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Post by Ripley on Sept 5, 2016 5:59:28 GMT -5
ICurious for your thoughts here , dark sister as the resident film expert? "LOS ANGELES — Sequel fatigue does not fully explain it. Nor does an overload of mega-budget event movies. A spate of terrible films? Yes, but that’s not entirely the explanation, either. In a summer when studios suffered more misfires than ever, many of them supersized, Hollywood is scratching for answers, and some longtime movie executives are pointing toward a nuanced shift in consumer behavior. For the first time since moviegoing became a staple of American life, an underappreciated revenue engine — ticket buyers who still trek to theaters more for the experience than for the movie itself — may finally be conking out. “We’re in a situation where, if people don’t get excited about a specific movie and plan in advance to go to it, you may end up with literally no one,” said Adam Fogelson, the former chairman of Universal Pictures who now runs STX Entertainment’s film unit..." link
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Post by dark sister on Sept 5, 2016 14:06:34 GMT -5
Ripley I think the author is being a bit dramatic. I also think they realized it half way through writing that because their tone changed from "flops!!" To "well, maybe not." I have a problem with one of the articles linked in that piece because I refuse to consider movies to not matter in a year that's already given us Captain America: Civil War, Green Room, The Lobster, The Witch, etc. There's a lot of great films out there that they don't seem to br considering. But back to the link, half the films they listed don't really define a flop. The Nice Guys surely wasn't and BFG and Pete's Dragon were never meant to be huge money makers. I feel the true flops of the summer were Alice Through the Looking Glass and Ben Hur. And just because a few studios made sequels that they probably shouldn't have doesn't mean the movie business is doomed. Finding Dory says hello. Lol
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