Saturday, March 11, 2006
Near Midnight Goat Droppings...
ITEM! From IMDB....
MPAA Confirms: It Was a Very Bad Year
The MPAA disclosed Thursday that Hollywood suffered its worst year at the box office in nearly a decade -- even as marketing costs soared, especially for small films. In its annual box-office marketing report, the MPAA said that the number of admissions dropped nearly 9 percent to 1.4 billion, the lowest number since 1997. The overseas box office also fell 9 percent, according to the report. Strikingly, the report noted hat the costs of marketing small specialty films increased 33 percent, rising to $15.2 million from $11.4 million the previous year. On the other hand, the average cost to produce a movie fell 19 percent to $23.5 million.
Hey, here's a hint. Make better movies.
Hollywood, a town that could screw up a slasher movie. You know, in the 70's, even the bad movies were at least entertaining, for the most part.
ITEM! From IMDB....
MPAA Confirms: It Was a Very Bad Year
The MPAA disclosed Thursday that Hollywood suffered its worst year at the box office in nearly a decade -- even as marketing costs soared, especially for small films. In its annual box-office marketing report, the MPAA said that the number of admissions dropped nearly 9 percent to 1.4 billion, the lowest number since 1997. The overseas box office also fell 9 percent, according to the report. Strikingly, the report noted hat the costs of marketing small specialty films increased 33 percent, rising to $15.2 million from $11.4 million the previous year. On the other hand, the average cost to produce a movie fell 19 percent to $23.5 million.
Hey, here's a hint. Make better movies.
Hollywood, a town that could screw up a slasher movie. You know, in the 70's, even the bad movies were at least entertaining, for the most part.
# posted by Doctor Lao @ 11:47 PM 
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I guess this partly answers my question from a previous post. So marketing costs are going up, but production costs are going down. In any case, audiences care less and less. Shall we start taking bets now on how big a flop the Miami Vice movie is going to be in these terms--huge production and marketing costs, not enough people coming to see it?
I think a big indicator will be how MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3 performs. I am curious to see how Hollywood will attepmt to rescue Tom's reputation. I defended him for a long time, but his rants about antidepressants just infuriated me. And they infuriated the rest of the country. I am curious to see how that goes.
MIAMI VICE. If Michael Mann can sustain his winning streak, maybe it won't be terrible. That's one of those DUKES OF HAZZARD-style movies that I just can't read in terms of market demand.
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MIAMI VICE. If Michael Mann can sustain his winning streak, maybe it won't be terrible. That's one of those DUKES OF HAZZARD-style movies that I just can't read in terms of market demand.
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