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Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | June 12, 2013 | Paul Bond

Posted on 06/13/2013 7:07:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

George Lucas echoed Spielberg's sentiments at an event touting the opening of a new USC School of Cinematic Arts building, saying big changes are in store.

Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an "implosion" in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever. What comes next -- or even before then -- will be price variances at movie theaters, where "you're gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln." He also said that Lincoln came "this close" to being an HBO movie instead of a theatrical release.

George Lucas agreed that massive changes are afoot, including film exhibition morphing somewhat into a Broadway play model, whereby fewer movies are released, they stay in theaters for a year and ticket prices are much higher. His prediction prompted Spielberg to recall that his 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial stayed in theaters for a year and four months.

The two legendary filmmakers, along with CNBC anchor Julia Boorstin and Microsoft president of interactive entertainment business Don Mattrick, were speaking at the University of Southern California as part of the festivities surrounding the official opening of the Interactive Media Building, three stories high and part of the USC School of Cinematic Arts.....

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: hollywood; limolibs; lucas; movies; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; spielberg
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To: a fool in paradise

“Hollywood and Broadway have run out of ideas.”

It is said that there are only 36 basic dramatic plots. If someone comes up with the 37th then it’s not original.


81 posted on 06/13/2013 8:35:20 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: volunbeer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jvwi9wHek


82 posted on 06/13/2013 8:46:32 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

I will have to see Monte Cristo - missed that version and it looks great.


83 posted on 06/13/2013 8:49:16 PM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: mylife
Animation captured subtlety of human emotion better than CGI does.

Artists have been replaced by engineers, no, not even engineers because engineers design things, these are CGI code monkeys. I'm so sick of seeing the same recycled CGI in film after film and the sameness of the characters. The lead in "EPIC" looks like re-used CGI from "Rise of the Guardians" (Jack Frost). It's tiresome.

84 posted on 06/13/2013 8:51:00 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: mylife

There are a few good family movies being made. Courageous and Fireproof are a couple of examples. If the movie industry would make good positive family movies, people would go see them and also buy the DVD. I loved the movie “Winn-Dixie”. The grandkids like it too. My 9 yr old granddaughter’s favorite movie is “The God’s Must Be Crazy”. It’s so un-PC that I love it too. Very funny.


85 posted on 06/13/2013 8:55:02 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: thecodont

Amen Brother. Amen


86 posted on 06/13/2013 8:58:01 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: WVNan

The God’s Must Be Crazy was a great Indy film


87 posted on 06/13/2013 8:59:00 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: volunbeer

The film simply has everything.

A nice modern adaption of the classic.


88 posted on 06/13/2013 9:00:35 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: WVNan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCQIGiXf0JA


89 posted on 06/13/2013 9:13:06 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Hollywood goes bust the democrat party will have the taxpayers bail them out.


90 posted on 06/13/2013 9:18:07 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Free Stuff, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The last good movie I saw was the “Outlaw Josey Wales”.


91 posted on 06/13/2013 9:19:52 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The big multiplex’s will have the hardest time of it. The survivors will be a) the big IMAX 3D big spectaculars not co-located with megaplexes and b)the very small operators using cheaper movies to supplement a bar and restaurant.


92 posted on 06/13/2013 9:20:36 PM PDT by IDFbunny
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To: Jyotishi
Hollywood and Broadway have run out of ideas.

And how. Movies are mostly made for teenage boys, with car chases, explosions and people taking their clothes off. The writers are immature and dialogue-challenged.

I stopped going when drawing-room comedies disappeared.

93 posted on 06/13/2013 9:20:38 PM PDT by Liberty Wins
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To: thecodont

CGI will never replace great acting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvpxzl54D8


94 posted on 06/13/2013 9:34:52 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Borges
Independent films are Ok then? Foreign films?

I find a lot of indie films either sterile or left-wing. Always about dysfunctional characters (of course, the only sympathetic one being gay). Foreign films tend to be amoral, especially European made.

While I go once in a while to films, I have noticed a decline in Hollywood starting in the 80s. Definitely the spirit is gone. Doesn't matter whether the films are watched in a theater or DVD. Most leave me cold.

95 posted on 06/13/2013 9:44:33 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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Classic, because I say it it is.... Topper
96 posted on 06/13/2013 9:46:33 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife
Gun chewing can be LOUD and DISTURBING.

laughing my arse off! :-D

97 posted on 06/13/2013 9:53:12 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Dallas59

Prior to Flight 93, I can’t even guess what movie I saw last.

I also went to see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo over Christmas vacation six months ago. It was ok for what it was, and I was trying to be a cooperative husband and s-i-l.


98 posted on 06/13/2013 10:13:28 PM PDT by bluetick (If you're going to err, err on the side of liberty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The liberal commie experience un educating our children while we try everyday to counter it’s effects


99 posted on 06/14/2013 2:56:25 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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To: mylife

I’ll argue the opposite: there is no need for human actors anymore. The entire story will be CGI, and you’ll not miss the actors. They, of course, will go on strike, demanding that taxpayers subsidize their obsolescence, and make grand moral arguments about art.

I’ll say it again: acting is dead. Long live the illustrators and writers. (I do agree that Hollywood is out of ideas, which is a different issue. When you turn against virtue, you can’t have a hero; without heros, there are no stories.)


100 posted on 06/14/2013 3:28:50 AM PDT by Taliesan
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