Told Ya So
Blue Crab Boulevard always tries to give good advice on any subject. (We’re not saying our advice necessarily IS good, just that we TRY.)
We gave a bit of advice to Hollywood just a short while ago. When some studio honchos started pitching reducing the time between theatrical release and DVD release to shore up falling box office totals, we advised them to instead make movies people actually WANT to see. Instead of movies that self-appointed, pompous, left-wing propagandists think you SHOULD see.
It’s nice when life proves our advice to have been correct. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ice Age: The Meltdown. In it’s first weekend of theatrical release, the movie grossed over $70 million dollars. Which about equals the (months long) total box office for the "important" movie we heard about over and over and over and over until we wanted to kill any sheepherders, gay or otherwise.
Told Ya.
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By Black Jack, Monday, 3 April , 2006 @ 12:15 pm
But, on the other hand:
Note the efforts to supress the movie about Flight 93. The dissemblers are out in force and the caterwauling is front and center.
By Gauis Arbo, Monday, 3 April , 2006 @ 1:14 pm
Well, money talks in Hollyweird. After a while the studios are going to say “make money or go somewhere else.”
One can but hope.
By Black Jack, Monday, 3 April , 2006 @ 6:10 pm
“make money or go somewhere else.â€
Permit me to doubt. Detroit’s auto makers refused to respond to market forces, MSM is face to face with declining subscriptions, falling ad revenues, layoffs, and phony circulation numbers, the networks can’t keep up with cable, and Hollywood has refused to see the light.
I submit, the evidence for your contention is lacking. I’d like to think if only we give it a little more time, the market will prevail, but so far, I don’t see it. I’ll grant that eventually the market will force changes, but it seems to me that will only happen when new leaders are in control of policy and operations.
By Gauis Arbo, Monday, 3 April , 2006 @ 6:46 pm
Well, it does sometimes take a trainwreck to get people to focus. Hollyweird will have to see that eventually. Or go broke.