Given the high stakes of making movies, the movie-makers want to know what it is that makes an audience willing to see movies. Don't let the critics see your movie before it opens. It's a practice more and more studios are adopting with movies they're afraid will not be popular with critics. In Korea recently, some artists have been beaten up by factions who thought the artists hadn't portrayed them faithfully in their work. It has artists scared.
Historical dramas are freer from government interference.
These countries are offering an ever-growing list of financial incentives to U.S. producers in an effort to build their own production capacity and increase their share of the worldwide production industry. Other countries, recognizing the value of film and television production to their future economic health, are virtually bribing U.S. producers to make their films and TV series outside the United States. Some parts of the film production business in Los Angeles are down as much as 30 percent this year, and the business is in a big slump. Since then thousands of potential micro-broadcasters have applied to begin broadcasting. But the FCC's plans have run into resistance from established broadcast interests who say they're concerned that the low-power stations, slipped into vacant frequencies on the FM dial, will create static and diminish their product.