Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Publishers Than Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit Combined – There’s a new social media lesson for all of us that will now be pummeled into the ground in the news. A look at how Blockbusters are driving … Continue reading
Between Bruckheimer’s complaints and Depp and Hammer blaming critics, it appears a lot of people are not taking the failure of “Lone Ranger” very well. This is a reaction I’m not used to seeing since it sounds like it’ll only … Continue reading
Cracked continues to watch the potential Hollywood meltdown, and tags 2015 as the likely time it’ll go Kerflooie. This one’s actually pretty data-heavy, and they have a point that 2015 looks like it’s going to be Blockbuster Mania. As in … Continue reading
It seems like the last few weeks we’ve been discussing the potential of a Hollywood meltdown. Admittedly with Spielberg starts talking disaster, you listen. There’s plenty of comments on it, from our own Serdar to Cracked.com. So though I don’t … Continue reading
Lone Ranger joins some other poor-performing films. We’ve also had some real hits (Trek, etc.) and Despicable Me 2 did well (I would argue, personally, it quite deserved it). But it’s worth noting since we’ve been following a string of … Continue reading
Serdar’s latest post at his blog notes the issue of films being events – and the concern comes from none other than Gore Verbinski. He’s concerned films are events now, multiplatform ones, and Hollywood’s excesses are in trouble from expenses … Continue reading
Lynda Obst has an excerpt from her new book on how Hollywood is broken, which follows what we’ve been discussing here. The excerpt alone is informative and paints a workable theory about risk-adverse Hollywood since you can’t plan easily in an age … Continue reading
Steven Spielburg isn’t too hot on the film industry: “Eventually going to be an implosion — or a big meltdown. There’s going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen megabudget movies are going to … Continue reading
Tales From Development Hell (New Updated Edition): The Greatest Movies Never Made? By David Hughes ISBN-10: 0857687239 ISBN-13: 978-0857687234 PROS: An insider’s look at Hollywood’s movie machine and how it often takes years – or over a decade to make … Continue reading
Think about it. – Steven Savage … Continue reading