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2006 TO BE A MAKE OR BREAK YEAR FOR HOLLYWOOD
Ad Age.com ^
| 1/24/06
| T.L. Stanley
Posted on 01/24/2006 12:38:35 PM PST by Millee
This is a make-or-break year for Hollywood.
One down year is an anomaly, but two could be a trend, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office-tracking firm Exhibitor Relations Co. This year is really a turning point.
Keenly aware of the 7% drop in movie attendance in 2005, studio executives are pinning their hopes on a better slate of films to draw consumers back to the multiplex. But industry watchers say the business has more far-reaching problems that a few good films cant necessarily fix as in-control consumers turn to entertainment alternatives like Netflix, the Internet and on-demand programming.
Box office down With box office down and costs up -- the average Hollywood film now costs about $65 million to produce and another $35 million for prints and advertisingthis could well be a watershed year as executives are forced to rethink some of the traditional tenets of the business. Among them: cinemas getting first crack at releases; top acting talent getting sweetheart deals; and rethinking the hallowed concept of tent-pole movies.
Moreover, pundits predict that studio marketing dollars will continue to migrate away from TV and toward the Internet, grassroots events and guerrilla marketing.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2006; boxoffice; hollywood
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To: PaulaB
Have you seen "Saw"? We saw Saw a few weeks ago, and it was a lot better than I would have thought. Really kept your interest.
SD
To: PaulaB
I can't stand hack and slash, but I hate the wierd, supernatural ones worse, especially if they involve kids. I guess I'm a big chicken.
I like action/adventure, comedy and romance. I especially like movies that do it all -- like The Mummy or The Mask of Zorro.
When my daughter gets a bit older, I hope to have a buddy for chick flicks. The boys outnumber us 4:2, so we don't get a lot of say.
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:56:48 PM PST
by
Chanticleer
(May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
To: SoothingDave
Yes I loved Saw and can't wait to see Saw 2
83
posted on
01/24/2006 1:56:52 PM PST
by
PaulaB
(How about never? Is never good for you?)
To: PaulaB
I was wrong, it's Owen Wilson. But look:
![](http://images-partners.google.com/images?q=tbn:a4xo-To5-uDArM:www.askmen.com/men/entertainment_150/pictures_150/owen_wilson/owen_wilson_150.jpg)
Amazing, isn't it??
84
posted on
01/24/2006 1:57:34 PM PST
by
Millee
(I've got FRiends in low places...)
To: PaulaB
I love scary movies!
It's fun to watch and make fun of the stupid people.
85
posted on
01/24/2006 1:57:47 PM PST
by
baker_girl
(Learn the rules so you know how to break them.)
To: Chanticleer
I don't do demon stuff
I draw the line at the spiritual realm due to I believe it really happens
but give me a big physco with a mask and a chain saw
trying to kill the whole sorority
:P
86
posted on
01/24/2006 1:59:03 PM PST
by
PaulaB
(How about never? Is never good for you?)
To: baker_girl
Me too
LOL
"Run kid run..no don't look back he's coming"
87
posted on
01/24/2006 2:00:23 PM PST
by
PaulaB
(How about never? Is never good for you?)
To: Millee
88
posted on
01/24/2006 2:02:02 PM PST
by
PaulaB
(How about never? Is never good for you?)
To: PaulaB
My absolute favorite is when they forget how to drive their own vehicles.
89
posted on
01/24/2006 2:03:30 PM PST
by
baker_girl
(Learn the rules so you know how to break them.)
To: PaulaB
90
posted on
01/24/2006 2:03:44 PM PST
by
EX52D
(They say that anger is just love disappointed...)
To: EX52D
Haven't seen that yet
also cant wait to see "Wolf creek"
About those backpackers in Australia
91
posted on
01/24/2006 2:07:09 PM PST
by
PaulaB
(How about never? Is never good for you?)
To: baker_girl
Don't sit there and scream...START THE CAR!!!
92
posted on
01/24/2006 2:07:45 PM PST
by
PaulaB
(How about never? Is never good for you?)
To: najida
I recommend "Steel Magnolias" as a first class tearjerker supreme. Funny as hell and you'll bawl your eyes out. Though a man I am a big cry baby.
To: PaulaB
I thought this one was funny/creepy.
94
posted on
01/24/2006 2:09:09 PM PST
by
Millee
(I've got FRiends in low places...)
To: PaulaB
I know...PUSH THE GAS,LOCK THE DOOR!
95
posted on
01/24/2006 2:12:58 PM PST
by
baker_girl
(Learn the rules so you know how to break them.)
To: Millee
X3. Pirates of the Csrribean 2. Ultraviolet. Ghost Rider.
There will be more I want to see in the theater than there was last year by exactly one movie.
Maybe after Hollywood collapses we can move the US movie making complex to Austin, TX.
96
posted on
01/24/2006 2:18:23 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: Dead Corpse
Maybe after Hollywood collapses we can move the US movie making complex to Austin, TXAustin Texas???...hmmmmm...now there's a bastion of conservatism... ;)
To: PaulaB
You're not princess I thought you were.
To: Stand Watch Listen
It's a bit closer to the middle than Hollywood ever was. It's also surrounded by a big ol' Red State.
99
posted on
01/24/2006 2:41:08 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
To: PaulaB; SoothingDave
Don't mean to get on my soapbox but movies like Saw hack me off when they put the video covers in the stores. Can you imagine the fear of a child when they walk by and see this next to "Sammy the Cute Cat" in the New Relase section?
(actually, posting the video cover may get me banned so I better not)
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