Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers
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Bruce's words from his latest prediction article...
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In short, things don’t look great going into the “height of Summer.” A few million more might come from returning movies being helped by the holiday weekend. This is something that the model doesn’t adjust for over Memorial Day, because the strong competition generally doesn’t help returning films. This year might well be an exception to that rule.
We should cruise past $100 million over the three-day portion of the weekend, but this will almost certainly be the worst Memorial Day weekend of the 21st century, outside the pandemic era.
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Trouble comes for Blade remake, Snow White....we may never get to see its so bad Disney says it would rather burn it all, also The Crow remake, Star Wars remake, Mad Max remake, Nosferatu remake, Romeo and Juliet remake, Avatar remake, Greenland remake, Heat 2 remake, The Fantastic Four remake, Superman remake, Mean Girls remake, Garfield remake, Twisters remake.
some projects could be delayed pushed until; year 2025 or 2026
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KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 72.7M overseas | 141.5M worldwide
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/31999-kingdom-of-the-planet-o
f-the-apes-727m-overseas-1415m-worldwide/
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Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ directed by Iranian Swedistani multiple citizenship American Ali Abbasi who also directed episodes of the first season of the homosexual video game tv series The Last of Us, Germany, Israel, France and Shitcago International Film Festival have been fawning over him for years. Some Canada Ireland Denmark company funded its production.
sue art and speech? Trumped wanted to stop it
box office?
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some others from previous years 'The 355' an American action film
Universal Pictures
https://web.archive.org/web/20220109015559/https://deadline.com/2022/0
1/weekend-box-office-spider-man-no-way-home-the-355-1234906089/
Amsterdam mystery comedy thriller
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/david-o-russell-amsterdam-reviews-b
ad-buzz-box-office-taylor-swift-1235385300/
Haunted Mansion Walt Disney Pictures / Rideback
https://web.archive.org/web/20230729155341/https://deadline.com/2023/0
7/barbie-oppenheimer-second-weekend-box-office-haunted-mansion-1235450156/
Wish
https://web.archive.org/web/20230802200901/https://www.thewrap.com/fla
sh-elemental-box-office-flops-analysis-pixar-dc/
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Hollywood crews are unemployed, fear LA's production decline - Los Angeles Times
By Kaitlyn Huamani | May 28, 2024, 3 AM PT
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-28/h
ollywood-crew-unemployed-fewer-jobs-la-production-decline
After more than two decades in the industry, Keith Dunkerley still loves nothing more than working on a set. The 47-year-old director of photography and camera operator, who’s had consistent work since he moved to Los Angeles 23 years ago, said his is “the best job in the world.”
Since the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year and the slow restart of production, though, Dunkerley said his work opportunities look quite different than in past years: He has worked only 18 days during the first five months of 2024.
“People outside the business don’t understand this is not a factory,” Dunkerley said. “It’s not like, ‘OK, the strike’s over, go back to the factory, turn the lights on and get the machines going.’ A lot of us knew it’s going to take some time to ramp things up.”
While Dunkerley supported his family through savings and odd jobs as a handyman on TaskRabbit during the strikes, the sluggish rebound has been difficult for him. He’s recently made more than 60 calls to friends and industry contacts to look for prospects.
What Dunkerley is experiencing is a part of the massive ripple effect of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that is still affecting tens of thousands of people working in entertainment and adjacent industries. Crew members, especially, have been hit hard.
“I am currently in the worst place I’ve ever been in my entire life financially,” said Heather Fink, a boom operator and director. “The industry is in a crisis. It is not back to normal. We are in debt.”
Heather Fink, in a white tank top and headphones, holds a boom mic on set.
Heather Fink has been working in sound departments consistently for 14 years, but she said the strikes left her financially vulnerable. “There’s simply not enough work out there,” she said.
(John Ales)
FilmLA, a nonprofit that tracks on-location permitting in the city, released a report in April that revealed a slow bounceback in production after the dual strikes. Local on-location filming in the first quarter of the year was down 8.7% from the first quarter of 2023. Television production was especially impacted, with production falling 16.2% from last year.
Paul Audley, the president of FilmLA, said these findings are startling when considering that film and television production saw a “retraction” at the start of 2023 in anticipation of the looming writers’ strike.
“What we’re facing is a combination of effects of the studios, as well as the streamers, cutting back not only the number of series they produced but in some cases the number of episodes they’re producing for shows,” Audley said.
