In The Running Man the future is depicted as an authoritarian police state with a broken economy. When our man Richards (Schwarzenegger) faces airport security and has no travel pass, he rummages through his bag until a line of anxious tourists forms behind him. "We got a plane to catch!" one yells, so the guard lets [...]
economics
Capitalising off the Studio System
onNow that I've made the case that even in this economy filmmakers are still incredibly well off, I thought I'd go a bit further... no, more like jump off a cliff, and make the case that because it's so easy to make films, it's possible to make money (hopefully profit) at the cost of the [...]