Wall Street can kick the bucket — Hollywood will survive
“Economy? We don’t need no stinkin’ economy!”
That ought to be the Hollywood battle-cry after this weekend’s box office numbers, which were up 68 percent over the same weekend a year ago, according to a report on IMDB.com.
The weekend success is owed mostly to the strong opening of the vampire flick “Twilight,” which pulled in about $70 million — well beyond the estimates of experts.
That’s an early sign the movie industry won’t be affected by the dwindling economy, as has been the case in history.
Even during the Great Depression the entertainment industry surged. During challenging times people need a place to escape from the real world, even if just for a few hours.
Why people want to escape into a vampire version of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” I’ll never know, but it’s still a good sign that film won’t die with the rest of Wall Street.
Not yet, anyway.
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Hooray...
12:53am, Nov 26, 2008
..because I was oh so worried about how all these millionaire movie-stars, actors and directors were going to survive our horrible economic woes. Not!
You're looking at it wrong
5:21am, Nov 28, 2008
Of course the blockbusters won’t be effected. It’s the mid-level movies that would have done OK that will now become flops. Not that I really care if Paramount makes a few more million though.