Re: Max Landis article on Deadline
I guess it's a matter of opinion whether you see this as a fortunate or unfortunate thing, but early success leads to lots and lots of opportunity, regardless of whether or not those new opportunities pan out.
Eventually, if Landis keeps writing duds, people will stop giving him money... maybe. But it's gonna take a while for that to happen. Hell, M Night Shyamalan figures to be making flops until he dies at this rate.
Slightly different, because he's a producer, but a guy I worked for when I first got out to LA used to be an executive at a studio. Then he retired and got a deal with the studio to produce his own stuff. This was in the 80's. He's made about 15 movies since then. The first one was profitable. The other 14 lost money. The most recent one he made lost (I s*** you not) 99.5% of its budget. Yet he still is active. Still has meetings with heads of production at studios. Still gives advice to Oscar winning directors when they call and ask for it. And this guy is an objective failure. His one success wasn't even that great.
So like I said, it depends on how you look at it. For people struggling to break in, it probably sucks. "They gave THAT GUY money AGAIN?" But if you can be one of those people who makes some big successful thing, you'll be set for life, even if you tripped into that success and all your other ideas are terrible and fail.
Who knows? It might even make sense. Most things in Hollywood lose money. So when you can give a financier a 1,000% return, they're happy to give you money to burn in the hopes that you find that 1,000% again.
I guess it's a matter of opinion whether you see this as a fortunate or unfortunate thing, but early success leads to lots and lots of opportunity, regardless of whether or not those new opportunities pan out.
Eventually, if Landis keeps writing duds, people will stop giving him money... maybe. But it's gonna take a while for that to happen. Hell, M Night Shyamalan figures to be making flops until he dies at this rate.
Slightly different, because he's a producer, but a guy I worked for when I first got out to LA used to be an executive at a studio. Then he retired and got a deal with the studio to produce his own stuff. This was in the 80's. He's made about 15 movies since then. The first one was profitable. The other 14 lost money. The most recent one he made lost (I s*** you not) 99.5% of its budget. Yet he still is active. Still has meetings with heads of production at studios. Still gives advice to Oscar winning directors when they call and ask for it. And this guy is an objective failure. His one success wasn't even that great.
So like I said, it depends on how you look at it. For people struggling to break in, it probably sucks. "They gave THAT GUY money AGAIN?" But if you can be one of those people who makes some big successful thing, you'll be set for life, even if you tripped into that success and all your other ideas are terrible and fail.
Who knows? It might even make sense. Most things in Hollywood lose money. So when you can give a financier a 1,000% return, they're happy to give you money to burn in the hopes that you find that 1,000% again.
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