Soooo....Mass Effect 3

[Lissa]

I think the facts about how much his movies make after the first weekend, and overall, (exception here being Sixith Sense) shows how bad his writing/directing is. Follow the links and you'll see how bad he's been doing. Hint, he doesn't do very well. It's typically only due to world wide release that he makes any money (and he's actually bombed serveral times on his last few films).

So yes, if you end up losing money, you won't be writing further unless you can produce it yourself (and most people in the entertainment industry can't).

I don't understand what "only due to world wide release" means to the argument. What does a producer care if he earns it in the US or not? If he was losing money, that would be different, but he isn't. Check the full numbers individually for each link - every last one of those movies except The Lady in the Water has made lots of money.

Regardless, he *is* making movies. Still. With A-listers and big budgets. So, whatever your priors, his hackneyed crap is still being made. Thus, his example does not serve your argument at all, let alone as a one-shot kill.

-Jester

Point being, and you missed it from the first post, unless you produce yourself (which he is), you're not going to get anyone willing to finance you if people don't care for your stories. Did you totally miss that his last three films bombed horribly? He lost money in all three of the last films in total gross. Take a look at the difference between what he made in total money from Sixth Sense vs. what it cost and then look at his last three films in the total money made and what each cost. He's been on a downward trend since Signs. If it weren't for the fact that he's producing himself, he'd not be making movies at all.

You said it yourself, and I said it in my first post, if the consumers don't like your stories, unless you produce yourself, you will not find a producer to take a risk on your stories because you won't make them money because the consumers don't like your stories. Most writers/directors cannot produce themselves, so you better have a track record of stories people like in order to get producers to let you tell your stories. So anyone like Hudson right now needs to take a note of the kind of backlash that is coming from an ending of entertainment media. Why else do you think BioWare is back pedaling right now on the ending of ME 3? The ending of ME 3 is costing them potential future dollars and they know they have to fix that so EA doesn't step in and take tighter control.