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.
Obama effect?
Hell YES! No question, just read the comments on the bottom of that website. People are absolutely outraged at Hollywood for fanatically pushing that putz.
I want to see the number of butts in the seats, not the $ ticket sales. They raise ticket prices, it just makes it seem like movies did better.
For the first time in history probably, television is where the more interesting writing and storylines are.
Nah, nothing good on TV either.
Eight years ago was about the last time I attended a movie theater.
You’ll never see that number, because nobody tracks that data.
The closest you’ll get to a “butts in seats” tally is to look at a “per screen average.”
just watched the trailer for THE EQUALIZER movie. think i’ll pass. too attached to the characters from the tv series. there is only 1 robert mccall just like there is only 1 thomas magnum.
Remakes, sequels of sequels, remakes of remakes of remakes, bad acting (very bad), very little to no originality, 3-D (lol), $15 to see a movie, theaters full of loud obnoxious people, theaters full of trash and trash smells.....
Good for them.
Both?
The main reason is a dearth of good movies to go see.
I have been to two movies, Transformers and Captain America, and that is all I saw even remotely worth going to.
The next picture I will definitely see is “Expendables III”.
I haven’t been to the movies since Roger rabbit. Quit Netflix because nothing seemed interesting.
If an occasional movie comes out I might be interested, I download it only.
Obama effect?
No, I don’t think so. I think it’s the “the-movies-are-so-crappy-that-people-don’t-want-to-waste-their-time-and-money” effect.
For one thing, CGI can only go so far in compensating for the lack of story, bad dialog, bad acting, and interminably long and boring fight scenes. And movies permeated through and through with “Progressive” propaganda don’t exactly pluck at the heart strings with poignant story-telling and universal themes. I suspect even the teens are tired of going to grossly over-priced, badly made, sophomoric movies made just for them.
Longmire, The Americans, Fallen Skies, all on right now, are all very well written and entertaining.
Yes I blame Obama for everything!...That sounds refreshing!
Obama and plain old crap spewing out from Hollywood.
So does this mean you're not going to line up to see The Rock as Hercules? Or the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot?
Where are the "affirmative action" cries to demand this one-sided power/influence become more ideologically balanced?
(crickets)
No way. Not even if they get the cast of Superbad to remake CHiPS
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