content: Shill detected?  Look how many movie stars there used to be and look now  Shitty measure of it. The number of movie stars decreasing is more indicative of a change in the industry than anything else  The industry IS dying.  And so be it. Hollywood greed has gone on long enough. And piracy is not it's downfall.   It is a general shift in how we consume media.  The films with budgets from $10 million to $20 million are not being made anymore.  Consider the fact that with the help of CGI, you don't need as large of budget anymore