Six Things the Film Industry Doesn’t Want you to Know!

Six Things the Film Industry Doesn’t Want you to Know!

First is tricky Hollywood accounting.  This may sound ridiculous, but it happens quit often.  “A studio makes a movie,” and then distributes the movie, but however the distributor is basically a separate company and both belong to the same parent company.  And they also set whatever fee they want.  This is the interesting part if they want to charge themselves eleven “quintillion” dollars for distributing the movie they can.  It doesn’t stop there, even if they, in the box office, earn billions of dollars, they are still in debt, to themselves, and have not turned a profit. 

Take for example David Prowse, who was the guy in the Darth Vader costume in the original Star Wars trilogy, get this he has “never been paid for Return of the Jedi because it hasn’t turned a profit” in 30 years.  Think of all the home movies and theatrical re-releases that movie has had and he never got paid.  That is just one example of how Hollywood accounting has screwed someone over.

Next is extorting theaters.  We’ve all been there at the movies and spent $7 on a box of popcorn.  The truth is movies theaters had to look for ways to “increase revenue,” upping the prices on things like candy and adding ads to the start of films.  You may ask yourself why is this when new releases are continually breaking records and make “obscene amounts of money?”  It’s simple, film studios don’t want theaters getting a break.  

Third, fake reviews.  You’ve probably never seen a trailer for a movie that is dumb.  Think of one critic’s review of “Live Free or Die Hard” got cut from “hysterically overproduced and surprisingly entertaining” to “hysterically…entertaining.” 

Then there’s, copyright bullshit.  The thing is big companies use copyrights as a way to keep people from what they right. 

And strangling consumer choice, you see Hollywood studios don’t like companies like Netflix, Redbox or Hulu because they don’t want you to watch you what you want when you want at a reasonable price.  The reason is because it cuts into their profits of DVD’s and pay-per-view rentals. 

Last, stealing scripts.  It’s “almost commonplace.”  There are many examples of writers pitching an idea to Hollywood producers including a big name for the movie.  And then a few months later a similar movies with, that you guessed it, the big name actor, comes out.