America loves The Lorax (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
box office
question of the day: Are the Oscars an ever clearer indication that Hollywood *knows* it makes crap?
Because the divide between the movies Hollywood makes for popular consumption are increasingly not the ones Hollywood honors as quality work…
question of the day: Would a coupon deal get you to a multiplex to see a movie you wouldn’t otherwise see?
It seems a Groupon deal did get some folks in the U.S. out to see One for the Money who might not otherwise have gone…
question of the day: Should we applaud successful movie marketing when the movie being marketed is a stinker?
I’m angry as a filmgoer, and on behalf of all those filmgoers who plunked down for a ticket to The Devil Inside this weekend and then felt like they’d been ripped off.
The Exorcist (retro trailer)
Does this seem so terrifying that it could not be seen by human eyes?
question of the day: What is the magic equation to gets people to go to the movies… or to stay away?
Or, why we probably shouldn’t be too excited that New Year’s Eve flopped…
question of the day: After ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Twilight,’ will we see more movies broken up into multiple installments?
Could Hollywood only get away with such a split when there is an existing and enthusiastic fanbase? Are these splits anything other than moneygrabbing on the studios’ part, a means to get twice the ticket sales out of fans?
question of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?
Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Captain America, etc. This is what 2011 looks like at the movies. In what way can it be construed that young men are “endangered” at the box office?
must reads: “The Formula for Complete and Utter Bayhem”
The secrets behind Michael Bay’s success are precisely what we thought…
deep thought (re ‘Paranormal Activity 3’)
I wonder if everyone who went to see Paranormal Activity 3 this weekend mistakenly thought they were going to an Occupy Hollywood protest…
