Posted on 09/03/2017 5:07:27 AM PDT by KyCats
Even before this catastrophic Labor Day weekend is factored in (more on this below), the domestic 2017 box office is in hideous shape. This year is –6.3% behind 2016 and continues to fall behind 2015, 2013, and 2012.
If you figure in inflation, those numbers are even worse. For example, in 2012 the average ticket cost $7.96. Today it is almost a full dollar more at $8.89. Yeah, things are that bad and will look even worse on Tuesday.
With no apparent faith in their own product, this is the first Labor Day in 25 years where a new title has not been released on more than 1,000 screens. Over this weekend last year, the box office hauled in nearly $130 million. This year will do about a third of that.
Summer attendance is at a 25-year low.
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My guilty pleasure this summer was “Z, The Beginning of Everything.” Story of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. What a train wreck that marriage was. I think it was an Amazon original.
Christina Ricci is excellent as Zelda IMHO. I didn’t recognize her until I saw her name as executive producer. Not a family friendly show - lots of adult conent, but a good look at the times and how damaged she and F Scott were - mostly by their own actions.
Note to Hollyweird: My offer to go through your slush piles is still open....
Basically it comes down to Jesse Custer searching for God, while the Cowboy is sent to kill him because he still has Genesis in him (the product of a union between an angel and a demon, of course). If the Cowboy is successful, he is freed from his time in hell.
I refuse to see the Reacher movies. I’ve read all the books and Tom cruise is no Reacher.
“I always wonder why nobody understood the message Hollywood sent long ago in Giant when at the end all the money of the family is going to the Mexican kid.”
Good for you, I always thought that, too!
Even worse, the fight at the end, where the “evil” restaurant owner righteously decked the faggot Hudson for not leaving as he was told to do, showed the owner’s sign on the wall declaring “We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To Anyone For Any Reason”. This scene was pure propaganda put up on movie screens to make people like the restaurant look bad, just before the “Civil Rights Era” scam destroyed everyone’s Constitutional rights to their private property. Once the commies were able to do that, then they knew they could implement “Forced Integration” by destroying everyone’s Constitutional rights to free association (forced busing followed), “Abortion Rights” forcing state governments to allow over forty years of ongoing slaughter, “Obamacare” forcing people to fund abortions against their will, and now “LGBTQ Rights” forcing everyone to accept unfettered sodomy and degeneracy. Like a snowball rolling downhill.
“GIANT”,
How long will we find ourselves able to watch this movie again? They’ve taken “SONG OF THE SOUTH”, “AMOS AND ANDY”,”GONE WITH THE WIND” out of circulation. Soon this large movie will be yanked as well. Given time, it’s bound to happen.
BTW, look to see “FANTASIA” disappear due to the dancing rinos, hippos, and ostriches
No new movies?
And I was so looking forward to a new homosexual infused story this weekend.
Hollywood’s woes have nothing to do with politics and everything to do with crappy movies that cost too much can’t compete with awesome television programs streamed at home.
Only saw one movie ‘Cars3’. Our 7 year old wanted to see it, so did ConservaTeen, so we did. Good movie...
And then there are the worthless films being released.
Etc,etc,etc.
Why would *anyone* want to set foot in a movie theater???
>>I was thinking about all the arts last night and realizing that during this period of high political correctness, expression in the arts is being strangled.<<
This is actually one of the “tactics” listed for the communist takeover of America: to replace beautiful works of art with absolute trash and call the trash beautiful art.
I’m not sure how much of Hollywood’s version of this is intentional communist takeover stuff or if they’ve simply become incompetent and blinded by living in a sexually perverted PC/SJW bubble 24 hours a day. But either way, I’m not buying what they’re selling and I’m glad to see them failing at whatever it is they think they’re doing.
Nolte left out another problem, people are sick and tired of celebs running off at the mouth. And filthy mouths at that. Bad mouthing America. Bad mouthing politics. Bad mouthing decency. Bad mouthing skin color. Bad mouthing their customers.
This does create a great opportunity for the rise of a *conservative* movie studio.
The trick to doing this is to use the extremely profitable Golan-Globus/Cannon Films model.
The idea was to produce a dozen movies with shoestring budgets, with the idea that maybe four of them would be flops, another three would be break even, another three or four would make a modest profit, and one or two would be “hits”, enough to pay for all twelve movies and then some.
If you crunch the numbers on this, what you see are really big profit *margins*. Unlike a big budget Hollywood movie that costs a fortune, say $150m not including another $50m for advertising, and needs to make $300m to “break even”, it has a *lot* lower profit margin, so is a system that will eventually fail.
The conservative movie studio should not even bother to release in theaters, which are mostly tied to the Hollywood studios. Instead they should go direct to video, either DVD and/or streaming. They might even give away their flops for free, which might earn enough for them to join the break even group.
Other things:
Ignore the unions. Do not hire SAG actors, union workers, the MPAA, etc. Instead get new actors, directors, producers and tech people and work in right to work states. Spend a lot more money on scripting, live instead of canned music production, minimal special effects, as well as practical effects and old style, like stop action.
Split production in several ways: a “family films” unit, an “action films” unit, a “comedy films” unit, and an “art films and documentaries” unit. And underlying it all is a rejection of Hollywood values (lack thereof), political correctness and perversion, and liberalism and Democrat party suck up.
Its real money will be made in doing movies that Hollywood refuses to make, and will draw hateful and bitter criticisms from the liberal crowd.
“Fargo” was a good movie, one of the best ever. But that was back in 1996. I still like watching it though. Jerry Lundegard was played perfectly by that actor guy whose name I can’t remember.
FreeRepublic needs a like button...that was funny...
I’ve seen most of the big releases this year. At home.
Sometime in the 80s they came out with the re-mastered version of Fantasia. I took a lady and her two pre-teen boys to see it. It didn't take me long to see that (the old) Disney was no match for the likes of SDtar Wars, video games, etc. when it came to holding the kids' attention
I have not been to a movie theatre in 10 years,no interest in the product. I did see a trailer on the internet that gave me pause it was called “Wind River”. Has anyone on Free Republic seen it? I don’t trust reviews from the “experts”.
Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood didn’t have a movie out this spring best I figure.
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