Its been a tough few months in Hollywood. Their anti-US, anti-military movies have been tanking in truly historic terms.
JD Johannes, an independent filmmaker with a hand held camera, made a great documentary about Iraq titled Outside the Wire. As he recently noted on his blog, he has made more money with his film than Hollywood bigshot Brian DePalma has with his latest stinker, Redacted. This is classic,
Brian DePalma’s award winning anti-war movie earned $25,628.
It was made for $5,000,000.
That is .5% return of the initial investment.
My first documentary cost $35,000 to make, and thanks to the supporters of the Outside the Wire project, has made $23,464 or 67% return of the initial investment.
When one guy with a camera is beating Hollywood in rate of return and almost beating Hollywood in gross receipts–Hollywood has a problem.
Oh yea, they got problems. Big problems. It looks like Robert Redford’s latest, the star studded (Tom Cruise, Merryl Streep) Lions for Lambs is going to lose $25 million.
Hollywood’s next “big idea”, courtesy of Oliver Stone,
Tehran Times
Oliver Stone may visit Tehran for Ahmadinejad biopicTEHRAN — Oscar-winner U.S. director Oliver Stone will likely travel to Tehran to hold discussions with Iranian officials on his proposal to make a biopic about President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Alireza Sajjadpur told the Mehr News Agency on Friday.
I’m sure this will turn things around for Hollywood. Whatever they do, they should absolutely avoid telling stories like this, this, this and this. No way the American public would want to see that.