Slate has an interesting article giving an overview of How To Finance a Hollywood Blockbuster. It seems that, due to tax regulations in other countries, movie studios can use feats of financial legerdemain to almost entirely offset the costs of big budget movies, which, with similar feats of financial legerdemain, almost always 'lose' money for the studio. After reading this article, you'll know why we always get crappy summer blockbusters, SF or otherwise, and why its more difficult to get a modest budget movie made. So the answer is:

Film Consider Phlebas! That would rule. And it's budget would have to be huge.

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Posted by JP Frantz at Tuesday April 26, 2005 at 9:28 AM
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