Make your movie however you can.

Ben Affleck breaks down exactly why Hollywood is dying and the math is brutal. It costs a minimum of $25 million just to shoot a movie today with any A-list stars, no massive action sequences just 40 to 50 days of standard production. Then you spend another $25 million to market it, which puts you at $50 million before a single ticket is sold. From there, theaters take 50% of every dollar at the box office so if your movie grosses $100 million, you walk away with $50 million , the exact amount you already spent making and marketing it. Which means a $25 million movie has to gross $100 million at the box office just to get back to zero. And most movies don't come close. The 2025 domestic box office hit $8.9 billion which sounds okay until you realize it's still down more than 20% from pre-pandemic levels, with the average wide release earning 14% less than it did the year before. So what happens when the math stops working? Studios stop taking risks. "When things are more expensive, people get risk averse. And when they're risk averse, they do the same shit. That's how you get the safe, homogenized stuff. And so it's a vicious cycle." The second thing killing it is streaming, people see the trailer, think it looks good, and decide to wait for it to hit Netflix. The only movies that survive the math are the ones audiences refuse to wait for which is why every theater slate looks like a Marvel calendar and why even Ryan Coogler making a Creed film with Michael B. Jordan is still considered a risk because it's not a sequel to a sequel. The system doesn't reward creativity but rather punishes it.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

No thanks. Val Kilmer isn't "starring" in anything. It's his digital image slapped onto a skin. It's not his effort, his energy, his talent or his soul. The only acting being done here is the pretense that it's still him and he's performing.