Thanks to movies like the Harry Potter series, Twilight and Hunger Games, young adult has become the hottest genre in Hollywood after superheroes. The films come with built-in audiences who gobbled up the books. They can often be made on relatively cheap budgets and they spawn lucrative sequels.
As a woman who loves superhero movies, I am very excited for the next Captain America movie, which opens April 4th. Not only does it look like it’s going to be an excellent throwback to the spy movies of the ’70s, but it prominently features Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow who first appeared in The Avengers Iron Man 2
In today’s Hollywood, business models are changing so quickly that it can be hard to keep up.
A while back, DVD companies hoping to sell their products in countries like Poland faced a dilemma. They could sell their products at a nice profit in the booming U.S. market, but to sell products in those other countries, they had to lower their prices. Such variable pricing is a common business practice. All kinds of services are less expensive in Poland than in the United States. An hour …
We’re closing in on the Christmas season, dear readers, and that means it’s time for one of my annual movie lists. So get ready to update your movie viewing plans, because I’m counting down the top ten Christmas movies of the last ten years!
I don’t feel like writing an essay on my favorite Thanksgiving movies (Home For The Holidays and Addams Family Values, natch) and my kids will probably be up by the time the Wednesday box office figures roll in (spoiler – Catching Fire and Frozen are doing really well). I’m instead offering this “timely” glance at, well, things to be thankful for specifically regarding the film industry at this …
Even in an ideal world, it would be hard to justify the valuation, but with declining margins and competition from Redbox, Amazon Prime, Microsoft?s Xbox, Hulu and others, Netflix simply has little chance at achieving the growth the market expects.
At the 2013 Film Independent Forum in Los Angeles, content guru Ted Sarandos sent a shot across the studio system’s bow. He wants the big guys to consider releasing major films on Netflix at the same time they release the movies in theaters.
Coming to Blu-Ray, DVD, and various VOD outlets Friday, October 25th from Warner Home Video.
The current trend in studio movies is all about superheroes and action stars. Hollywood releases these “tentpoles” (called that because they hold up the studios with all the money they make) on a regular basis during the summer and holiday seasons.