Posted on 09/24/2017 9:27:47 AM PDT by EdnaMode
There has been a lot of discussion about the decline in domestic box office ticket sales, and what impact a boycott would have. Based on these statistics provided by the MPAA, it would appear that conservatives may not make up a majority of moviegoers. These are some of the stats provided by the MPAA:
2016 Domestic Box Office:
40% of tickets were purchased by moviegoers under the age of 25.
64% of tickets were purchased by moviegoers under the age of 40.
Only 51% of tickets were purchased by Caucasians
21% of tickets were purchased by Hispanics.
14% were purchased by African Americans.
The remaining 14% of tickets were purchased by Asians and other minorities.
Ticket sales were split 50/50 between men and women.
Canadian ticket sales are included in domestic box office totals, increasing the overall domestic ticket sales by millions.
So based on these statistics, the moviegoing audience is far less conservative than NFL fans. Hollywood is clearly catering to the under 25 crowd domestically (and international audiences). These audiences purchase tickets to comic book movies, blockbuster franchises, and horror movies in droves.
Hollywood is not making movies that would really appeal to older, conservative viewers. So while some may be boycotting, Hollywood simply isn't making that many movies that appeal to audiences over the age of 40.
Comic book movies, blockbuster franchises, and horror movies make the overwhelming majority of box office receipts. If Hollywood goes down, it won't be a boycott that does it, but it will be when the superhero bubble bursts and audiences (both domestically and overseas) tire of franchises.
If this does happen, politics won't officially be what destroyed Hollywood, but globalism certainly will be. The need to make films that appeal to all audiences, which is the reason so many films are so boring and unoriginal will be the cause of Hollywood's demise.
Source: http://www.mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MPAA-Theatrical-Market-Statistics-2016_Final-1.pdf
I don’t remember any Super hero movies in my youth. The first I recall was the 1966 BATMAN comedy, then this joke of a movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argoman_the_Fantastic_Superman
Now so many superhero si-fi movies have been made, several times I have noticed every movie at the local Six Plex theater has been a superhero-SiFi movie.
Today’s youth truly live in an age of fantasy.
The real point of all this is that the smugness of Hollywood calling itself “art” with buffoons like Meryl Streep is just a fraud. They only make money off the cartoons and superheroes. The audiences are immature and easily entertained by shiny objects, but government schools have suppressed their abilities to think. So forget art or anything serious.
*** 90 years of “product” under copyright on tv, cable, netflix, hulu, amazon prime, DVD, blu-ray, etc.***
And to think, in the ancient past, such films would be released for the screen, then go to double billing with another movie, then sold for the chemicals in the film, or thrown in a storeroom to degrade.
Then came TV, and a new market to keep degraded films alive. Think of many of the great films of the past in which there are no copies of today.
Exactly. We cannot boycott Hollywood because we've already been doing that for years.
There are still some, but the owners haven’t spit on the flag like the NFL has
Conservatives need to enter the market place and make good, decent, patriotic movies. Movies that show America and Americans at their best. Watch such films make a mint. Remember the “Passion of Christ” that Mel Gibson made? He made a great deal of money on that. More Christian focused films. More films on American History Remember “The Patriot”?
Some ideas I give away Free of charge to any film maker or screen writer out there on the Free Republic.
1. Admiral John Paul Jones in Russia—his career in the Russian Navy vs. Turks after the Revolution.
2. The Morro War after the Spanish-American war. How the US defeater Islamic Morros.
3. The siege of Louisburg in the French and Indian War where American colonials proved they could fight and beat French troops.
4. The travels of Oscar Wilde in the American West. How a Gay British writer captured the admiration of American cowboys in the west on a tour.
5. Benidict Arnold—a tragic figure both hero and traitor of the Revolution.
6. The story of PT Barnum and his museum in New York City.
Agreed. There used to be good movies that appealed to older moviegoers. My family used to go to several movies a year.
Totally agree.
Whether through rentals, Netflix, Amazon, etc., Hollywood gets a cut of all that.
yep, these helicopters swooping on Kim dot com in New Zealand tells you who has power in America. Obviously the FBI sucks cock to these Hollywood traitors who spew communist sht day in day out.
Like I said, cancel your subscriptions and stream the bootleg as a sample (no torrent hard drive trace storage).
They’re having enough trouble trying to get the next one finished and the han solo movie is a disaster in the making.
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