{"id":4567,"date":"2015-04-13T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2015-03-26T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:41:04","slug":"linked-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-hollywood-film-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/linked-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-hollywood-film-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The rise and rise of the Hollywood film franchise&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/192f583e-7fa7-11e4-adff-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3VV8LRWd5\">via FT.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Obst produced Interstellar, alongside Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, one of 2014\u2019s rare original hits. She says technological change and the rise of the international market are to blame for the proliferation of so-called \u201ctentpoles\u201d \u2014 big-budget franchise movies that generate so much revenue they can support a studio\u2019s entire year of production. \u201cStudio profits used to be generated by DVDs, which financed the original movies,\u201d she explains. But DVD sales have fallen precipitously \u2014 \u201cobliterated by new technology\u201d, as Obst puts it \u2014 and studio profits now come increasingly from outside the US, in booming multiplex markets such as China, which is adding more than 10 screens a day. \u201cYou can\u2019t make movies the same way internationally as you do in the US,\u201d Obst says. \u201cYou can\u2019t pay for television advertising in every city in the world, so you become dependent on pre-awareness of the movie.\u201d How do studios create this pre-awareness? They make sequels \u2014 and lots of them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interstellar was the only movie I saw in theatres last year that truly was memorable. I haven\u2019t seen a \u2018franchise\u2019 or sequel in theatres since Hunger Games Part 2 with Elizabeth. Looking at this year\u2019s blockbuster releases (aka high budget), there isn\u2019t a single movie I\u2019ll see in a theatre this year. I\u2019ve already stopped watching Marvel \/ DC movies after the last Batman was released. I can\u2019t be alone in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via FT.com: Obst produced Interstellar, alongside Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, one of 2014\u2019s rare original hits. 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That\u2019s not great. And what\u2019s worse is that they haven\u2019t announced a new original film since 2012 (when they first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6897,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/linked-netflixs-dvd-subscription-is-still-great-dammit\/","url_meta":{"origin":4567,"position":3},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Netflix\u2019s DVD Subscription Is Still Great, Dammit&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium: I pay for cable and Netflix. I, ahem, \u201chave access\u201d to Amazon Prime and the quartet of premium cable movies channels (HBO\/Starz\/Cinemax\/Showtime). There\u2019s probably a Redbox on my porch fully loaded with copies of Trolls. Hulu\u2019s library is garbage; nobody needs Hulu. Yet the best content* service in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4462,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/02\/03\/linked-the-future-of-cinema\/","url_meta":{"origin":4567,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Future of Cinema&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via MG Siegler on Medium: (Why doesn\u2019t he host his own blog?) 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. 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As of March 23, 2016, they offer just 4,335 movies and 1,197 TV shows \u2013 5,532 titles in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}