{"id":4462,"date":"2015-02-03T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2015-01-29T18:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T18:26:53","slug":"linked-the-future-of-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/02\/03\/linked-the-future-of-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The Future of Cinema&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/five-hundred-words\/the-future-of-cinema-2e0240d83507\">via MG Siegler on Medium:<\/a> (Why doesn\u2019t he host his own blog?)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Attendance is never the number Hollywood touts because it\u2019s never very impressive. It goes up slightly some years and some years it goes down a bit. Instead, they focus on \u201cbox office\u201d which is a fancy term for revenue. But it\u2019s also bullshit, because never explicity stated when touting \u201cbox office records\u201d is that ticket prices increase each year. And more recently, 3D and IMAX have added substantially to the price of a ticket. In other words, they\u2019re always juicing the numbers. This is the steroid era of Hollywood.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I enjoyed this post start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of a point I\u2019ve been thinking of lately but never enough substance to warrant me writing an entire entry &#8211; the fact that very few movies over the next 3 years will drive me to visit a theatre. The movies with the highest budgets, best effects and star actors are \u00a0<em>reboots, sequels, prequels,\u00a0comic book adaptations and lots of explosions<\/em>. I love film. While living in SF, I would see over 5 movies a month in theatres. There was a time where I spent all day at the theatre every Sunday. I loved it. While I\u2019ve been to 5 movies in 2014 at a cinema, that number will further drop. Most of the reason is that fact that the nearest digital theatre is 1.5 hours away but also because very few movies are exciting anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via MG Siegler on Medium: (Why doesn\u2019t he host his own blog?) 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