I wish there was a connection between hollywoods recent trouble with finding money for thier upcoming projects and thier political bias. Most banks have had to tighten up the rules on lending money and Hollywood Studios are finding it more difficult to find new money. The poor showing of a lot of the more politically positioned films have put a few studios in positions where they will have to use more of thier own money due to outside sources for money drying up. I can only hope this will force them to be more circumspect when deciding to greenlight upcoming films. I can only hope that the upcoming Oliver Stone hack job on President Bush crashes and dies at the box office but there is a good chance that because of his past box office performance he will have a good opening weekend. I do not think it will sustain, but that is only my opinion.

Hollywood is nothing if not a money making factory. Eventually the bottom line will make it impossible for the trash that impersonates as movies to continue being made. 

a space based laser and surgically remove Hollywood, Burkeley, and San Francisco...is that to much to ask for?

"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."

Who can deny Breitbart? But here is another problem with Hollywood: It seem that Hollywood can not make a movie about a real and believable man with redeeming virtues. Look at the entire list of movies above and search your mind for releases of movies ever since outing homosexuals became in.

Most male roles are patently ridiculous (Batman, Indiana Jones, and similar such stuff), or rely upon special effects (Prince Caspian, etc.) that separate it from the real world that the rest of us walk in.

Maybe there are a few exceptions (i.e., non-silly movies with good male roles) that prove the rule, but I suspect that even they have some disqualifying flaws or gaps. The problem seems to be that one way or another there is always something queer about Hollywood movies nowadays.

There are no real and believable women with redeeming virtues in Hollywood nowadays either, but that is a different and also older story.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

I have suggested this before, but Hollywood was built by patriots and hard working Americans. Who is now there that can hold a candle to the great actors and personalities of yesterday?  Many of them must be rolling in their graves. Now they are embarrassing shameful uneducated idiots who claim moral authority at every turn, while having none.

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

What a great article and thanks for sharing. I worked in the entertainment industry and as a registered Republican/conservative, I had to watch my P's and Q's, not get into political discussions and pretty much operate as if I was Anne Frank in the attic.

But seriously, they will NOT accept conservative or right leaning material. I've seen it happen and even good work gets the cold shoulder b/c it may be right leaning or Pro American.  But as you've pointed out, lefty films don't make money. And it's hurting the industry, it's unbalanced and unchecked. As you will see that Deutsche Bank just pulled away from financing Paramount.  Less movies are getting made every year and more of them are making less money. 

And b/c of all of this, the economy in Hollywood is getting worse as w/ the job market.  I'm not talking about the muckety mucks.  I'm mean the lowly assistants, production people and lower tier executives who can barely pay their rent. But hey, they can tell people they work in Hollywood.

Mr.L

This article writes about the few openly conservative players in Hollywood. The only one who I am familiar with is Dennis Miller. Dennis Miller is a famous comedian who turned conservative after 9/11. Dennis Miller now has a radio talk show and is also a frequent guest on "the O'Reilly Factor" on Fox news. I have heard Miller talk about how he was ostracized by much of Hollywood after he became a conservative. He says that the liberals in Hollywood are clearly intolerant of opposing political view-points. He says that conservatives must remain "in the closet" least they lose their chance of getting lucrative contracts and advancing in Hollywood.

I have also noticed a similar type of bullying on the Yahoo Answers web-site. This is a web-site where you can ask and answer questions on a variety of topics in any of about a hundred categories. I usually participate in the categories of politics & elections, religion & spirituality, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual &transgendered and global warming. I have had scores of questions and answers reported and removed and over a dozen accounts suspended. The reasons are usually because I am critical of "gay pride", atheism, and Barack Obama. My questions and answers are usually thoughtful, reasoned, non confrontational and non insulting. However, because of my opinion, my answers often get reported and removed and eventually my account gets suspended. Apparently, I am not the only one that this is happening to, because I notice that a majority of people who post in the "religion and spirituality" category are atheists, witches, and followers of pagan religions. Often they make very hateful, intolerance comments about Christianity. I believe that Christians are being intimidated by having their questions and answers removed and their accounts suspended, just like me. After a while they just give up, and the atheists have taken over. The same thing happens in the "LGBT" category if you are critical of celebrating homosexuality, and in the political & elections category if you are critical of Obama. So far, the global warming enthusiasts seem to be more tolerant of differing views.

Just like the article in the Washington Times says, I find liberals, homosexuals and atheists to be very intolerant of opposing views. There are many examples of liberals who are actively stifling free speech when they disagree. I have written about some of these in previous articles. This is a far cry from the liberals of the 60s who said " I may disagree with what you say, but I defend your right to say it". Ben Stein's movie "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed" is another example of liberal bullying by the Universities.

I mention this bullying on Yahoo Answers, because I think it is exemplary of what is happening in Hollywood and on college campusses. For example, you see many hateful bumper stickers on automobiles mocking and insulting President Bush, but you rarely, if ever, see bumper stickers praising Bush or mocking Obama. People dare not affix conservative bumper stickers, lest they risk vandalism to their car, yet liberals often go ever-the-top, calling for Bush's conviction and impeachment and they are widely accepted. Students at a Georgia university, recently protested to have Supreme Court Justice, Clarance Thomas, disinvited from speaking at their commencement hearing. It has been reported that over 80% of all speakers invited to speak at University commencement ceremonies this year were liberal. Often conservative speakers on University campuses get booed, heckled or bullied out of appearing in the first place.

Most people, especially conservatives, just want to get on with their work or their studies without getting hassled. They maintain a low profile, so as not to attract the ire of pacifists, gay activists, atheists, and believers in man-made global warming. Those activist groups may be small in number, but they are quite vocal, offensive, intimidating, aggressive and "in-your-face". Most sane people don't want to get into a confrontation with these "loons", so they either join them or keep their mouth shut. As a result, it appears that everyone is on their side and more people join them, just to fit in with what seems to be popular on college campusses, Hollywood and most major cities".

Yes Hollywood is very liberal, but If someone can come up with the financing for a conservative type movie, no one is saying they can't make these movies

Flags of our Fathers and The Passion of the Christ, both were quite successful

Some folks can dish it out but cannot take it

This begs a very simple question. If America doesn't like the politics of Hollywood, why is it that Americans consistently vote for Hollywood's picks of political candidates? This is perhaps the greatest single irony today in this country.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31

For all the hub bub of War Inc and that idiot John Douchack I looked it up.  $515,000.  And was released on DVD July 1.  Nice.

 Link: http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/WARNC.php

Amazing.