“The last decade has witnessed the studios’ gradual and nearly complete abandonment of the adult audience. You may or may not trust anyone over 30, but the reality is that getting people in that age group into movie theaters on a regular basis has become too herculean a task for Hollywood to attempt on a … Continue reading “Why The Movie Industry Is A Mess”
“The bigger the slate, the better the odds for profit. The five-film slate had a net loss of $94 million. The 10-film slate had almost $140 million in profit, while the 15-film slate had $466.4 million in profit. The study, which used a time frame of 12 years to determine the results, assumed 8% in … Continue reading “Study: Movie Industry Shouldn’t Cut Back In Bad Times”
“Many are struggling amid a sharp drop in local film and TV production triggered by the recession, a rise in runaway production, and the fallout from a writer’s strike and a yearlong contract dispute between studios and the Screen Actors Guild. According to the state Employment Development Department, jobs in movie and television production were … Continue reading “LA Movie Industry Workers Struggle As Shooting Moves Elsewhere”
“Like a director who has just been told that his ambitious movie project must be scaled back, the Hollywood trade association recently took a big hit when its member studios cut as much as 20%, or about $20 million, from its budget, leading to staff layoffs in Los Angeles and Washington.”
“Previous attempts by [Governor Arnold] Schwarzenegger to secure such credits have been torpedoed by lawmakers who viewed them as a handout to Hollywood. But those arguments weakened amid mounting evidence that other states were poaching jobs from Southern California.”
“For me, commercial means we are going to find an audience for our films. That people are going to want to pay to see our movies. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.”
“Adult DVD sales have slumped 10%-30% this year due to a massive shift by consumers to online content, and companies aren’t making up the lost coin on porn streamed over computers. Short clips are available for free or as little as 8¢ or 10¢ a minute online, and porn producers often get only a tiny … Continue reading “Does Slump In Adult DVD Sales Portend Bad News For Movie Industry?”
“We also have to admire the MPAA’s arrogance. The MPAA now asserts that college students account for 15 percent rather than 44 percent of the P2P piracy affecting the motion picture industry. However the press release says nothing — not a word — about the source of the other ’85 percent’ of the P2P piracy … Continue reading “Movie Industry Goofed On College Downloading (So Where’s The Apology?)”
“According to the cinema monitoring company Auditel, the 120 million ticket mark was passed Sunday(Dec. 16), breaking the modern-era record set in 1986. In Italy, the modern era is the period that started in the 1970s, after television had become popular.”
Hollywood is agressively fighting illegal downloads. But isn’t this counter-productive? “Will Hollywood adapt and survive, or will it continue to escalate its apparently futile battle against the collective intelligence of a million resourceful and highly motivated computer geeks worldwide? (The kind of people who recently unlocked the supposedly resilient copy protection on Hollywood’s new HD … Continue reading “Tough Lessons For The Movie Industry”
