Posted on 01/24/2006 12:38:35 PM PST by Millee
This is a make-or-break year for Hollywood.
“One down year is an anomaly, but two could be a trend,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office-tracking firm Exhibitor Relations Co. “This year is really a turning point.”
Keenly aware of the 7% drop in movie attendance in 2005, studio executives are pinning their hopes on a better slate of films to draw consumers back to the multiplex. But industry watchers say the business has more far-reaching problems that a few good films can’t necessarily fix as in-control consumers turn to entertainment alternatives like Netflix, the Internet and on-demand programming.
Box office down With box office down and costs up -- the average Hollywood film now costs about $65 million to produce and another $35 million for prints and advertising—this could well be a watershed year as executives are forced to rethink some of the traditional tenets of the business. Among them: cinemas getting first crack at releases; top acting talent getting sweetheart deals; and rethinking the hallowed concept of tent-pole movies.
Moreover, pundits predict that studio marketing dollars will continue to migrate away from TV and toward the Internet, grassroots events and guerrilla marketing.
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Speaking of movies, have you ever seen a tear-jerker before?
;o)
watch it.
Not intentionally.
;-)
I vote break!
Hey, Walk the Line was pretty good, and Underworld: Evolution was great.
Cool. Let's break it.
Saw Memoirs of a Geisha...extraordinarily beautiful cinemaphography. And i cried a tear or two toward the end, yes.
Hollywood is still making money. And if they put less toward cinema releases, avoiding the print/distribution/advertising costs, and do pay-per-view and DVD releases, etc., the only people getting the short end will be the exhibitors. Hollywood will still make money and produce the same biased garbage. They'll just do it more cheaply.
Once I get my widescreen HDTV, a new surround sound system, and HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray's come out, I won't have any use for seeing a movie in the theater.
I go to lunch and the entire history of that thread is gone. What happened?
Have you read the book?
Guess the investors for Humpback Mountain will cry too as those on the Left Coast continue to scramble to convince others to throw away their own money to produce junk so those in the movie / entertainment industry can continue to receive a paycheck and purchase way overpriced homes and go to functions to bash Bush and Conservatives.
Coulda fooled me....
..Brokeback Mountain?????
...Munich???????
...Good Night and Good Luck????
Syriana?????
....and I know Catholics and Evangelical Protestants can't wait for ...The DiVinci Code...:( ...sarcasm!
They don't get it, and they never will.
Well, it wasn't me...
True Grit, when John Wayne's horse gets shot from under him. It's a two hanky moment.
loved the book, couldn't put it down. Much better than the movie, of course, but the photography in the movie made up for it...and the actors were excellent.
I will continue with my pledge to stay out of movie theaters in '06.
I had read that they will release a movie on DVD the same time it is released in the theater to see the reaction. Why watch a movie in a lousy theater when most people have large screens, great sound systems and a nice comfortable couch.
Totally agree : )
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