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"Judd Apatow has said that he is upset at the shutting down of independent divisions of major studios and the loss of humanity in modern films. Speaking at the UK press conference for Funny People, the director admitted that he made his &amp;quot;passion project&amp;quot; now because it was his responsibility to do so while he had the chance. Apatow explained: &amp;quot;I think movies without superheroes and action and thrills and new forms of 3-D and being based on toys are really dying out. They&amp;#039;re shutting down a lot of the indie divisions in a lot of the major studios and people are disappearing from movies. &amp;quot;Normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies. I&amp;#039;m a big superhero fan and I go to all those movies, but I need some Welcome To The Dollhouses in my life. People want to reach the most people and they go to whatever the lowest, simplest common denominator is.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Every once in a while it breaks down because someone does something great like Slumdog Millionaire, and you go, &amp;#039;All your rules are s**t, they don&amp;#039;t mean anything&amp;#039;. Then Little Miss Sunshine is a giant hit. &amp;quot;So hopefully enough of those movies get made, but there&amp;#039;s a lot less money being invested in making those movies and it&amp;#039;s really bad for cinema. You&amp;#039;ll hear about a lot less movies because there isn&amp;#039;t a Paramount Vantage or Warner Independent. &amp;quot;All those divisions that provided so many great movies don&amp;#039;t exist anymore. You&amp;#039;ve got a lot more movies that cost $180m (\u00C2\u00A3110m) to make, but that $80m could have made ten other independent movies. Just as a fan it saddens me.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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