The Hollywood executive gets money. It is impossible to discover the net profit on a picture because this figure is a closely-guarded Hollywood secret. The Melanesians also have their secrets. South Sea island chiefs are sometimes chosen for reasons other than their ability. So are Hollywood executives.
Nepotism occurs fairly frequently in the film industry.
Among, the Maori, too, kinship is important. The relationship between producer and writer in Hollywood is like that of man and wife. This is an inversion of primitive animism. Primitives divine the future by examining the entrails of chickens or the gall bladders of pigs. In Hollywood polls are used for this purpose.