Nolte: Movie Box Office Bottoms Out to Three-Year Low
Breitbart,
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John Nolte
Original Article
Posted By: Chris Jr.,
7/3/2019 4:41:12 PM
Hollywood is so far having a terrible, no good, very bad 2019 with its worst box office performance in three years.
Currently, box office receipts are lagging behind last year by a full ten percent, and around half a percent behind 2017 and 2016.
One more flop and 2019 could easily slip behind 2015.
What should terrify the movie business all the more is that things are even worse than they seem, because…
There is only one studio holding up the year and that’s Disney, which is responsible for 2019’s top four money makers:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/3/2019 4:46:04 PM (No. 113241)
Make more PC statements you numbskulls!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
coyote 7/3/2019 5:20:52 PM (No. 113288)
Hollywood is pretty much incapable of making anything but cartoons. Serious drama is out. I liked Superman and Spiderman when I was 10, but that was then, this is now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/3/2019 5:43:22 PM (No. 113318)
When movies all go 100% CGI, there'll be no Academy Awards anti-American political speeches and no more spoiled movie 'Stars!'
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
davew 7/3/2019 6:04:06 PM (No. 113338)
There actually are intelligent, innovative, and artistically stunning movies being made by independent small filmmakers they just don't get seen by many people because of the economics of movie theaters. One recent example was Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre's "The Mustang". The theater where I saw it was packed with seniors like myself and my wife who only go to matinees when the prices are lower. There are also outstanding films produced by Netflix like "Roma", and "The Highwaymen" that would never appeal to a millennial audience willing to pay $18 or more for an evening show. Good films are no longer profitable so the studios fall back on tired franchise sure bets that avoid any financial risk to their celebrity lifestyle. Their glory days may be ending soon.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/3/2019 6:09:03 PM (No. 113340)
As my kids say, what's a box office? I have 25 Democrats providing free entertainment and I don't even have to pick one of them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
web 7/3/2019 6:21:10 PM (No. 113350)
My wife and I haven't been out to the movies since the 80s, when our town still had a drive-in. There are very few movies these days that we wish to watch, and I rent them from Redbox if it looks interesting. The Marvel Avengers movies are interesting, with lots of action, but the actors who are flaming liberals are idiots. Hollywood is pretty much just a leftist propaganda mill, as are TV and newspapers. They are all so busy virtue signaling to each other that they've forgotten the country that made it possible for them to be rich and famous. I hope Hollywood dies an agonizing death and they can all return to what they are qualified for, such as waiting tables.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 7/3/2019 7:13:55 PM (No. 113408)
The ticket-buying public has had its fill of remakes, reboots, and sequels.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 7/3/2019 7:53:44 PM (No. 113446)
I don't go to movies. It's a waste of time and money. I'm not turning my brain over to fed liberal garbage. It would forever be in my subconscious. I'm guarding my brain.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 7/3/2019 9:13:10 PM (No. 113499)
Sorry. Disney might be making money on some of the Marvel movies, but the PC trend of making women into warriors is really bad for the culture. A 110 pound woman pounding the life out of a 200 pound man is an insane fabrication. And, exposure to women inflicting and absorbing violence will lead to a common perception that violence against women is OK - after all, they can take it and dish it out, can't they?
Finishing up my rant, Disney is engaged in endless remakes of classic movies - and the remakes are much worse than the originals. Look at "Pete's Dragon" and "Jungle Book". The remakes were altogether forgettable!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 7/3/2019 9:28:08 PM (No. 113512)
I doubt they will recognize the reasons for this, being as stupid as they are...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 7/3/2019 9:51:20 PM (No. 113529)
I am not going to pay money to be preached to about social tolerance, and to have my face stuffed full of sneaky not-so subliminal messages about who and what I am supposed to approve of and disapprove of. I also dont like having characters changed to reflect the sex or orientation de jour.
I stay home and watch old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 7/3/2019 10:08:29 PM (No. 113545)
No problem... They'll just raise admission prices.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/3/2019 11:58:00 PM (No. 113608)
Re #11. Indeed....mostly preaching and propaganda. I would like to think that’s what’s dragging them down but it’s more likely a combination of really crapola movies and the rise of streaming. I have no interest in going to some poorly scripted film and being told I am some hayseed deplorable. The last film I saw in a theater was Apollo 13. I will never go back.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Penney 7/4/2019 12:03:42 AM (No. 113610)
So PC hollyweird is spiraling down? That trend is so richly deserved!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/4/2019 12:10:52 AM (No. 113612)
I have all of the old Laurel and Hardy movies and that's what my 13 yr. old grand girls want to watch when they visit. They've seen them all and stillll want to watch them over and over. We also love the old Roadrunner cartoons, and anything with Bugs Bunny, Foghorn P. Leghorn or Yosemite Sam.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 7/4/2019 8:41:43 AM (No. 113852)
When I was very young, I read a story about a spaceship under an apple tree. I vividly remember that at some point, I was no longer consciously aware that I was reading a book. Instead, I was inside the story, and it was happening to me. Many years later I read a novel about a Martian named Smith and something similar happened. I was a cynical teenager by then, and it was very difficult for me to lose myself inside a story. I was just grateful that it was still possible.
We live in an era of disbelief. And now that I am old, those moments have become even more rare and all the more precious because of it. Nolte correctly notes that Marvel's Avengers: Endgame deserves both its critical praise and its box office earnings. It is a capstone to 10 years of vividly-realized, inter-connected story telling.
On a personal level, I went into the theater cynically expecting to be disappointed and was instead transfixed for three hours. Those of us who enjoy the Marvel movies, and I am one of many, have become invested in these characters over time. Endgame repays that investment with interest. As one of my young nephews said to me, "I'm just grateful that it's possible for a movie like this to exist."
So am I.
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