Tag Archives: Hollywood
Hollywood On The Ropes
Problems On The Horizon I stumbled upon this interesting article that talks about how Hollywood is narrowing and therefore shrinking in significance. A generation of directors who thought they owned the business as kids in the 1970s had to decide … Continue reading
The World Wide Cinema
Hollywood’s Stake In It Here’s The Economists’ take on the globalisation of distribution as seen from a Hollywood perspective. The success of a film outside America is not purely a marketing matter. As foreign box-office sales have become more important, … Continue reading
Blockbuster Saturation
Lemmings At The Cliff I’ve been saying for a while that the movie business has got some fundamental problems that is making it unsustainable, and that we may see the end of Hollywood as we know it. Apparently I’m not … Continue reading
Cinema In Retreat
Another One Bites The Dust Caught this story in the SMH this morning. THE closure of the Greater Union cinema in Mosman comes as further proof of troubles in the Australian film industry. While local filmmakers find it difficult to … Continue reading
Film Industry Swings And Misses
iiNet Court Case The other news of the day of course it how iiNet beat the rap and won their case against them alleging that they were responsible for their clients’ piratical downloading behaviour. The Australian film and television industry … Continue reading
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Generations
The Demographics Say Cinema Declines Pleiades sent me an article from the Financial Review about the decline of Hollywood. Hollywood is facing 2 problems at once. The first problem is that it can no longer secure capital to make films … Continue reading
Pricing Cinema
What It Looks Like From Outside The Biz Here’s an article that shares some insight from what the non-film making portion of the population feels about the pricing of cinema tickets in Australia. Imagine what the cinema industry could do … Continue reading
‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
Nostalgia In Reverse I would have loved to have done a movie double of this film with either ‘The Aviator’ to talk about the amazing Cate Blanchett, or ‘Burn After Reading’ to talk about the versatility of Brad Pitt. Both … Continue reading
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