions are being drawn in by films that give the moviegoer a less stylized entertainment.
Well made scripts, good camera work, and phenomenal acting are finally making their way to the top priorities of movie goers, as films pushed purely by the star’s name on the poster move lower on the rung.
There are several examples of these flops in recent months, such as Jim Carrey’s new ‘A Christmas Carol’, which cost $175 million to produce, and only drew in $30 million at it’s opening.
Will Farrel’s ‘Land of the Lost’ also did poorly, as did Eddie Murphey’s ‘Imagine That’, and Adam Sandler’s ‘Funny People’.
“The (major movie) machine didn’t fly last summer, if you look at the movies and the names, they were not star-driven movies, they really weren’t,” Mandalay Entertainment chairman, Peter Guber, told Reuters.
As a consequence, A-list celebrities are being forced to take less money, breaking down the ridiculous salaries that could reach easily into the tends of millions for their part in a film.
I don’t know about you, but this can only be an improvement.
Hollywood is finally being pushed to create content that is high quality and entertaining, rather than churning out the same old garbage that has turned cinema into a joke.
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