Posted on 09/12/2014 11:28:52 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
When you combine Variety's story about a 19% drop in entertainment industry jobs, and The Hollywood Reporter's story about the 2014 box office already being written off as a "disaster," things look pretty glum in the business of show. And probably for good reason.
No one expected Summer 2014 to tank. No one. Everyone's saying "wait till next year," but this year there was a Spider-Man, some X-Men, a bunch of Apes, more Transformers, ..., this past Labor Day weekend was the worst since the post- 9/11 Labor Day weekend.
No one knows why. No one can explain it. And that has everyone worried.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
NO JOBS! NO MONEY! NO DISPOSABLE INCOME!...............
Bush’s fault...
Perhaps the cotton-headed actors shouldn't have worked so hard to destroy Capitalism.
People are out of work and can't afford to pay $11 to see a movie that says, “Bad American! See how you are ruining everything by clinging to your morality and reality. Shame, Shame!!!!”
Most big budget films are now geared to the overseas market. They are designed to be easy to subtitle.
XMen II was a sequel to a remake of a series.
Planet of the Apes was a sequel to a remake of a remake of a really bad series.
Transformers was the 3rd sequel in a series that only should have had one movie in it.
Am I the only one seeing a pattern, here?
That pretty much describes me except that I don't care for Mad Men. Hollywood makes very little stuff that looks interesting to me.
Technology - why pay $14 for ONE movie when you can watch it many times for $7 On Demand or $5/month watch many movies on Netflix/HULU etc and from the “comfort” of your own smart phone? Ditto for music biz with Pandora and iHeart etc.
A smart phone costs ~$50 a month so you gotta cut some where.
Not at all! Their product SUCKS! Add to that the bad attitude and entitlement mentality of so many of the ‘stars’ and you get a really bad year at the old box office. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of hypocrites.
I’m thinking that a broke and unemployed Hollywood isn’t an altogether *bad* thing.
“Spider-Man, some X-Men, a bunch of Apes, more Transformers, “
Entertainment for 12 year old boys
IMO it's a lack of disposable time and disposable income, all thanks to the Obamaconomy. That, and an unwillingness of conservatives to pay for insults directed at them over the movie screen.
“drop of films aimed at those grown-ups who don’t think Woody Allen hangs the moon”
What does this even mean?
Samsung. Blu-ray. Netflix. Re-hashed content. Urban culture taking over movie theaters. What's to explain?
The big movies will still be big, but it is the medium and smaller movies that will take the brunt of people watching fewer movies because the economy stinks.
It’s an old expression - if you admire someone, you think they “hung the moon.”
I don’t understand the problem. Hollywood has spent several decades alienating one half of its potential audience through political statements and involvement. Now that inflation is taking people’s money and the fear of losing one’s job is rampant people aren’t going to fork over the extra cash to see a movie.
I could have sworn that Hollywood’s plan was to shrink the industry. Seems crazy, but that’s just me.
After wasting my money going to the theater, I will have forgotten what the plot of the CGI-ladened movie was about before I lose the taste of the overpriced buttered popcorn.
I will go see Atlas Shrugged and not worry.
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