A brief list of things that allegedly "killed the film business"
- Edison's patent trolling "Trust", 1907
- the introduction of Broadcast radio, 1922
- the Great Depression, 1932
- the Hays code, 1934
- the commandeering of studios during WW2
- the Paramount decision, 1948
- wide adoption of broadcast television, 1953/55
- collapse of the studio system, 1963
- death of big budget musicals, 1968
- death of the Western genre, 1970
- VHS tapes, 1977
- Laserdisc, 1978
- Movies on cable TV / Showtime / HBO 1980
- wide adoption of video games, Atari 1983
- AOL / internet, 1995
- TOR and peer-to-peer file sharing / digital piracy 1999
- the rise of MCU, 2008
- "Woke", 2013
- SARS-Cov2, 2020
- AI, 2024
- Rachel Zeigler's 'Snow White' remake
And yet here we are. Goetz says "no hits" yet ?? One Battle $200M, Demon Slayer $730-million and last weekend alone "Now You See Me Now You Don't" did $75M
Goetz better push the book hard and fast because the weekend before Thanksgiving is the always the beginning of real movie season. Movies released this week take prime position for box office $$ and Oscar noms:
"Wicked For Good" opens this Friday 11/21. How much will it do? Well, Exactly one year prior, "Wicked" opened on 11/22/24 and raked in $758-million.
Spielberg's Shakespeare biopic fantasy "Hamnet" likewise opens 11/21. Many others are cued up.
The box office failure of a Julia Roberts film that scored a "C-" from audiences and a 37% from critics is meaningless. Hardly "the end of Hollywood!!1!"