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    25-Nov-93 23:30:52
Sb: #68324-ILM
Fm: John Tissavary 71054,15
To: Aaron Weintraub 70222,557
Fortunately there aren't that many films shot for $200 million. Most are in the 8-16 million dollar range. The bottom line is the bottom line. Hollywood has been around long enough to know what works for them, and as long as they can make money doing it a certain way, that's the way it'll be. If all of a sudden small budget movies start making bucks, you can bet the larger production companies will make "smaller" films. Film is a public and popular art. It requires a great deal of public patronage to make a movie successful, and nobody make commercial scale movies just for the fun of it, "sucking for bucks" is an inalienable part of the art.