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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.
Emoji Movie may be all that's wrong with Hollywood, but Baby Driver and Dunkirk are what is right with it.
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.
Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Production budget: $230,000000
Worldwide gross: $781,537,470
Transformers 5
Production budget: $217,000,000
Worldwide gross: $586,549,576
Somebody, somewhere wanted to see them, which is why Hollywood keeps making them.
You might have bigger problems than the SJWs, my friend.
Yes, like a lack of titties in movies.
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Let's be honest, the only reason of Carry Fisher's success was the bikini scene RofJ, not the depth of the Princess Leia.
Real TFA doesn't even mention emojis OR "more badass female leads and genre-bending horror films".
All that was injected into discourse by the "writer" of that blogpost masquerading as TFA.
Cause... clickbait.
Basically, it boils down to more expensive tickets...
A summer without a real mega-blockbuster cause all the slots were taken by expensive non-starters or franchises which have overextended their welcome and overpaid for the production...
And talk about earlier streaming options making distributors nervous. Very nervous.
Also... Chinese investors. But mostly it's about streaming.
No agendas.
Nor is it about genre-bending horrors and chicks who punch people.
It's about distributors riding their favorite geldings along the road - when a strange mechanical contraption suddenly roared passed them, leaving them and their animals shaken and scared in a cloud of dust and exhaust fumes.
And then a different machine FLEW over them! GASP!
Is this the end of the horse industry as we know it?
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This seems no surprise to me. Movie experience is essentially a constant. TVs keep getting better and bigger. I find little difference these days watching movies at home. In fact until we've had a 10 foot projection screen in our media room since 2008. I had a tri-beam data-grade projector back in 2000 that I powered with a myHD card. I haven't cared that much about seeing things in the theater since the introduction of Blu-Ray. With shows like Game of Thrones you essentially get a movie fix once a week minimum anyway. Here is the main thing. Learn to delay gratification. Once your watching everything 6 months delayed, your watching the same amount of content and basically the same amount of enjoyment for a lot lower cost point (which helps pay for your kick-ass media room).
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