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 ...
Well, when they put out (mostly) junk, what do they expect? I won't gratuitously pay $9 a movie (times 5, if I take my whole family) for crummy stuff just for the sake of "entertainment". It's not worth it. We can go bowling for a lot cheaper than that and it's more healthy ;-). Plus, when I finally decide what's good enough output out of Hollywood that's worth my time, I can go rent it at the nearby Family Video for $1 or two a movie (even cheaper than Blockbuster).
It's not just his family connections (check your spelling, by the way :) ).
Cage is one hell of an actor. His performance in "Raising Arizona" was nothing short of brilliant.
The Punisher: I can think of few movies whose TRAILERS — which are SUPPOSED to make you WANT to see the flick — more gave me the feeling, "Yeah, I can really happily miss that one!"
Dan
Better to build model airplanes and whittle sticks into toothpicks than waste time in theaters.
Well, hey, that's what happens when all you do is make movies about how the world is being destroyed by global warming which is a crock and inject your political agenda into every single movie you make.
If I want politics I'll run downtown to the Hill or flip on C-SPAN. I don't pay to see fat slobs or other people attempting to inject their agenda into me or my family/kids.
It also takes away from movies for me when losers such as [list too long] run around attacking me and my values and then go 'on the big screen' and expect me to pay their salaries. So perhaps this should serve as a little reminder for them.
Lastly, people who used to wash dishes, wait on tables, and do other work requiring a post-elementary education, and people who have zero educational, intellectual, or otherwise achievement credentials, then finally get a job at "pretending", talk condescendingly to us as if their "pretending" "skills" somehow have immediately propelled them to the ranks of "those who know" when only months prior they would have been laughed out of the room if they had offered their opinions which are insulting to anyone that does happen to possess a degree of intelligence, common sense, reason, and morals.
I've been spending my time on TMC and AMC. The movies there from the "olden days" are so incredibly superior to today's movies from a plot/storyline perspective that it should be shameful.
"The Hollywood Reporter blames a shorter-than-usual season"
Blame it on the rain, yeah, yeah.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy! /sarcasm
Just caught that on Sat. Good movie. I also recommend it.
I must say I was surprised Hollyweird made it though. It's a war movie and it shows children (young boys growing up real fast) using guns. Little ones and big ones. Swords too. Oh my!
BINGO!
Everything is a rehash of an old classic, a special effects dud or...(Garrison Keillor voice) something only 'intellectually superior' critics would enjoy.
I just saw a movie that might appeal to you: "Finding Neverland" with Johnny Depp & Kate Winslet. About the author of "Peter Pan." Very charming and clean as a whistle.
They are putting Angeline Jolie in just about every movie these days, hoping her puffy lips will be a drawing card. She has so many weird tatoos all over her body (and keeps getting more) they are soon going to not be able to cover the things up with clothing or else have to spend millions air brushing the off the movie tapes.
I know, I know. I tried to check, but IMDB wasn't responding for a couple of minutes there. When you wear this tagline, you occasionally have to accept the consequences :)
I haven't seen Raising Arizona, though I've certainly had it recommended to me. I've just never seen the guy in anything I liked. Which, come to think of it, is mostly trailers for movies I didn't go see because he managed to annoy me in the trailer.
Why do movies only come out of Hollywood?
Why not an alternative?
Mel Gibson- get on the case!
Series-ly folks, think about it. How about a choice? Wouldn't it be great if some common sense non-perverted folks got together and started cranking out movies that didn't seek to destroy our country?
Why can't it be?
Hollywood has been shown time and again that they lose when they emphasize the leftist agenda over entertainment but they refuse to acknowledge the truth. And they have the nerve to call conservatives idiots?
"I've been spending my time on TMC and AMC. The movies there from the "olden days" are so incredibly superior to today's movies from a plot/storyline perspective that it should be shameful."
Ditto! Those older movies are in such a class of their own far above today's trash that there really is no comparison.
AMEN! They took us for fools and they're going to pay the price! Hehehehehehehe
Actually, the original Japanese language movie ("Shall We Dance") on which it was based is available for rental on Netflix. Cute!
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