With five days left in 2011, ticket sales in North America are running about $500 million behind last year — despite higher prices — prompting a round of soul searching by studios trying to determine what went wrong and how best to proceed.
... What has gone wrong? Plenty, say studio distribution executives, who point to competition for leisure dollars, particularly among financially pressed young people (the movie industry’s most coveted demographic); too many family movies; and the continued erosion of star power.
One more thing: “You have to go back and look at the content,” said Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution for Warner Brothers. “Good movies always rise to the occasion. Bad ones, not so much.”
... “There may be a correlation to the recent strength of video game sales,” he said. “You look at a game like the new ‘Call of Duty’ selling $400 million in its first 24 hours and say, ‘What? How is that even possible?’ ”MAYBE IF HOLLYWOOD STOPPED MAKING ANTI-AMERICAN ANTI-WEST CRAP = AND IF ITS "STARS" STOPPED BASHING AND/OR APOLOGIZING-FOR THE USA - THEY'D DO AS WELL AS THE GAMES.
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EXACTLY RIGHT. I don't even want to watch movies on Netflix or on a TV channel with some of the leftist craphounds who give money to Obama and make insane statements about things they know nothing about. Between that and the horrible quality of the movies anyway...I'd rather watch old classics and not spend my money at the theater.
How many movies were made that were anti-American during the Bush years, NONE of which really made money. They flushed millions down the hole with these agitprop films that satisfied their elitist egos and drew no one to the box office.
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