anything, it needs to work on its stories/scripts - then even the most generic of potboilers can at least deliver some goods. Hollywood needs to encourage and accept new talent from across the world and set up a system that allows writers to be able to access the sytem directly (a simple script reading service for studios that allows people to send in ideas, stories, screenplays etc). The BBC does this - to an extent - with the BBC writer's room and there are other services available out there. Not everybody with talent has an agent (and not everybody with an agent has talent) so there needs to be a simple honesty between author and studio - an acceptance of first time screenwriters and also the knowledge that any submissions can be bought and altered accordingly. I think there's a definite way of allowing a bridge to be built between Hollywood and its consumers as there feels to be a vast divide. Open the lines of communication. That might help. Pay more attention to the writers and less to the art designers who constantly screm for more and more expensive and ultimately pointless CGI. Hollywood in the last 15-20 years or so seems to have suffered from a lack of substance in its films, and is producing more and more mind-numbing teen-something films and really bad remakes. Whats needed is directors and influential producers to have the bottle to stand up to this growing infatuation with inane recycled jokes and