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Posted on 11/17/2025 1:12:26 PM PST by SmokingJoe
The far-left New York Times will never admit why this is happening, but it did report that the 2025 summer box office was the worst since 1981, the worst in 44 years.
“Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981, after adjusting for inflation and excluding the Covid pandemic years,” the Times reported.
This was supposed to be the summer when the North American box office returned to form — finally from the pandemic slump.
“We believe that a dramatic reawakening of the industrywide domestic box office has begun,” Adam Aron, chief executive of AMC Entertainment, the continent’s largest theater operator, gleefully told analysts in May. He predicted that Hollywood’s summer movies would be “barn burners, one after another.”
“Survive till ’25,” was the Hollywood mantra, as though the appeal and quality of the product had nothing to do with that survival.
“Is it time for Hollywood to concede that a lot of moviegoers in North America are never coming back? That movie theaters have permanently lost 20 to 25 percent of their customers?” the Times asked.
Yes, but for only one reason — which has nothing to do with the pandemic, streaming, or early releases to the home video market. And that single reason is … appeal.
If streaming and theatrical windows and the pandemic caused the worst summer box office in 44 years, why did the summers of 2022, 2023, and 2024 produce better box office results?
The Times does, in a roundabout way, admit that part of the problem is quality, as in tired franchises that don’t deliver like they once did: Superman, Jurassic Park, all things Marvel, etc.
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“Adam Aron, chief executive of AMC Entertainment, the continent’s largest theater operator, gleefully told analysts in May. He predicted that Hollywood’s summer movies would be “barn burners, one after another.”
Firing this guy would be my first cost cutting move.
Lol.
Studios push films on streaming services because they can show what cannot be shown in a cinema.
I haven’t seen an original thought out of Hollywood in years. Everything is a sequel, prequel, live adaptation, remake, or adapted book. Then they have to “tweak” the material to fit their values. It’s no wonder they are all scared to death of AI.
Good!
Crap scripts, bad remakes, and woke trash is not a way to make money. You would think after over 5 years of this, they would figure it out, but it appears they would rather push a message than make money.
“Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981”
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They’d be better off bringing back drive-ins....of course considering how society has deteriorated, there would probably be a shooting every weekend.
1981 wasn’t a bad year! Raiders of the lost ark and heavy metal came out that summer!!
Well he wasn’t wrong, they burned money like it was kindling.
Few saving graces in hollywood these days....one shining light being the Cohen Brothers.....but even their stuff isn’t for everyone.
One of the stupidest things they do is put it on steaming 3 weeks after it leaves the theaters.
Most people now just wait a few weeks, and it is “free”.
The new wave of script writers are extremely libtard far left, woke fem bots. The stories they concoct are not stories. They’re sermons, not plot lines. There is no character development. We’re just supposed to accept the libtard flavor of the day.
No RIP for Hollywood. They really deserve a painful death.
Hollywood made plenty of money, unless they are comparing 1981 dollars to 2025 dollars.
Porky’s as well.
I’ve enjoyed a lot of their work but they haven’t had a satisfying ending since “Raising Arizona.” Americans like things tied up happy and neat lol!
Hollywood is dead to me. Quality has nothing to do with it. The politics of big entertainment finally got to me. I no longer want to contribute in a multilayered way to the DNC anymore.
Taking account of inflation, they should make vastly more money in 2025.
Not to mention the natural growth of businesses.
Look at Microsoft for example, they are making vastly more money now than they did in 1981.
the real problem are original scripts, because they can be founded on, and filled, chock-a-block with woke ... adapted books, classic and high quality fiction, OTOH *COULD* be made into great movies if not wokified ... even better, is to make mini-series from adapted books, books like “Texasville” for example ...
One exception is “A Serious Man”. I waited for years to watch that movie because I never could find it for free, thought being it must be good if it’s still PPV after all this time....I finally saw it on Amazon at a discounted price, bit the bullet and purchased it........what an absolute STINKER!
I know Cohen movies can be a little off the wall but sheesh.
It was so bad I returned it and made Amazon refund my money.
Real rebels and trailblazers don’t look like everything else is that is available. One summer movie season with some original productions like Blazing Saddles and/or Dirty Harry and/or the original Disney stuff and the crowds will be back in the theaters paying too much for popcorn and Milk Duds.
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