“I’m very, very nervous for the future,” one top studio executive told the far-left Hollywood Reporter.
Okay, then, maybe make better movies, replied America.
“As the summer season wraps on Sept. 1, Hollywood is facing the worst-case scenario: May to Labor Day ticket sales in North America barely matched the $3.67 billion collected in 2024, even if the deficit was only $7 million,” reports THR. “All had assumed this year’s summer lineup would have the strength to equal or surpass the $4.09 billion grossed in summer 2023,” the report adds.
This summer’s box office has left “studio execs and exhibitors in a state of shock as they wrestle with how to operate in a new world order where moviegoing might never return to pre-COVID levels.”
One top studio executive said, “There are all these studios and companies making movies. I don’t think there is enough of an audience for them.”
“I don’t think the studio system will fill the gap that started from the pandemic,” said one CEO. “It’s not as mass a market anymore. It’s about an even smaller group of people going to the movies more often. So there’s a lot more streaming and watching at home.”
Yes, Virginia, they are still BLAMING COVID!
Other studio execs disagree. Instead, “they think the solution is more product delivered to their big screens.”
Only one summer movie passed the billion-dollar mark globally: Disney’s live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch. Other titles considered sure-fire hits — Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Superman, Thunderbolts, and Fantastic Four — all underperformed. The sycophants are aggressively trying to spin Superman into a hit, but $607 million global is nothing more than… fine.
The few bright spots are: Jurassic World: Rebirth ($874 million global); F1: The Movie ($607 million); Final Destination: Bloodlines ($287 million); and Weapons ($211 million and counting).
If COVID is still the problem, and the problem is not bad movies, sexless and obnoxious girlbosses, pedantic scripts that tell us what to think, gay stuff, and the deconstruction of our masculine heroes, why did Lilo & Stitch make over a billion dollars? Why did Jurassic World: Rebirth and Minecraft make nearly a billion dollars?
Why did 62-year-old Brad Pitt just deliver the biggest global hit of his career?
Why in the world did 50-year-old Jaws outperform two brand-spanking-new studio movies?
The problem is not COVID. The problem is not streaming or video games. Obviously, OBVIOUSLY, people still want to enjoy the theater experience. The problem IS that the studios are not delivering movies that appeal to us, that feel new, that gets us buzzing. Sex appeal would be a good place to start. Guys really do like to look at sexy women as they watch men go on adventures.
Simple solution: make movies for Normal People instead of theater kids, groomers, exhibitionists, and purple-haired harridans who buy boxed wine at Costco.
COVID is not the virus killing movies. The killer virus is woke.
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Jonathan Turley Explains Why Trump Will ‘Win Either Way’ In Chicago Crime Fight
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Tuesday President Donald Trump would “win either way” in fights over crime in Chicago.
Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated federal law by deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles amid rioting. Turley said that despite claims by Democrats, people, particularly on Chicago’s South Side, felt unsafe.
“It’s a bit of an anomaly. Frankly, this is part of the dynamics of this situation. I think President Trump realized he’s going to win either way,” Turley told “America Reports” guest co-host Gillian Turner. “He’s forcing these Democratic politicians to fight every effort of the feds to increase law enforcement efforts in their cities, in their state and that’s not good optics.”
“It plays well obviously for the sort of base of the Democratic Party but not for a lot of other people,” Turley continued. “Chicago is a good example of that. I’m from Chicago. I don’t know anyone that really feels safe in Chicago. Certainly not on the south side.”
Trump hinted at stepped-up federal enforcement efforts in Chicago in an Aug. 25 post on Truth Social, criticizing Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago. Johnson and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois have opposed proposals for increased federal enforcement, with Johnson signing an order prohibiting Chicago agencies from cooperating with any immigration enforcement efforts on Saturday.
Trump called up the National Guard and deployed Marines after rioting spread to multiple cities after initially flaring up in Los Angeles following a June enforcement operation by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Breyer said in his ruling that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and prohibited Trump from using the National Guard or military personnel for any law enforcement functions.
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