Top Selling: Dead Poets Society
): Nothing sadder than profiting off death.
): Nothing sadder than profiting off death.
So if you are factoring the actors death into your budget when creating the movie you're either a total idiot or willing to predict:
- An instant-seamless distribution system, aka the internet
- Your company will be around 25-50 years from now
- Robin Williams will become an immensely popular actor
- This movie will be so good lots of people will want to watch it in 25 years
Edit:
I can see this being more likely in the music industry as I think people are much more likely to go back and listen to an old album: they see an artist die, they think, "I used to love that band" and they buy the album. With movies, until the digital era arrived, I don't think people did that as much.
By your logic, I'm just as guilty. I'm supply the demand, happily. That profit doesn't exist if I don't hand it over.
Your logic is wrong (worse than that in fact, it's anti-life). Taken to its proper conclusion, you could just about never watch a movie again, for there will almost always be something tragic or sensational occurring at any given time with someone in every movie. Robin Williams is in rehab and in the news? Oops, can't watch his movies. Jodie Foster comes out as gay? Oops, can't watch her movies until the headlines go away. Angelina Jolie adopts an African child, oops, can't watch her movies until the headlines clear, that would be giving the studios a profit off of something beautiful and that's wrong /s