The New Hollywood

The current Hollywood model is totally melting away, and the problem is that no one knows what the new model will look like, and the least likely people to figure that out -- the ones INSIDE the melting model -- are the ones trying to. They are failing. Most will go down with the ship...

In Hollywood, the "Old Guard" has all the money, and is more interested in back scratching than they are interested in making powerful, meaningful film and "movie going experiences". Or they simply don't know how to any longer... a sad thought.

"What if we put like 10 movie stars in one film together!"

The solution of: "Lets just remake old stuff. If it worked before it can work again right?" is fast becoming another failing model. People can see right through it, it's not worth a box office ticket price, much is not even worth Netflixing!

Because of things like Netflix and the web people are watching all the old movies, and thus many film buffs reject the idea of a remake, especially if they liked the original. Because people are also going backward into older films, the desire to go 'forward' -- to the theater -- for unoriginal films becomes less practical or appealing.

For me to go see a movie in the theater, I want something original. I want to be wowed with not just effects, but with story. I want to have my mind blown and my "reality and possibility" foundations rocked. At least for a couple hours.

I also feel that many old guard writers have peaked in what they can offer, but they, and their agents and managers have no interest in stepping aside for new writers, new voices and original stories. So they scratch backs and make crap, literally trying to cram it down the throats of the world audiences.

Karate Kid = Really? Jackie Chan is Chinese! Karate is Japanese! It's all a big joke. I feel like either they think the audience is just a bunch of pigs that will eat whatever trash they dump in the trough, or they themselves are just idiots, blinded by Nepotism and greed. "We'll just use the name of 'Karate Kid' because it was successful, we don't even need the Karate. Oh and we can just invite the cast of the original franchise to give it street cred." It's like making Godzilla, but instead of a Giant reptile, it's a Polar Bear! 'Karate Kid (2010) is major low point in cinema if you ask me. A perfect case study in how Hollywood is currently (not) working. Even if it did open at 54 million...

Bottom line is Hollywood is changing fast. Faster and faster by the day. And if the studios don't wake up to this fact, to the reality of the global film markets and what they want, to the new talent out there bursting with potential, then the (new) wave of change will sweep them all away...

Media Derivatives have the potential to be 'Hollywoods' 'Napster' but also create a huge boom in global film production. If Hollywood doesn't get ahead of the curve real fast they will end up like the record labels. Still there, but mostly stripped of their power and prestige.

Media derivatives could also place the ring of power in the hands of the agencies like CAA who are already in the biz of arranging financing. I see this trend as potentially taking off, the Studios could find themselves as merely renters of studio space.

If I was a Hollywood studio exec. I would be looking for a mind blowing story, with built in global appeal, able to utilize rapidly advancing 3-D technology... Concepts based on religion, cutting edge science, speculation... topics that already have universal appeal and recognition...

Scripts like the one I wrote!