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"Denzel Washington has said that actors can no longer rely on the studio system for the movies they want to make. The Safe House star told Metro that the decision-making process among the majors has changed along with the ownership model. &amp;quot;Studios are now owned by big corporations, so all the decisions are made in a completely different way. The mid-majors, places like Summit, are like what studios used to be. &amp;quot;The big studios are more interested in their big tent-pole movies and farm out the rest of it and take distribution deals... You can&amp;#039;t rely on the studios, you have to know where to go to find it.&amp;quot; Of the $30 million budget for new movie Flight, he said: &amp;quot;Bob Zemeckis and I took one-tenth of our usual salary but almost 40% of the back-end - so if it hits, ker-ching. If not, we still made the movie we wanted. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s called &amp;#039;showbusiness&amp;#039;. I don&amp;#039;t have a problem with that. Five years ago we might have got $70 million to make it - now they&amp;#039;re looking for Mission: Impossible 6 or Twilight 4. &amp;quot;Studios will take the credit for smaller movies if they get Oscars but I get it, we&amp;#039;re in tough economic times.&amp;quot; Safe House topped the US box office at the weekend with takings of $24 million. &amp;gt; Denzel Washington: &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s more fun to play villains&amp;#039; Watch the Safe House trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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