Could it be that, when the price of basics goes up, discretionary spending goes down?
Maybe if they'd just shut up and act, sing or dance, the audiences would return.
Exactly. No tears from me. I boycott Hollywood, and watch the films I want to see, of which there are not many, when they come on TV, or borrow DVDs from friends.
A friend of mine went to see War of the Worlds, and says that the theater he went to showed 10-15 minutes of commercials and previews, and THEN the movie.
From evil, anti-American, mega-narcissist, shallow pseudo-human moron actors & actresses... to the horrific polically correct sewer output of their movies, Hollywood is now on a permanent decline.
Besides, I have a 50 inch screen and popcorn costs 25 cents a bag at my house!
Family drug me along to "War of the Worlds" earlier tonight, despite numerous protests/procrastination! This film is pedestrian cinema (at best). I'd recommended saving your $6.50 (to whomever is even remotely interested in seeing the movie).
"Hollywood in 19 Week Slump"
Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is one streak I hope never stops.
Maybe someone will forge a Conservative Hollywood....
It's fitting, I think.
1) listen to what the market wants, content and distribution wise
2) lower coss of production and distribution so theatre tickets are lower vs.
3) produce movies only for home consumption /download realising that this is where the market is going.
The 4th of July would be an excellent day to declare your independence from Hollywood.
I promise Hollywood that you will make a huge profit.
When this happens, it's a cold day in hell.
Oh, for the days of diing Moguls and the 1970s!. When studio heads would give a truckful of of $$$ to a no-name, up and coming director to direct the movie he wanted!
Instead, with the inception of Political Correctness, we have nickle and dime lawyers and committees directing a lukewarm, stale stable of hacks to make stink-out-loud schlock that offends no one and keeps the "studios" out of lawsuits. While aiming their schlock at the "Prime Demographic" of pimply faced teenagers!
Is it any wonder that my DVD Library contains very few recent films, and is predominantly B&W?
Jack.
The chickens coming home to roost.
There is only one problem with this. It is only taking into consideration one source of revenue. Total income for all we know could be way up if other sources are included like dvd sales, cable and tv, foreign box office etc etc.
Ive not seen any movies nor do I plan to.
I strictly limit my viewing to programs/movies that are pro American 100% of the time.
Actually I think media companies make more than ever these days.
Box office accounts for less and less of total revenues. DVD sales and PPV sales are through the roof.
IMHO, leftist Hollyweirdos make more than ever - someone prove me wrong.
19... 19... 19... I have 19... do I hear 20???
They suck in Hollywood…the leftist pinko scum in Hollywood
They’re really proud that they destroyed our culture…each money vulture
Laughs as he goes to the bank
They give opinions to all their minions
Who believe them when it’s the fans they thank
They suck in Hollywood…they’re so political in Hollywood
They claim compassion that is very phony…it’s all baloney
They covet each other’s wives
It’s T & A they’re grabbing…into backs they’re stabbing
They lead such scandalous lives
They suck in Hollywood…we’ve really heard enough from Hollywood
They play a role and then they’re testifying…but who’s relying
On what these airheads will say
They’re merely acting and fan attracting
Why do people give them the time of day?
They suck in Hollywood…how many breasts are real in Hollywood?
It’s for our planet that they say they’re caring…there’s no ride sharing
They’re in their own limousine
And as I watch them fake it...I'll no longer take it
They’re reading lines in a scene
The central message of Life After Television for the film industry is that the new technologies are targeted directly at Hollywood. Today some 70 percent of the costs of a film go to distribution and advertising. In every industry -- from retailing to insurance -- the key impact of the computer-networking revolution is to collapse the costs of distribution and remove the middlemen. In an information industry such as the movie business, distribution costs will predictably plummet. p 203
Anyone with access to the information highway will be able to distribute a film at a tiny fraction of current costs. Moreover, webs of glass and light will free the producer from the burden of creating a product that can attract miscellaneous audiences to theaters. Instead producers will be able to reach equally large but more specialized audiences dispersed around the globe. Rather than making lowest-common-denominator appeals to the masses, film-makers will be able to appeal to the special interests, ambitions, and curiosities of individuals anywhere, anytime. p 204
Just as digital desktop publishing equipment unleashed thousands of new text publishing companies, so the new digital desktop video publishing will unleash thousands of new filmmakers. The video business will increasingly resemble not the current film business, in which output is a hundred or so movies a year, but the book business, in which some 55,000 new hardcover titles are published annually in the U.S. alone. After all, scores of thousands of screenplays are already written every year. In the next decade, thousands of screenwriters will be able to make and distribute their own films. p 204