Movie attendance has flatlined since the mid-60’s. Hollywood sells about 1.2 billion movie tickets a year, compared to some 4.1 billion tickets a year during the height of the Great Depression.
In 1935 some 80 million people a week would go to the movies when the population was barely 120 million. So nearly 65% of the population was going to the movies. Contrast that with today when only 23 million people got to the movies every week compared to a population of some 320 million people.
The ONLY reason Hollywood still makes money is jacked up ticket prices by push premiere formats like 3D and IMAX.
Interesting stats.
Seems like Hollywood is in its death throes.
Bump post 54 and a few cooments
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Modern films shot to make everything look gray or alternately everything look brown with lots of drab black mixed in. As ugly, colorless and run down and depressing looking as possible. It’s “arty” don’t ya know.
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Movie house owners in small towns across the land screwed over by the Hollywood greedsters to the point that they were driven out of business. Result is tens of millions of potential customers with no local venue who have a long trip to attend a movie.
Also, training the youth in those places to NOT get used to going to movies.
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Tens of thousands of original books and screenplays written but endless repeats of previously made films.
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Films shot for the big screen with TV camera techniques.