As a result you may see studios open fewer movies in the coming weeks, just because it's very difficult to market them. |
Bottom line: Hollywood is worried. Nobody wants to see this really healthy industry ... just put flat on its back. |
could see these pictures go to $100 million or more worldwide. |
Crash provided jobs for actors and other LA-based workers, who are increasingly frustrated by runaway productions that travel to far-flung locations. Moreover, because Crash was a story dealing with complex racial relations in Los Angeles, it was something that LA-based Academy members could easily relate to. |
I think in troubled times, we're going to see the same genre that worked during the depression -- comedy. People need to escape, they need to laugh, they need to forget the grim realities of the world. Comedies are going to become king at the box office. |
in Hollywood terms, (that's) small change. |
It hasn't been a great year so far for Universal -- that's no surprise at this point. But the fourth quarter has a number of major releases that the studio is very hopeful about. |
It's very hard to open a movie, |
On TV, where you have the miniseries form which allows a long time to develop and deal with a story that's complicated, perhaps the material is better served by that form. |
This summer is off to a fabulous start. People thought it was going to be dominated exclusively by 'Star Wars.' It turns out there are a number of hits in the marketplace. The marketplace expanded, Star Wars is doing great, but there are a lot of other hits that are playing in theaters now. |
To this point, the few films that have focused on the issue of slavery have not performed well at the box office, |
What's especially important is that it comes on a non-summer, non-holiday, non-weekend day. It's a plain-old Wednesday in mid-May -- that's not bad business. |
When they're breaking for basketball games, ... you know that it's not (going) too, too badly. |