Box office declines even with Batman
Batman did incredible box office. I really like it, well done, but the film's performance failed to stop a long-term decline in box office takings in the US and Canada, --worst slump for 20 years!
The top 12 2005 films have registered a 1.6% downturn when compared to the same weekend in 2004.
An example of the sliding box office is Hilary Duff's just released film The Perfect Man which made less than half of her 2004 film A Cinderella Story.
The top 12 2005 films have registered a 1.6% downturn when compared to the same weekend in 2004.
An example of the sliding box office is Hilary Duff's just released film The Perfect Man which made less than half of her 2004 film A Cinderella Story.
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Well, Hollywood will JUST have to make more films that "ordinary people", namely the working class, and/or lower middle class (everyone in America seems to be supposed to think they're middle class!) find interesting...
More stuff with social issues, I daresay?
Or movies that make a metaphorical examination of such, and of world problems such as terrorism... I wonder if Spielberg's "The War of the Worlds" does that? I was going to see it in Britain yesterday, but (unwisely) decided to see the trashy movie "Sin City" (just change the "s" to a "b") which I KNEW I was going to hate; but which I wanted to see as a matter of interest, and they said it was the last day.
So, how did "War of the Worlds" fare at the US box office?? Spielberg is always a very good storyteller, and even a left-wing site I often frequent (which seems to hate most American mainstream movies!) gave it a semi-good review. "Better than Independence Day", it said. Well, that wouldn't be too difficult...
Did you know, David, by the way, that Britain seems to be the only Western nation in which movie attendance has gone up in recent months? It was more pronounced in the first quarter of the year. Now it's levelling off, to an increase of about 2 - 3%, whereas before the increase in moviegoing was 15%.
And apparently the dropoff has been largest in Germany, where moviegoing has gone down by 28% this year.
Well, seeing as so many movies nowadays ARE from Hollywood... could one interpret this as a disenchantment on the part of German citizens with America?
And could the "added support" from British consumers add up to a sort of - subconscious - re-alignment with the country of the 'special relationship'?
Don't get me wrong: I don't think Bush and Blair and their little love-in deserve any support... But maybe people in my country, Britain, just feel that inarticulated sympathy.
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