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- Rotten Tomatoes Is Broken As A Way Of Measuring Movie Opinion. Critic and audience reviews have been key to gauging a movie's success for decades. Countless movies have bombed at the box office but have pulled off spectacular reviews, and vice versa.
- Major Hollywood Award Shows Are Becoming Less Relevant. It's common to hear the phrase "Oscar buzz" when a film performs well on its opening weekend, and once upon a time, this really meant something.
- Massive Filming Budgets Set The Bar Too High. It's amazing what Hollywood can pull off compared to the past. Movies like Avatar: The Way of Water demonstrated what expensive technology can do, and several other high-budget films have had similar success.
- Movie & TV Shows Getting Canceled Has Become A Bigger Issue. From beginning to end, films and TV shows cost a lot of money to make. Unfortunately, there is not much guarantee that this money will ever be made back.
- Where are the blockbusters? If you own a movie theater, it’s looking pretty scary out there. COVID’s lingering impact coupled with months of strikes have disrupted the production schedule for major films, leaving studios without a compelling slate of blockbusters.
- Will Disney get its groove back? Not so long ago, all was right in the Magic Kingdom. Marvel was the envy of the movie biz, “Star Wars” had been rebooted, the theme parks lured families from around the world and Disney+ seemed like a potential Netflix killer.
- What will happen to late-night television? It isn’t just democracy that hangs in the balance. The fate of late-night TV could hinge on the upcoming election cycle, and whether talkers still have an impact on political discourse.
- Can the concert ticketing conundrum be solved? During the week of Dec. 4, two bills were introduced in Congress to curb the excesses of the ticketing market, which has seen prices soar into five figures for concerts by Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé and, of course, Taylor Swift.
Jun 12, 2024 · Beyond the financial blows inflicted by the pandemic and the actors’ and writers’ strikes, the vast Los Angeles-based entertainment industry known as Hollywood is facing the far greater forces...
Dec 27, 2023 · Fears, Hopes and Megadeals: Hollywood’s New Year’s Burning Questions From Paramount and Disney to AI and M&A, here's what's top of mind for The Town. By Alex Weprin
- Alex Weprin
May 23, 2024 · The film industry is shrinking—by revenue, volume, value and old fashioned chutzpah. Fewer major players are releasing a smaller number of titles for a shrinking revenue pie.
May 21, 2024 · A full year after Hollywood screenwriters kicked off six months of strikes that effectively shuttered the film and TV business in the U.S., the people who make Tinseltown function are still...
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Apr 25, 2024 · Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flux. Harpers journalist Daniel Bessner says TV and film writers are feeling the brunt of the...
