Are we witnessing the endgame of Hollywood?

bollywood will replace hollywood in next 30 years

No one wants to watch Bollywood movies.

No one wants to watch Bollywood movies.

Old men yelling at clouds always makes me smile.

OP, even Spielberg and Lucas have been predicting the demise of the film industry for years. The high cost of filmmaking has made the studios even less willing to take risks, so they keep churning out the same superhero crap over and over again.

Did you see the date on your article? Do you you know where 2019 ranks among movie theater attendance in the last twenty years? Do you know how many films from this year are in Imdb's top 250 not counting Avengers? Keep yelling. The gods will eventually hear you

I think Christopher Nolan has another original blockbuster coming up.

But that’s rare.

What will Bollywood make without Hollywood to copy?

hollywood is like madonna - it ran out of original ideas decades ago and has been churning out reductive garbage thinking anyone still cares.

Yeah, it's because you and I are afraid to write!

We have good ideas and we don't do it.

R8 the movie where the kid was on the game show was pretty good.

The tiger movie was pretty good.

Most people like the “crap” it seems

Marvel movies are all the rage in China so they will keep churning out these shitty movies. Hollywood will cater more and more to the tastes of the Chinese market. Hopefully the Chinese middle class starts clamoring for some deep movies.

If Hollywood movies go away, what will happen to the Broadway musical, which is anchored in re-made movies?

OP, people were saying the same things 100 years ago.

OP in the 1920s:

Talkies suck! Hollywood is over!

OP in the 1950s:

Movies are over, everyone watches tv now!

There are many, many interesting films out there that you, sadly, won't see at the local multiplex. Foreign films; indies; weirdies...

I read "Sight & Sound" and "Film Comment" magazines and write down films they review. My city has a huge library system and- more often than not- they will have a film I'm looking for.

Those aren’t Bollywood movies, r8.

A Bollywood movie is in Hindi, it’s 3 hours long and has musical numbers.

Oh, and it plagiarizes the shit out of Hollywood blockbusters.

I meant for r11.

OP's "three things + 'oh my'" construction should be a guaranteed endgame — anyone who uses it should be killed on the spot.

R17 I've been buying and reading Sight & Sound and Film Comment since the 1970s and I'm thinking of stopping soon because like cinema they have gone down hill and are a waste of money.

Coming from Spielberg of all people is pretty rich.

Hollywood will be consumed by Netflix and Amazon.

I miss the studio system movies, and I love story movies. Not these big blockbusters which are overdone with special effects and CGI. I really miss the 20th century movie industry. Preferably the earlier part to mid century, into the 70s and 80s.

We need movie stars again. Everyone today just considers themselves working actors and not cinematic gods and goddesses etc. We still have a few, but not to many real genuine movie stars anymore. I think the internet has ruined a lot of the magic of Hollywood. We the public know way to much about our favorite "stars" now. The mystique is gone. We see them 24/7 now in real time on social media and were just not as excited anymore to see them as we use to be.

The magic is gone. For now anyway. I think that's why I appreciate networks like TCM so much. Real talent, real stars, and great stories in cinematic form. Hollywood needs to get back to telling really good well written stories again, and get away from all of this trilogy bullshit. It's fucking tiresome at this point.

I prefer 20th century Hollywood. The 21st century isn't cutting it for me.

R2 not true, Bollywood movies have quietly entered China and they were well received by Chinese audience. No, they are not the stereotype singing and dancing trope or slumdog millionaire hollywood production. Taking Aamir Khan's movies, performed well overseas particular in China, Khan is a super star there, his 2016 movie Dangal broke all sorts of box office records, the first Indian movie to gross $300 million worldwide, and China alone contributed a staggering number of $206 million, more than two thirds of its box office from China.

If you read hollywood reporting, you might think there are only two movie markets - US and China, and both markets are dominated by superheroes or action stars, non-hollywood/european productions might have trouble entering US mainstream, but in China, they have plenty of room for indian movies, or even movies from small countries like Thailand (Bad Genius) and Lebanon (Capernaum), both achieved big success in China.

R13 I don't think you read the latest box office number from China, the change of taste already happened, China's 2019 box office number hits all time high, but guess what, 8 of the top 10 biggest films are Chinese local productions, they have nothing to do with marvel or hollywood. I think NYT had a piece last month saying Hollywood already in panic mode.

[quote] If Hollywood movies go away, what will happen to the Broadway musical, which is anchored in re-made movies?

Then they'll just have to go back to adapting books and plays like they used to.

R20 should face death by the firing squad for advocating the genocide of gay men.

[quote]Remakes, sequels, and re-boots, oh my!

You're a hack, OP.

Let's do lunch and discuss a three picture deal.

All right, R28. Make reservations for lunch at Spago 25 years ago.

Good meeting. We're in love with your script! Wouldn't change a thing! You're a genius. We just have a few notes.

American cinema is dead, a victim of politics, finance and paucity of ideas. European cinema is heading in the same direction, with countries simply remaking popular films in their own language.

Cinema in South and East Asia continues to thrive because of politics, finance, and a poor, highly socially stratified/restricted population.

Everything seems to be declining in western countries.

[quote] We need movie stars again. Everyone today just considers themselves working actors and not cinematic gods and goddesses etc.

He’s right you know.

[quote]We still have a few, but not to many real genuine movie stars anymore.

Oh, dear!

[quote]We the public know way to much about our favorite "stars" now.

Oh, DEAR!

It’s all gone downhill since they let that Gable feller say he doesn’t give a “damn” (gasp) in front of all those women.

I'd say they had about 25 good years after that, R35.

Artists will always find something way to work off or around the system. After the new American cinema, the independent cinema movement, we are due for the next artistic wave. Who knows what it might be?

One of my favorite films of 2018 was "Leave No Trace". But it left no trace at the box office because Amurkkka wants cartoons, video game and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Go on, OP, blame the Jews. You know you want to.

The type of quality movie you're all yearning for is still being made. It's just ten hours long and comes in one hour chunks on Netflix and Amazon

But r24 How do you put the genie back in the bottle and rediscover recreate that magic and mystique? I dont think its possible.