Voiceover: Hollywood missing out on stories of the times

March 21, 2008 I'm not talking about setting all such movies in the business world, but rather using a relevant setting to talk about contemporary issues and character, ideas, relationships. While they all insist that "great storytelling" is the thing they're after, the conglomerates are under constant pressure to reduce their financial risks, leverage their assets, pump up the volume, dumb down or homogenize their movies for the global marketplace. [...] given the long lead times for making topical films, they leave it to the small screen to rip stories straight from the headlines.

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