Posted on 12/31/2014 4:24:46 AM PST by C19fan
Despite a fantastic Christmas at the box office, 81 million people didn’t buy movie tickets this year. Not only were this year’s domestic admissions of 1.259 billion off 6% from 2013’s 1.34B, but the number of tickets sold hit their lowest level since 1995 when 1.211B people went to the cinema. Calculations are based on this year’s 3Q ticket price average of $8.12 from the National Association of Theater Owners, just a penny off from 2013’s $8.13. The upside is that thanks to Christmas, 2014 crossed $10 billion with a current estimated running cume for January 1-December 28 of $10.22B per Rentrak Theatrical. Some of the major studios are still on holiday with final figures set to be released on January 5. Here at Deadline we’re weighing 2014 according to the fiscal year of January 1-December 31, and we’ll be providing updates about the year along the way (studios tend to include the first weekend of January in their previous year’s hauls). Through Sunday, six studios have made in excess of $1B – Fox, Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, Paramount and Universal – a scenario not unlike 2013. Here we give a rundown of the majors and the mini-majors this year.
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Maybe they should put out even more left-wing crap and pointless pro-leftist schlock.
That ought to boost ticket sales.
With the low price of big screen tvs and quality sound systems people can enjoy watching in their own homes and have enough choices to wait the studios out until their movies are available on video.
If the studios would start turning out good, original movies (not retreads of old movies), then maybe people would go see them. Sadly, the dreck being spit out these days is not worth the time it takes to sit through the movie or the cost to see said movie.
When I feel like going to a movie I often can’t find one I find both interesting and acceptable to me content-wise. I don’t even think I am THAT picky, it is just THAT bad. I don’t want porn or even snippets of porn in a movie. I like the movie era that didn’t go there. I also do not want bathroom “humor” movies. I don’t want homo stuff in the movie. Etc. Therefore I rarely go out to see a movie. I have my own collection at home. I won’t give my money to fund that garbage through cable or whatever service either.
It’s not so much the venues available for people to watch, it’s the quality of the movies being released. The best movies to come out of Hollywood anymore are superhero movies and remakes of old classics. There are no compelling dramas, gripping thrillers, or truly masterful horror movies out of Hollywood anymore, and people are just fatigued by the same old schlock.
My wife and I spend a lot of time watching movies on NetFlix and Amazon Prime. Half the time I find myself at the end of a movie saying, “Boy, I’m glad I didn’t spend $12 to see that movie in the theaters.”
To be fair, some excellent movies out now are Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6. We don’t have kids and found these movies to be pretty amazing anyway. The Maze Runner was okay but could’ve been so much more.
I don’t mind a retread so long as it is good. Usually they take something good and give it a modern day trash dressing. No thank you.
I haven’t been to a movie theater since the previous century, and I don’t feel that my life is any less full because of it.
With the low price of big screen tvs and quality sound systems people can enjoy watching in their own homes and have enough choices to wait the studios out until their movies are available on video.
Of course that's a big part of it. Not to mention the disgusting behavior of some movie-goers (and it doesn't take many to ruin the experience for all)... and the highway-robbery prices of the "snacks" (I know, they have to do it to stay in business, but I don't have to patronize them).
3d is an attempt to buck the trend and bring back the audiences. And I've gone to see a couple of 3d movies myself.
And it is critical to locate a theatre not frequented by adult ferals. They don’t know how to be civil in a movie theatre.
Just sayin’
The adult ferals are mobile and can range outside of their habitats.
I call ‘em orcs.
Orcs
Quite accurate.
I can plan to see a movie at a certain showing, eat supper early to make sure I don’t miss the opening time, get in my car and drive for 30 minutes to the cineplex, fin a parking spot, stand in line to purchase a ticket, hunt for a good seat all for $15 -or- I can stay at home, select the movie of my choice at the time I want, from the comfort of my own chair and show it on my home theater system for about $5. The time of the big movie theater houses has passed.
The noise in a theater is so obnoxious I can’t stand to even be near one. What’s worse, most of it is coming from the theater sound system. They put so much background noise into the sound track that it drowns out what the speakers are saying. When they turn up the volume so high that you can hear the talking, too, it’s so loud in the room that it exceeds OSHA noise limits. Once you take out all of the cussing and swearing, there is nothing left but the birds chirping and tires squealing, anyway. The net result is that I haven’t been to a movie in a theater for years.
Spot on.
Too many actors and actresses dragging their lib butts up in front of a microphone and giving Americans the Gruber treatment (”You’re stupid.”).
They’re immediately kicked off my list of go-to-see entertainers.
The noise in a theater is so obnoxious....
and the screens are too big.
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