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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5035138" data-attributes="member: 4720">Perhaps I have my "Negative Nancy" hat on today, but I see three possible outcomes.1) He turns in Hollywood quality on a fraction of the budget, something Bollywood has been flirting with for a while, but no one cares, because they are foreign.  If this occurs, he will be burned in effigy by the Hollywood establishment, given no marketing, and his movie will open on, at most, 5 screens.  He will more than make back his investment more times over than most blockbusters, but be considered a box office flop and be next seen doing Japanese commercials with RDJ and Jude Law.2) He goes Hollywood fo' realz, and everyone involved turns in Hollywood standard work for Hollywood standard pay and spends the rest of their Hollywood standard time rolling around in piles of money like the standard Hollywood scene out of Indecent Proposal.  The movie will gross a hojillion dollars, but the minute anyone looks at a financial report, it will appear that the film lost money so that his material can be handed over to Michael Bay for sequels.3) In an effort to prevent outcome #1, he will be inundated hourly with illicit narcotics, loose women, and high quality alcohol.  This one is unpredictable in outcome, because those events could have both positive and negative impacts on film quality and his Hollywood standing.Sorry, Umbran, but any honest belief that time, money, and quality are correlated in Hollywood is a masterful self delusion.</blockquote>

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