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Box-Office Slump: Hollywood Facing Worst Summer in Eight Years (Obama effect?)
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 07/23/2014 | Pamela McClintock

Posted on 07/23/2014 10:23:50 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

Less than six weeks before Labor Day, hopes for recovery at the North American summer box office have evaporated. The season is expected to finish down 15 to 20 percent compared with 2013, the worst year-over-year decline in three decades, and revenue will struggle to crack $4 billion, which hasn't happened in eight years. As a result, analysts predict that the full year is facing a deficit of 4 to 5 percent.


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To: Zathras

If you’re streaming Hollywood content on Roku, the former are getting a royalty.


41 posted on 07/23/2014 10:46:56 AM PDT by Borges
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

They use my money to promote leftist causes and candidates.

Until that stops, I will keep visiting my friendly neighborhood torrent site.


42 posted on 07/23/2014 10:47:21 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: George from New England

You nailed it! People don’t want to keep seeing all of the fruits being thrown at them on the TV or at the movies.


43 posted on 07/23/2014 10:47:21 AM PDT by mothball
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To: MplsSteve

Let me correct that — the price of the ticket isn’t really high, it’s the stupidly large amounts of money being paid to the people starring in the movies (”celebrities”) and to the unionized labor making the movies.


44 posted on 07/23/2014 10:48:22 AM PDT by USNA74
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To: jsanders2001

Join the club of penny-watchers this summer. There’s a lot of that belt tightening going on, with the price of food, gas and utilities going through the roof this summer.


45 posted on 07/23/2014 10:48:41 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: dfwgator
They make more money on movies overseas now than from the US.

This is why you'll never see a film that shows China in a bad light. It's too big a market.

46 posted on 07/23/2014 10:53:49 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: George from New England
How’s that ‘gay every ten minutes’ working out ??!

It can't be helping. And even if the character in the movie or on the TV show isn't gay, it is obvious he is played by one. My wife probably tires of my gaydar constantly going off while we watch TV. I'm constantly saying stuff like "Jeez, where'd they get this effeminate guy to play this part?" I am not surprised that lots of actors are gay. The acting profession has attracted homosexuals since the time of Greece and Rome. But in the golden age of Hollywood, the actors didn't SCREAM their gayness in every scene. I was watching a Rock Hudson movie recently. Yeah, we know he was gay and he died of AIDS; but he comes off very manly in most of his roles. Women loved him on the screen.

Most of my entertainment dollars are spent on Blu-rays and DVDs of better movies from a better time.

47 posted on 07/23/2014 10:53:50 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: jalisco555

Even in the 30s, Hollywood was afraid to make movies that were overtly anti-Nazi, because their films were still shown in Germany.


48 posted on 07/23/2014 10:55:54 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I just heard on the X22 Report that amusement parks are being hit hard. I can't imagine a lot of people could even imagine a day at the amusement park right now. It's a hit to the pocketbook in regular times. I can't even imagine what it's going for now---
49 posted on 07/23/2014 10:57:31 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: riri

Yep, standing in line on a hot summer day is not my idea of fun.


50 posted on 07/23/2014 10:58:13 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

There’s a story of a scene in one late 30s film depicting a German soldier in a bad light and Louis B Mayer calling the director in to his office and saying “What do you think you’re doing? We’re not making hate films here. We have theaters in Germany.”


51 posted on 07/23/2014 10:58:14 AM PDT by Borges
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I am looking forward to The Equalizer movie coming out in September.


52 posted on 07/23/2014 11:00:15 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: riri

They have some terrible sounding movies out there, things I wouldn’t watch for free.


53 posted on 07/23/2014 11:00:26 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I did go see Budapest Hotel with my daughter a few months ago, I think before that I went and saw the Hunger Games.

Aside from, maybe two movies a year, that I watch Indie movies on Netflix. I have zero tolerance for the 9 million decibel, blow them up, special effects crap Hollywood churns out.

54 posted on 07/23/2014 11:00:31 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“(Obama effect?)”?
No, how about horrible movies?


55 posted on 07/23/2014 11:01:07 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

All the books you can read, ten at a time, on Kindle for $10.00 a month. And there’s some wheat in all the chaff.
Screw Hollywood.


56 posted on 07/23/2014 11:02:19 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: riri

season passes to amusement parks cost only a little more than a single ticket

do they hope people only come two or three times a year when they buy a season pass?


57 posted on 07/23/2014 11:04:07 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Why do some people blame Obama for everything. Poor movie ticket sales? Obamas fault. Raining outside? Obamas fault. Maybe, just maybe, this years movies are awful and not worth 12$ a ticket.


58 posted on 07/23/2014 11:05:29 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: SeekAndFind

The first weekend the new film played on over a thousand screens, it made 4 million.

For comparative purposes, the first weekend his previous film played on over a thousand screens, it made 6 million.

So far, the new film is doing 67% of the business his first film did.

Another number you need to look at to gauge how it’s doing: the new film only dropped 30% last weekend. That’s perfectly respectable and demonstrates that it’s still doing business.

The new film has been in the theaters for 4 weeks. So far, it’s made a total of 11.6 million.

His 2012 film played in theaters for 13 weeks and made 33.4 million.

Since the film is no longer building, my guess is it won’t do the big number the first film did. But that isn’t to say it won’t be profitable. Just not as profitable as the first one.


59 posted on 07/23/2014 11:06:48 AM PDT by Blue Ink
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To: dfwgator
Even in the 30s, Hollywood was afraid to make movies that were overtly anti-Nazi, because their films were still shown in Germany.

Yes, I've read about that. The more things change...

60 posted on 07/23/2014 11:07:25 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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