Hollywood’s ‘Legacy Movie' Business Under Siege

Breitbart ^ | 26 Mar 2017 | staff report

[fr_freak]

If you like a good old fashioned zombie movie, I recommend “Train to Busan”

[Sans-Culotte]

I have hundreds of Blu-rays and DVDs of movies and TV shows, very few of which were made in recent years. I had a 3-month free preview of several movie channels when I switched to DISH Network and the start of thew year (Starz, Showtime, Cinemax, et al); and I never saw anything worth watching. The last full-length movie I watched was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a type of movie that today's movie industry could never pull off (at best they'd do a flaccid remake). The manliness of the John Wayne character would be impossible to achieve amongst the current crop of Hollywood dandies. The only channel I watch regularly is TCM. The next movie my wife and I intend to go to is the TCM presentation of Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Hollywood jumped the shark decades ago.

[ClearBlueSky]

What you said + the convenience'/comfort factor of waiting to see a film at home. Why fight traffic, parking and overpay for snacks AND worry about nutcases sitting around you? People are rude, talk on cellphones, talk out loud and then there's the increasing chance of REAL dangerous people in there with you! Film to DVD has killed the theatres, just as internet shopping has made comfort and convenience the deciding factor on where to spend your time and money.
Then there's the dreck factor of most films. If it's gonna stink, better to spend $12 on a DVD than $$$ taking the family to a theatre.

[Mears]

“No one wants to spend $12 for a small coke and small popcorn that cost the theater 75 cents to make.”

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Then don’t buy them.

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[Nero Germanicus]

2017 Total Lifetime Gross Receipts (To Date)
Beauty and the Beast: $317 miilion domestic/$375 million foreign=$691 M
Logan: $206 million domestic/$364 million foreign=$565,000,000
Lego Batman Movie: $171 million domestic/$121 foreign=$292,000,000
Get Out: $147 million domestic/$7 million foreign=$154,000,000
Split: $137 million domestic/$128 million foreign=$265,000,000
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2017&p=.htm

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In reading this post I thought I was reading about myself! Till I saw your name.
I got hundreds of OLD GOOD movies! Why waste time watching modern trash.

[Antoninus]

Korea is now making both better movies and better TV than the U.S.

That is absolutely true. My family has consumed more Korean TV than US TV by a factor of about 20 over the past three years--and we have zero Korean heritage. Their stuff is just that good.

[Trillian]

We have tons of old movies. A whole room full of dvds of everyone’s favorites.

[Jeff Chandler]

Did you ever see the remake of True Grit? Jeff Bridges did a fine job of following in Wayne’s footprints.

[cicero2k]

Public Library. Commercial TV.

[central_va]

TCM or nothing.

[txrefugee]

We are retired and can’t afford movies, so we watch the great old films on TV. We watch no network shows because the comedies aren’t funny and the dramas are poorly done, with the rape and murder of women the repetitious plot in 80% of them...hardly an entertaining subject except to woman haters.

[Sans-Culotte]

Did you ever see the remake of True Grit? Jeff Bridges did a fine job of following in Wayne’s footprints.

I did not prefer the remake to the original, but, yes, Jeff Bridges acquitted himself well in it. Jeff Bridges sort of straddles the old Hollywood era and the new. He's been in several good films in his career.

[x]

No one wants to spend $15 for a movie ticket.

By this point most of Hollywood's money shouldn't be coming from theaters but from television, DVD, and streaming.

If they're just counting on cinema receipts they won't be in business much longer.

[kaehurowing]

If you like a good old fashioned zombie movie, I recommend “Train to Busan”

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I kept on waiting for the high school baseball team to bust out their bats on the zombies, but it never happened.

[drewh]

analyists saying a lot of big budget summer flops coming up. DC limited the budget on Wonder Woman to ‘only’ 100 mil

[karnage]

Pretty much sums it up.

[longtermmemmory]

I can’t believe feminist nutcase was selected for beauty and the beast. she is not a beauty. they have the story 100% wrong. Then they toss poofy propaganda on top.

[kaehurowing]

That is absolutely true. My family has consumed more Korean TV than US TV by a factor of about 20 over the past three years—and we have zero Korean heritage. Their stuff is just that good.

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Yep, Descendants of the Sun, Goblin, Legend of the Blue Sea (Mermaid), and Dr. Crush in the past year were all excellent. Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim was not bad. Checking out Saimdang and Rebel now. Yoon Kyun Sang was excellent as Moo Hyul in Six Flying Dragons, am hoping to see that again in Rebel.

[longtermmemmory]

there are no more actor or actresses. They are just mannequins propped up in specific positions so editing can slice and dice a propaganda vision.

it is all “save the cat”