Hollywood is closing out 2019 on a sour note thanks to a new report showing that North American ticket sales fell an estimated 3.6 percent in 2019 compared to last year, the largest percentage drop in five years.
With rare exceptions, if it bombs in America, it will bomb overseas. And so, unless intelligent life is found on another planet sometime soon, there is no place for the studios to peddle their garbage.
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,
The fact that “Toy Story” is in its fourth chapter and over-performing its predecessors is pretty amazing. Unfortunately, all this wishcasting about breaking the $180 to $200 million mark dimmed an otherwise stellar debut.
Woke-comedies are dying at the box office while the tried-and-true Adam Sandler breaks Netflix viewing records, and… The utterly useless Hollywood Reporter is blaming this death of comedy at the box office on everything but what is actually causing the
This year might not be that catastrophic year, but as the golden geese continue to die off, you can bet that year will arrive sooner rather than later.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brand familiarity isn’t everything when it comes to attracting audiences to the multiplex, and Hollywood is learning that lesson the hard way this summer with a slew of underperforming sequels and reboots. That so-called franchise fatigue came to a head this weekend with the releases of “Men in Black: International” and “Shaft.”
Rogen should look into hosting the Mid-Daily Show on Comedy Central, or something — you know, something that can still be spun as a hit even if only 13 people tune in.
We are nearly four month into the year and there have only been two breakout hits: Captain Marvel and the horror film Us. Thus far, 2019’s box office has been a five-alarm disaster.
The reason people are no longer purchasing movies at anywhere near the numbers they once did is because movies today mostly suck.
There is also no question that a whole host of titles, product that looked sure-fire on paper, have already under-performed.
Even though the film industry will close 2018 with record box office receipts, that might not necessarily mean more people went to the movies. Nevertheless, a win is a win is a win, and Hollywood will celebrate that win. But 2018 might be remembered as a perfect storm that will be difficult to repeat.
Movie attendance for the summer of 2018 at the box office is the second worst in 25 years.
Stock in Helios and Matheson, the company that owns the movie subscription service MoviePass, is now trading at 13 cents per share, which is a 99.99 percent collapse year-to-date.
Shock and Awe director Rob Reiner has now directed six mega-flops in a row and has not had anything approaching a hit since 2007.
With no serious competition opening at the box office, Solo has officially collapsed with a catastrophic -68 percent drop in its second weekend. After grossing a measly (we are talking about a Star Wars movie here) $82 million in its debut weekend, Solo bottomed out in week two with just $28 million.
Disney murdered the Muppets with left-wing politics, and now the studio is allowing Kathleen Kennedy to kill Star Wars — a franchise that was once so bullet-proof and buried in audience goodwill, it survived the Lucas prequels.
Solo is not collapsing at this weekend’s domestic and international box office over some exotic disease known as Star Wars Fatigue. Solo is crash-landing because the franchise has been infected with divisive left-wing politics that have hurt the storytelling.
With the flopping of ‘I Feel Pretty,’ Amy Schumer’s movie career is now in serious trouble with three flops in a row. Here are six reasons why her movie tanked.
Hollywood is suffering one of the worst domestic March downturns in its recent history, according to the latest box office figures.
Powered in equal parts by stars Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon along with Walt Disney’s mighty publicity machine, director Ana Duvernay’s Wrinkle In Time debuted to an anemic $33 million over the weekend.
Jennifer Lawrence’s big-budget Red Sparrow is under-performing big time at the box office. Already- modest predictions called for a $20 million opening. As of now, it looks like $17 million, which is a disaster.
Although the left-wing actor is only 56, George Clooney sounds like he is ready to quit acting because he is too old.
No fewer than four multimillion dollar wide releases dropped into your local multiplex this weekend. Not counting promotional expenses, we have the $38 million Only the Brave, the $35 million The Snowman, and the $120 million(!) Geostorm. Walloping all of them at the box office, is Tyler Perry’s $25 million Boo 2: A Madea Halloween.
Naturally, regardless of what happens, no one in Hollywood or the Hollywood media will have the moral courage to speak the truth out loud, to admit that Lawrence’s bigotry and venom has in any way damaged her box office appeal.
Even before this catastrophic Labor Day weekend is factored in (more on this below), the domestic 2017 box office is in hideous shape. This year is -6.3% behind 2016 and continues to fall behind 2015, 2013, and 2012.
Can five titles — It, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Justice League and Thor: Ragnarok — save Hollywood? Because it ain’t just the summer stinking up the 2017 box office. After a dismal second quarter, the third-quarter box office is expected to collapse -21% when compared to last year. That is six months of fail, folks — and now theater chain stocks are crashing, even as the stock market itself enjoys a bull market.
Moviegoers wary of endless sequels have sent early-summer Hollywood box office revenue tumbling down 22 percent over the same time period last year.
