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As the person who first wrote this page, I think we should too. Hollywood\'s been having several bad years now, with rising budgets and declining ticket sales being masked by skyrocketing ticket prices, and it\'s only been this past summer that average moviegoers (those who aren\'t movie buffs or Hollywood insiders) are starting to realize it. It\'s starting to look like a repeat of the FallOfTheStudioSystem. Back then, Hollywood had to worry about television stealing their audience; now, it\'s the internet and video games. Back then, there was a backlash against the HaysCode; now, [[RogerEbert people]] [[ThisFilmIsNotYetRated are complaining]] that the MPAA is too puritanical to be considered representative of the average moviegoer. Back then, the star system fell apart thanks to headstrong, disgruntled actors and scandalous tabloids; now, people are [[http://filmtvindustry.suite101.com/article.cfm/is_film_stardom_dead proclaiming]] the end of the \
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As the person who first wrote this page, I think we should too. Hollywood\\\'s been having several bad years now, with rising budgets and declining ticket sales being masked by skyrocketing ticket prices, and it\\\'s only been this past summer that average moviegoers (those who aren\\\'t movie buffs or Hollywood insiders) are starting to realize it. It\\\'s starting to look like a repeat of the FallOfTheStudioSystem. Back then, Hollywood had to worry about television stealing their audience; now, it\\\'s the internet and video games. Back then, there was a backlash against the HaysCode; now, [[RogerEbert people]] [[ThisFilmIsNotYetRated are complaining]] that the MPAA is too puritanical to be considered representative of the average moviegoer. Back then, the star system fell apart thanks to headstrong, disgruntled actors and scandalous tabloids; now, people are [[http://filmtvindustry.suite101.com/article.cfm/is_film_stardom_dead proclaiming]] the end of the \\\"movie star\\\", or at least the idea that star wattage alone can sell a film to the public. [[hottip:*:However, as that article states, that could simply be because Hollywood hasn\\\'t found this generation\\\'s TomHanks or JuliaRoberts yet.]] And both then and now, Hollywood has been failing to hold its customers\\\' attention. The only difference I see is that there hasn\\\'t been any equivalent of the Paramount or Miracle decisions to really shock Hollywood.
I think it can be agreed that the Blockbuster Age is either on its last legs, or already over, and personally, I\\\'m leaning towards the latter. To me, all that remains is naming the new age of Hollywood\\\'s history (the Modern Age? The Fall of the Second Studio System?), and deciding when the Blockbuster Age ended and the new age began. I think there are several points over the last five years or so (if not earlier) that can be pinpointed as the dividing line (the [[TVStrikes Writers\\\' Strike]], the rise of independent studios, this crappy year of movies), but it will take hindsight to really determine which were ultimately the most important. So for now, let\\\'s just keep calling the Blockbuster Age the current age until we can be sure that it\\\'s really over.
Questions?
I think it can be agreed that the Blockbuster Age is either on its last legs, or already over, and personally, I\\\'m leaning towards the latter. To me, all that remains is naming the new age of Hollywood\\\'s history (the Modern Age? The Fall of the Second Studio System?), and deciding when the Blockbuster Age ended and the new age began. I think there are several points over the last five years or so (if not earlier) that can be pinpointed as the dividing line (the [[TVStrikes Writers\\\' Strike]], the rise of independent studios, this crappy year of movies), but it will take hindsight to really determine which were ultimately the most important. So for now, let\\\'s just keep calling the Blockbuster Age the current age until we can be sure that it\\\'s really over.
Questions?
