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2007-11-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Hollywood Movies Dying - Daily B.O. Chart

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-09 18:02|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 YOUTUBE and similar. As said long ago, TECH(S) INNOVATION > one day Big Theater/Cinemas will likely merge wid minicafes, bookstores, music and home videos, teleconferencing, etal.. BECOME ONE GIANT MULTI-PURPOSE, ALL-PURPOSE/SOURCE, MULTI-VIEWING/LISTENING/CONFAB, PERSONAL-GROUP ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNIC SERVICES BIZZZZZZNEZZZZ.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-09 18:27|| 2007-11-09 18:27|| Front Page Top

#2 saw American Gangster this week - really liked it - note those % (+/-) are daily Box Office $ - look for the number of theaters, total B.O. and what the movie's production budget was - Rendition is a (well-deserved) bomb - I hope all involved lose their anti- american asses. Critical reviews (likely better than audiences, given the critics' lib leanings) for Lions for Lambs (Redford's POS flick) are scathing - another box office nuke...heh

I really liked Redford back in the day....Jeremiah Johnson remains one of my top fives (and in my DVD library), The Sting, Butch Cassidy, et al...3 Days of the Condor (although a good movie) was the start of his spiral down the anti-american path IMNSHO

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-09 18:42|| 2007-11-09 18:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Hollywood style movies aren't dying. They will just become smaller, more CG and designed to go straight to DVD or streaming skipping the box office. I see it breaking up at first like ma bell, then merging into several large firms later.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-09 18:46|| 2007-11-09 18:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I was correct.

Posted by Norma Desmond 2007-11-09 18:59|| 2007-11-09 18:59|| Front Page Top

#5 American Gangster made me incredibly sad...watching Frank Lucas sell his people back into slavery.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-11-09 19:10|| 2007-11-09 19:10|| Front Page Top

#6 he didn't care about blacks, and ultimately he didn't care that he was bringing his own kin into a path to prison. True stories sting the worst, don't they?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-09 19:37|| 2007-11-09 19:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Hollywood will go into producing blockbusters primarily and distributing movies made by smaller companies rather than trying to compete against the smaller movies.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-11-09 21:18|| 2007-11-09 21:18|| Front Page Top

#8 For me to care Hollyweird and the MPAA's members products they would have to produce something worth the price of admission, they haven't in years and to get the hell out of lobbying Congress for laws to entrench and favor their business model. This combined with their support for politics I do not believe in means my money stays in my pocket and my eyes focused on other things.

The same goes for The RIAA and their members products.

Show business is bad for the US and civil liberties. "Hollywood" is bad news.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-11-09 22:10|| 2007-11-09 22:10|| Front Page Top

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