I actually tried to make a new account only to find out that I already registered with my standard username/password combo. Anyways, I don't often find anything worth commenting on, other people either beat me to things or the comments I would respond to are too old to be relevant to the thread's discussion.
Could you please describe "destroyed? What happened to it?
Just adding in when we hear all the babble of the "cost" of a film, it's so much more detailed and not cut and dry as advertised. Take an example of a picture costing $200 million bucks, blah, blah, blah. From script rights to production deals, lots of these costs get clumped in as actual costs of the films, but these expenses many times are actually part of other budgets, yet publicly lumped in as the cost of a film let alone the fact that they can be carried over several fiscal years. You have a production deal with a certain producer for five pictures and they slice the contract in fifths and attach the cost to each picture. In reality, they're paying the premium for whomever it is as cost of doing business and their services. Ugh. I'm going to get going on a rant. I'm stopping.
Wait...wasn't that Fitzgerald's handwriting?
I, too, really enjoy talking to those who get it and actually understand it all. It's an modern form of art for the studios to cry poor and to claim a loss on a film to screw creative.
That woman scares me. I would NEVER want to be on the opposite side of her in any quarrel.
Or demand free money from various cities, states/provinces, and nations...If people think the MBA crowd is well employed at TDO, they ain't seen nothing compared to what those studios have going for them in working magic with numbers.
