The Death Of Hollywood
A recent piece, The Inexplicable Suicide of Hollywood , inadvertently ties the disastrous underperformance of the two latest summer blockbusters together: Since starting this article, Hollywood has experienced a summer blockbuster phenomenon with the success of two thrillers, Obsession , an indie produced by a YouTuber making over $230 million on a budget of $750,000 and Backrooms , a larger indie distributed by A24 making $118 million on a $10 million budget and directed by twenty-year-old. Audiences showed up to theaters for these two movies while shunning a $165 million Disney Star Wars movie released at the same time. It looks like he submitted his piece before this past weekend's disappointment with Spielberg, which just reinforces his point. To be fair, there really isn’t one single cause, but the ones you don’t hear are probative. You’ll never hear that the content just sucks; that we just haven’t been producing entertainment that’s widely enjoyed. And that we’re wi...