Arnold Schwarzenegger is no longer the governor of California. He made the announcement via Twitter to all of his followers on Thursday: I’ll be back, to acting! – and that he was back in the film business looking for offers.
Of course, we love Arnold and completely believe that he will be completely successful in anything he does. In three weeks, Arnold is hosting the largest sporting event in the world, The Arnold Sports Festival.
Arnold left the movies and Hollywood for politics in 2003.
Here’s what has changed since 2003, back then:
- Tickets cost 25 percent less.
- Theater attendance was 15 percent higher.
- Only five nominees got a shot at the best picture Oscar.
- “The Matrix” was still being reloaded.
- Michigan wasn’t financing more films than MGM.
- The big action stars were men.
- Angelina Jolie was coming off a genuine romantic comedy (“Life, or Something Like It”).
- Jim Wiatt was a superagent (at the William Morris Agency, which existed).
- Miramax meant Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
- Comcast was a cable company.
- Mark Zuckerberg was 19, and not a good bet for a biopic.
- Jack Valenti ruled at the Motion Picture Association of America.
- Deals got done on the patio at Orso.
- Everybody worried about David Geffen.
- Sylvester Stallone was a has-been.
- Schwarzenegger, who had just starred in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” which had $433.4 million in ticket sales around the world, was a very big draw.
Other than that, it’s just the same old, same old; and we expect with Arnold’s connections, that he’s going to be just fine.