Posted on 08/26/2017 10:40:49 AM PDT by simpson96
Mother Nature certainly isn't helping the dramatic downturn at the August box office, where revenue for the weekend could hit its lowest level in more than 15 years, in addition to being down nearly 50 percent from the same frame last year.
Hurricane Harvey has prompted theater closures in Corpus Christi and other locales along the Texas Gulf Coast. Inland, numerous cinemas have also shuttered in Houston.
Even without the storm, none of the weekend's new offerings were expected to earn more than $5 million, and that's proving to be the case.
Animated family film Leap!, from Harvey Weinstein's shop, is projected to do the best, earning an estimated $1.6 million Friday for a projected $4.8 million-$5 million debut from 2,575 theaters for a third-place finish behind holdovers The Hitman's Bodyguard ($9 million) and Annabelle: Creation ($7.5 million), respectively. Hitman's Bodyguard will join only a short list of films to ever win a weekend with less than $10 million, at least in modern times.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
23 years and counting
There is one of those rare movies arriving at theaters this weekend that I am interested in seeing: All Saints. Here is a review from Plugged In Online:
http://www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/all-saints-2017
I’m in Houston and riding out the storm. Some family in the area evacuated. We rarely go to the theaters mainly due to the content not matching our values.
The hurricane is not playing a role in our movie attendance.
The one movie I am really looking forward to seeing on the big screen this year is Genesis 3D:
https://genesismovie.com/trailers/
It’s coming to theaters nationwide on November 13.
No, I'm not saying this. I'm saying that this isn't the reason Hollywood is hurting.
The reason Hollywood is hurting is because of crappy movies, not politics. The biggest movie of the year was Beauty and the Beast starring leftist feminist Emma Watson. The biggest TV show right now is Game of Thrones starring leftist feminist Emilia Clarke and featuring no shortage of nudity, straight sex, gay sex, graphic violence violence and based on the novels by MASSIVE Hillary supporter George R.R. Martin and full of plenty of obvious anti-conservative themes.
So, I'm not saying that Hollywood isn't making liberal movies. They are and always have. I'm saying that this isn't the reason people are avoiding them.
If they were good, people would go see them. They're not.
Agreed.
Aunt, but, yeah, overrated.
Oh goodie, Hollyweird finally noticed that real Americans hate them.
That’s me on the left...
They almost all do, but that's only part of it. Hollywood is facing a perfect storm of converging trends which all keep people out of theaters. (1) As you point out, their product mostly sucks. (2) Many people have large TVs with great sound systems. Why pay for a movie in a theater that you can see at your home theater in six months? (3) People are used to doing their shopping while staying at home, and they like it. Amazon, & etc., have made us lazy. Why bother going to some unpleasant mall, fighting traffic and looking for a parking place, when you can stay at home and be just as entertained. (4) The popcorn at theaters tastes lousy, unlike the days when it tasted good. The nachos and whatever else they sell are better and cheaper at the 7/11, if you want to eat junk. If you're going to eat bad food, why not stay at home and order a pizza from Dominoes; it's cheaper and better.
I don't want to be entirely negative, so I'll say there are some recent movies that I have liked: Sicario (Ahora, van a conocer a dios), Queen of Katwe, and The Lost City of Z, with the best version of Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe #2, you will ever hear.
Is that because of increased attendance or increased prices?
When I was younger, all a movie had to have was violence, and hot chicks. These days, all of the recent movies I have seen have been let downs.
Rehashed copies of older movies, playing out the same scripts, except more PC and profane than ever! I am sick of the ultra-tough woman who can beat up men crap. Unless you are Wonder Woman, that ain’t happening.
I long for a good movie, I have been to maybe 3 movies over the last year and don’t miss it at all.
So why are they blaming it on the storm?
I pass our multi plex one several times a week, few cars there during peak viewing times.
Try putting on something people will watch. You BOTCHED the TARZAN movie BIG TIME. First time I’d been to an actual movie since the last release of a Star Wars Movie.
I am told that sequels and remakes are more common because movies cost so much to make these days. It's easier to sell banks and investors on a project that has a track record, like a sequel, than some original concept.
Fair enough. I saw it some time in the late 90s or early 2000s as an adult, so slightly different frames of reference there :)
One of the multiplexes by us shows the old movies once a week just to fill up the seats. We recently saw Spaceballs for old times sake and the place was packed. Most of the new crap, not so much.
#1 I would to see her in any film.....
#72 Bo Derek made the last Tarzan movie I saw er... watchable.
Probably was, graphics were great improvement, but story so screwed up it was just bits and pieces of the books, with Jane having lived her life in Africa. Which any Tarzan reader knows is not true, nor that the Greystokes were storm wrecked there. More about OPAR, and all were human, which is not in Burroughs original books, I’ve got the whole set stored in the attic. Along with his Venus & Martin series.
China is buying out Hollywood anyhow.
I hardly watch movies, TV shows anymore. Think I may watch 3 movies a month and that’s probably a high number.
This is because there is very little originality coning out of Hollywood these days.
Furthermore, I am sick of lectured to by spoiled rotten, hypocritical millionaires that do not practice what they preach.
Finally, all the movies, shows, look and sound the same. You really see it in the Marvel and DC Comics movies. I am done with those movies.
The last garbage show I watched, that was actually some what interesting was Breaking Bad. Prior too that and since very little.
Haha!
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