Comment Too little, too late (Score 1) 152
That won't help. Showing ads on tv is killing broadcast, it's hurting Amazon when frustrated users decide to torrent their shows rather than sit through commercials, ads will kill the streaming industry, too.
So, fuck Hollywood. At least until they start making a wider variety of movies and not the same fucking remakes, reboots, sequels, and assembly-line franchise films.
There are thousands and thousands of really great movies made prior to this year.
Hollywood isn't interested in delivering anything new and theaters don't give a damn as long as they can keep slamming you with ads. Hollywood wants some formula to bring in ticket sales without providing new and reasonably entertaining content. It won't happen.
What will happen, is that fewer and fewer people will buy tickets and more and more people will view/acquire the film from other sources. The tech to find and download films has never been simpler to use, making it accessible even for non-techies
Ticket sales are bullshit, anyway. They are not an indicator of a movie's success. Not when tickets are $10 and more.
If they want to impress people, then they should release per capita viewing data, how many of 100,000 people actually bought a ticket. Then you'll see how well the thing is in relation to other movies from the past.
Want an example? Gone with the Wind sold approximately 15,152 tickets per 100,000 people. While Iron Man, on the other hand, managed 821 tickets per 100000 people.
821 versus 15,152...
So, which movie was more popular? Not the pop/fad bullshit film, that's for certain.
People aren't going to movies because the films are good, they're going because they're conditioned to go to a theater to see a good movie, totally ignoring tens of thousands of excellent films - By actors with more than just gossip sheet popularity.
Hollywood should be Hollywouldn't (look at a new idea if it was chewing off their faces).