Hollywoke is going broke. There is no such thing as a blockbuster anymore. Most new films are unwatchable garbage and even big marketing dollars don’t draw interest. The recent Disney bomb , The Little Mermaid, is proof. Nothing Disney produces is any good, and even if it was there are too many people who want nothing to do with increasing their bottom line...
Like anything else, film is not dead, it is just temporarily out of sorts because it has lost its mission...
I think we can look forward to the death of the old guard and the emergence of something entirely new...
There are a few people in Hollywood who still produce consistently good content (Tom Cruise being the most prominent lately), but ultimately, decentralization of the filmmaking industry is long overdue.
It used to make practical sense for the majority of movies to be made in one city (especially when westerns were King and could be shot on location just a few miles outside of Los Angeles), but jet travel, green screen, and the Internet have changed things so drastically that the Hollywood system isn't needed anymore.
Most Hollywood movies aren't even shot in Hollywood anymore (they're often shot in places like Georgia for tax breaks), so why even produce them from Hollywood offices anymore?
I think any profit from Tom’s “good content” might go to the church of Scientology…don’t they worship an alien?
Some portion of it might, although not before Paramount and the other investors involved take their cut, which is the majority.
No. The alien in question is Xenu, who is essentially their Satan. They loathe him.
Here's an updated color version of the classic "An Illustrated History of Scientology", which is a great tongue-in-cheek (but genuinely accurate) explanation of what Scientologists are taught:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtuKdzw5LQ
And here's the Xenu story narrated by L. Ron Hubbard himself with some humorous pictorial accompaniment:
https://scientology.neocities.org/slideshow.html#2
Leah Remini did a tell all documentary on Scientology.
Scientology and the Aftermath
I watched the first season. After that we cut the cord and didn't follow up. It was very informative.
Many TV series are on location in Canada and states that offer the tax breaks. Walking Dead was going to filmed in Wilmington NC but NC government cut out the tax breaks. I don't have a source to share. My mom's first cousin told me. He lived in Wilmington and his neighbor worked on The Walking Dead film crew. The only positive I see with shows/movies outside of Hollywood is it gives jobs to people in remote or rural areas.