Hollywood v. Hollywood

When we were doing the Hollywood activity in class, I was comparing my knowlegde of how Hollywood works to what was happening in the classroom. After class I looked up article on Variety about Samuel Jackson getting a role in the next Iron Man. The article stated that he has signed on to a long term deal to play this character in many other films. Now becasue he is such a well know actor in the industry, he was able to sign such a contract and the production company is able to pay what he needs, they are able to keep him busy for a certian period of time. When we were going around the class we had the "actors" themselfs coming up to us. This doesn't happen. The agents would have been making calls to find scripts that the actor would like and a company that he/she could work with. Within the company that I was working, we had to let the actresses pick the story that they wanted to do. This would not happen. Production companys pick the script that they want to shoot, the comes picking the producer and the director, who then pick the cast that they want. They would call the actor's agents to see if they would be interested in adutioning for the moive that they were going to shoot. Our Hollywood was more of a free for all. We were just trying to get things before other people got what we wanted. Even though this is how the real Hollywood is, it would be done over a much more longer period of time.