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With scarce work opportunities, many crew members are concerned about how they will maintain their health insurance, which is often directly tied to the number of hours they work. Those who have coverage with the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans must work 400 hours in a six-month period to maintain their insurance. Many veteran crew members, like hairstylist and department head Jason Orion, who’s worked on shows including “Grey’s Anatomy,” said he has never been close to losing his coverage until now.
Orion was able to keep his health insurance thanks to a job on “9-1-1.” He said because he worked down to the wire before the 2007-08 writers’ strike, he thought he’d be busy until the strikes officially began. In reality, he had “an almost nonexistent beginning of 2023.” Even the shows and films shooting in L.A. now have slashed many departments, he added, noting sets that historically employed 20 hairstylists now have just two or three.
Orion said “9-1-1” was a “very hard show,” noting that crew member Rico Priem recently died in a car accident after pulling a 14-hour overnight shift. “We were all tired,
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more trouble
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA?
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/32293-furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/
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Quote:This movie was not profitable. She Came to Me: Worldwide Box Office $784,527
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
more trouble
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/She-Came-to-Me-(2023)#tab=summary
"When Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei are knocking on your screen, you can't say no. The stars justify watching it, just for the sake of watching them get nuts (especially Anne Hathaway in one unforgettable scene), but you will probably forget about it an hour or two after watching it, though it is not so bad."
https://yts.mx/movies/she-came-to-me-2023
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Hollywood crews are unemployed, fear LA's production decline - Los Angeles Times
By Kaitlyn Huamani | May 28, 2024, 3 AM PT
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-28/h
ollywood-crew-unemployed-fewer-jobs-la-production-decline
After more than two decades in the industry, Keith Dunkerley still loves nothing more than working on a set. The 47-year-old director of photography and camera operator, who’s had consistent work since he moved to Los Angeles 23 years ago, said his is “the best job in the world.”
Since the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year and the slow restart of production, though, Dunkerley said his work opportunities look quite different than in past years: He has worked only 18 days during the first five months of 2024.
“People outside the business don’t understand this is not a factory,” Dunkerley said. “It’s not like, ‘OK, the strike’s over, go back to the factory, turn the lights on and get the machines going.’ A lot of us knew it’s going to take some time to ramp things up.”
While Dunkerley supported his family through savings and odd jobs as a handyman on TaskRabbit during the strikes, the sluggish rebound has been difficult for him. He’s recently made more than 60 calls to friends and industry contacts to look for prospects.
What Dunkerley is experiencing is a part of the massive ripple effect of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that is still affecting tens of thousands of people working in entertainment and adjacent industries. Crew members, especially, have been hit hard.
“I am currently in the worst place I’ve ever been in my entire life financially,” said Heather Fink, a boom operator and director. “The industry is in a crisis. It is not back to normal. We are in debt.”
Heather Fink, in a white tank top and headphones, holds a boom mic on set.
Heather Fink has been working in sound departments consistently for 14 years, but she said the strikes left her financially vulnerable. “There’s simply not enough work out there,” she said.
(John Ales)
FilmLA, a nonprofit that tracks on-location permitting in the city, released a report in April that revealed a slow bounceback in production after the dual strikes. Local on-location filming in the first quarter of the year was down 8.7% from the first quarter of 2023. Television production was especially impacted, with production falling 16.2% from last year.
Paul Audley, the president of FilmLA, said these findings are startling when considering that film and television production saw a “retraction” at the start of 2023 in anticipation of the looming writers’ strike.
“What we’re facing is a combination of effects of the studios, as well as the streamers, cutting back not only the number of series they produced but in some cases the number of episodes they’re producing for shows,” Audley said.
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With scarce work opportunities, many crew members are concerned about how they will maintain their health insurance, which is often directly tied to the number of hours they work. Those who have coverage with the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans must work 400 hours in a six-month period to maintain their insurance. Many veteran crew members, like hairstylist and department head Jason Orion, who’s worked on shows including “Grey’s Anatomy,” said he has never been close to losing his coverage until now.
Orion was able to keep his health insurance thanks to a job on “9-1-1.” He said because he worked down to the wire before the 2007-08 writers’ strike, he thought he’d be busy until the strikes officially began. In reality, he had “an almost nonexistent beginning of 2023.” Even the shows and films shooting in L.A. now have slashed many departments, he added, noting sets that historically employed 20 hairstylists now have just two or three.
Orion said “9-1-1” was a “very hard show,” noting that crew member Rico Priem recently died in a car accident after pulling a 14-hoNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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more trouble
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA?
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/32293-furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/
So it's getting a release in China, huh? That might help a little.
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