Posted on 11/23/2004 11:24:10 PM PST by kattracks
Lights! Camera! Agita!Despite monster hits like "The Incredibles" and "Shark Tale," Hollywood is hurting this season, with overall box-office earnings down well below the take in the same period for the previous two years.
In the 10 weeks from Labor Day to just before Thanksgiving, the film industry grossed $1.39 billion, down 14 percent from last year's record of $1.63 billion and off 12 percent from $1.59 billion in 2002.
Fall ticket sales were a bust as well, dropping 18 percent from last year's figure, from 268.3 million ducats to 219.9 million. This year's sales also were below the 222.8 million reported in 1998.
Analysts lamented that the first part of the post-summer season was, to put it in movie terms, a colossal bomb.
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The Hollywood Reporter blames a shorter-than-usual season for some of the drop in income. This year's fall season was one of the more frequently occurring 10-week periods, while the previous two years were both 11-week seasons.
But the industry mag concluded the dramatic decline was caused by a combination of bad movies and bad buzz about them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They are missing the hobbits now!
It appears that it's time to Pay the Price for past indiscretions towards the country and our President. Lets hope that the RED STATES will punish all those Hollywood types who crossed the line by Bashing our President.
Plus all the movies suck.
I'd just as soon stay home and watch reruns....
Give it 3 months and I bet there's a movie made about it....
After a while people just tire of paying $10-15 to be assaulted for 2 hours by vulgarities,murders,incest,and all sorts of deviant behaviors all without decent dialogue or acting talent.Now for that money you can rent an arm load of oldies but goodies that everybody in the family can watch.
Exactly!
After all why spend money on something that one can get for free just by driving to work?
When entertainment figures trade on their celebrity status
to make political statements, why would they be surprised
when the audience turns its entertainment dollars into
political statements.
Hollywood is mostly in the business of filling the
screen with lies (fiction) that is biased to support a
philosophy that if achieved, would get the audience
impoverished, enslaved and ultimately killed. We would
want to pay for this precisely why?
Well!! Well!! Well!! Jollywood, They must be Sodomizing each other, hoping to reach a higher plain of understanding to find out why no one wants to see their stupid, disfunctional, ignorant, foulmouthed, gross picture with no talent acting. They tell each other how great they are, that's how they are great!!
I've got movies on tape. Movies that were made when movies were worth watching. I getting so sick of TV and all the commercials, I think I'll join a book club!!
Actually, I thought National Treasure was a fun movie that showed a lot of reverence for American History and the Founding Fathers. I wouldn't mind seeing it crush Fahrenheit 911 at the Box Office.
You're talking about "Kinsey", right?
A more execrable "hero" for a movie I can't imagine.
Polar Express is financed by Steve Bing. He invested about 80 mil on it. So far, the movie has made 53 mil in its 13th day. His other investment: Kerry. Bing gave about 15 mil.
Alexander the Great is now dubbed Oliver Stone's Alexander the Gay. (per fox news) Mothers and Fathers are not going to take their children to see a movie depicting San Francisco homosexuality.
The commercials now rapidly show the nobody reviewers in order to create the illusion for positive reviews. (remember when sony was caught MAKING UP reviewers for films with no positive reviews.)
Definitly NOT for family or holiday viewing.
The Incredibles was great! I have seen it three times and plan to go again.
Even though my husband and I try to go to the movies a few times a month, we refused to see the slasher flicks they had out; refused to see that Susan Sarandan dance movie because I will not support her no matter what; we refused to see the new Pierce Brosnan movie because he is another stupid lib who can't keep his mouth shut about politics, and we WILL NOT go see the upcoming movie that is a sequel to Meet the Parents ... because Babs is in that one. We did see Mel Gibson's Paparazzi movie, that was the last one we saw before the Incredibles.
Another good one was Ladder 49, if anyone hadn't seen it.
Thanks for the info on Steve Bing; I won't see Polar Express now. We went to National Treasure tonight; it was a fun escapist movie. But I wonder when Hollywood is going to figure it out, that we don't want to give more money to the people who keep telling us what stupid repugnant (Julia Roberts) morons we are because we are Republicans or support our President.
When will they learn that people just won't pay to see crap no matter who is in it.
David Manning, fictional reviewer of The Animal.
They used three quotes from darkhorizons.com. I haven't been there in years, but they used to post "regular guy" reviews--real Usenet-level stuff. That's what it's come down to for Alexander. If they had to scrape any deeper, they'd be quoting AICN talk-backers.
BTW, Alexander's up to 14% at Rotten Tomatoes! Whoo hoo! Their "cream of the crop" reviewers are up to 15%. Dismal.
I would loved to go see a film about Alexander the Great that just didn't discuss his sexuality at all. I think it would be fascinating!
But I will never see this film. Hollywood is stupid. As Boundless said, above: "When entertainment figures trade on their celebrity status
to make political statements, why would they be surprised
when the audience turns its entertainment dollars into
political statements."
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