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Hollywood's Bad Summer Movies Are Driving a Decline in Movie Ticket Sales (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: While some people may point at The Emoji Movie as the root of all that is wrong with Hollywood, The Wall Street Journal reports that the problem goes much deeper than a single misfire featuring Patrick Stewart as a poop emoji. WSJ reports that movie attendance has dropped by 5%, compared with the same period in 2016, and revenues are down, too, dipping just 2.9%, thanks to higher ticket prices making up for the lack of ticket sales. On Aug. 2, AMC shares dropped 27% in one day, the WSJ reports. While films like Beauty and the Beast, Wonder Woman, and Get Out fared well at the box office, they were the anomalies in a year full of box office disappointments. Instead of giving moviegoers more badass female leads and genre-bending horror films, Hollywood keeps throwing gobs of money at an unwanted fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, more Transformers movies, and putting $175 million into King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and then clutching their pearls in shock that no one wanted to see them.
Translation: "I can't believe Star Wars cast a woman in a leading role and didn't show off her tiddies."
You are welcome on my lawn.
There are still too many white males in prominent roles in movies. Movie revenue will increase once all white males are cast in unimportant or comedy relief roles then phased out entirely. Hollywood must boycott white males if they want to succeed.
The problem I had with Dunkirk, especially with buildup in the earlier trailers, I was expecting an English monster movie. I lost interest when it became clear that it was just another war movie.
Who invented emojis? Millennials. Who invented millennials? Leftists. Checkmate, Martian.
I bet you aren't even from Mars.