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Posted on 04/18/2012 10:35:40 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
It's curious enough that toy company Hasbro now counts as a Hollywood powerhouse, and still curiouser that Peter Berg managed to make a narrative (sort of) out of Battleship, but what makes me most curious is the fact that the premiere was held in Tokyo. In fact, much of the marketing of this unabashedly patriotic film about the US Navy fighting aliens has focused on the international angle, which leads us to wonder- are non-Americans now the primary audience of Hollywood cinema?
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He’s a Democrat that sounds more like a Republican. A couple of his articles have been posted on here, so you can check for yourself.
“IIRC there wasn’t much if any overt religion in the book.
No gender issues either.”
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Well that’s my point. The intent and focus of Card’s creation, certainly won’t stop Hollywood from inserting its usual messages, unless the author specifically reins them in.
Cameron distorted much of the real history of HMS Titanic, and that was an ACTUAL documented, historic event.
Foreign grosses became the predominant factor in Hollywood profits about twenty years ago. The need to appeal to the international market drives a lot of decisions that otherwise seem hard to explain.
He self-describes as a Dem. I'd call him a Conservative Christian Democrat. That makes him a pretty rare breed of cat, IMHO.
And FWIW, I've not read Ender's Game. I've tried to read a couple of his other books (don't remember the titles, they were so unremarkable) and I thought they were pretty much unreadable. Came across sort of like a Tom Clancy-lite, without the character development and plot.
I think he faced that in Speaker For The Dead. Not at all in the first book. I think it may start in First Meetings.
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They managed to downplay the kid-on-kid violence in the Hunger Games. I’m sure they can do so on Enders Game.
Might have been the Alvin Maker series, or the Homecoming series.
You ought to give Ender’s Game a try. It’s required reading at OCS I’ve heard.
It’s the latest fantasy craze and I personally don’t care for it. Ender’s Game still is relatively underground but has a hardcore following. I think sci-fi is generally more abstract than fantasy so that may have something to do with it.
And another thing, the violence is also something that helps shape and strengthen the character. It can’t just be left out.
Movies are made in Mexico and Canada to cut costs.....UNIONS plus over paid actors.....imho
i don’t want to think of what horrific thing they’re going to do with the bonzo fight.
“I think it has more to do with Hollywoods moral bankruptcy then anything else.”
Well that’s certainly part of it, but there’s a large measure of value-neutral business calculation operating here as well.
The global market dwarfs our domestic market and movie makers are targeting that audience and not us. So America-specific themes get rejected.
It’s similar to what’s led to outsourcing and the wholesale transfer of manufacturing to China. The world changed dramatically when the USSR collapsed in 1989 and the old Communist bloc joined the world economy. The developing Third World economies began their explosive growth as well.
The ‘Boomers grew up in a world where the American market was the largest market in the world. American located businesses employed Americans and targeted their products to the American market. Large firms even had specific ties to individual cities.
Well that world and that economy is gone. What we once thought of as ‘American’ corporations went from having a national focus with some international sales, to being multinational with a global focus. Most would likely defer from being described as ‘American’ firms at this point. Their market is global, their workforce is global. So the product they make becomes less and less distinctively American. This is true in Hollywood as well, but it’s probably more just more visible to us.
Enders Game isn’t a bit underground, as I understand it. Its on lots of high schoool reading lists.
“In many recent movies, those with a plot seem to bomb in the US and explode overseas, Captain America and Thor are two examples. America wants explosions and effects with no thought required.”
Wait, I don’t get it. Are you saying Captain America and Thor weren’t just about explosions and effects?
Way to work in an irrelevant dig at Palin in a discussion about Hollywood movies, and defend the Hollywood left, smooth....
Maybe Star Trek.
The international market has definitely became an even bigger factor than it was in the last few years. And not just on the films you might expect. Look how huge Mamma Mia was overseas. Foreign grosses used to be expected to about match domestic grosses on a Hollywood blockbuster. Now I would say they inching closer to averaging 50% more than domestic.
U.S. ticket sales seem to be declining, no doubt because of the huge price increases in the last year or two which came at the worst possible time, when our economy is cratering.
There also seems to be a little boredom setting in for superhero movies and CGI cartoons, which used to be reliably massive grossers here but have been declining. But foreigners are still eating up those types of films and seem to be much less picky about quality. Spider-Man 3 was panned here and grossed much more poorly than the other two, but it was the most popular of the series overseas.
Unfortunately if you look around at other markets, EVERYTHING’S doing better overseas. The U.S. economy SUCKS right now. That cannot be understated. There is NO growth potential here in just about any market, but lots of it overseas.
“Lot’s of movies do better internationally than domestically. Good example; Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”, which grossed over $200 million in Japan alone BEFORE opening in the USA.”
You’re confusing yourself, there. That was a Japanese movie. It doing better in Japan than here excludes it as an example of something doing better internationally.
Faux Trek ? Noooooo.
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