The recession-like “stimulus” of recent vintage doesn’t seem to have affected the movie business. The Thanksgiving weekend is typically devoid of tremendous or blockbuster new titles for obvious reasons. However, just like people failed to show up at the mall they also skipped the theater. As I have noted before, this is not because movies are mostly narrowly-tailored junk, as [...]
The biggest thorn in the recovery narrative, or whatever it is that the FOMC claims is guiding its hand, is that consumers are not spending as they “should” under such circumstances. Retail sales not only have disappointed this year, bookended by “unexpected” weather on one and an as-yet excused position for the other, they are downright awful. That is confirmed [...]
Most people today pay little attention to the business of movies, particularly since most new releases are aimed squarely at teenage boys and their appetite for unanchored and gratuitous CGI explosions and mayhem. I’m not saying that movies need to change, not at all, as apparently that is what the current movie market seemingly demands. It was, after all, a [...]
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