Family films will always make more money because parents have to go to the movies with their kids. As opposed to teens or adults going by themselves. It’s stating the obvious. As for violent films not making money ‘Saw IV’ made a lot this last weekend. If you cede the marketplace to anti-social teenagers you’ll get what you (don’t) pay for.
There have been some rumblings about the Amerikka-hating genre really being made for the overseas market.
That’s what was being said about “Syriana.”
Every now and then someone takes time to mention the fact that Hollywood is our most successful export and worst ambassador.
Ask a Sumatran peasant why he thinks Americans are all a bunch of gun-waving, sex-crazed psycho a**holes, he’ll tell you he saw it in the movies.
Not quite true. You’re going strictly by the term “family” or “children’s”. It holds true for every “rating” - PG makes more in real $$$ and in ATTENDENCE (a # NEVER used by Hollywood) than R, etc.
It is also a comparison of eras. When disgusting displays were not allowed by common decency, movies were in real attendence more popular. There was some decline with TV, but a massive % decline after “the Code” was dropped and “the ratings system” was adopted - in the ‘60s.
It’s not as simple as “parents have to go with kids”. How many families and whole groups of relatives or friends go together whether they “have to” or not?
Why are you hijacking this thread?