Testify, Takashi Shimizu:

“Hollywood is short of good ideas — across all the genres — and also reluctant to take a chance on a film because if it’s a flop, then they lose a lot of money and are hit hard by the critics,” says Shimizu, who made his U.S. debut with “The Grudge” in 2004, a remake of his “Ju-on,” which was released in Japan a year earlier.

“That’s why when they find a film that has already been a big hit elsewhere, they’re confident it will work again.

“But … if Hollywood becomes reluctant to be creative or take on new ideas purely because of the fear-of-failure factor, then we’ll get to the end of this boom and look back and say there were no good movies.”

The thing is Shimizu’s kind of part of the problem…but hey, what he says is absolutely 100% accurate. A teensy bit more HERE.

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