Blockbusters fuel Hollywood's rebound, but there's trouble ahead

Hollywood is rebounding at the box office with a string of blockbusters this summer as audiences returned to the theater. But the "Big Three" theater chains are still struggling. Tom Wait reports.

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[ScottGrammer]

Hollywood needs to stop making rehashes of past successes and make a brand-new movie or two that are as good as the ones they're currently rehashing.

[janiekcarney]

The tickets are too high for me unless it’s a movie I Really want to see. Can’t afford snacks and won’t take food in.

[glenholman]

They should start playing old movies and anniversaries of movies

[tashikoweinstein]

I would love to go to the theaters, but I am Hard of Hearing and theaters don't have Captions, so I have wait until they release on DVD or streaming! It sucks, but after while you get used to it...

[starcrib]

Sadly- theater experience isn't cool- dirty lounge chairs, bed bugs, - and other 20th Century stupidity.

[milhouse]

Why go to dirty theaters with expensive ticket prices when the movies are going to streaming in just a few months?

[dee]

They’re not making good movies. Make movies! All kinds of movies! Good movies! Enough corny, tacky BS.

[Defender]

easy solution, just lower the ticket prices for the movie but then jack up popcorn and candy

[keithmoore]

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[cable]

As i read so many reasons why some or many dont go to movies no more so places are gonna have a hard time gettig traffic if they dont ask for feedback from traffic soon. if u can create a movie theater at home then why go to a place just cause all the fancy upgrades any. times have changed and movie places need to ask traffic for help any.

[remmy]

My greatest happiness is the $64, 000 bi-weekly profit I get consistently from my $15, 000 investment despite the economic fluctuation.

[gamingtonight]

Streaming a couple of days after movie released and woke Hollywood is killing cinema, and Hollywood want's it.

[tiboregoldberger]

The problem from Hollywood is the new racism and empty 7th isn't that exists in the movies in the last two years and of course that follows with racism horrible horrible actors who are not qualified to be in movies they have no acting abilities at all and they're completely zero talented but that also reflects on the script writers they're lack of talent intellect really comes through or experience or lack of experience I guess also with reflect on directors and producers who decide to pull out their opinions their racist agenda they're anti-Semitism and racism Hollywood is not making movies anymore it's putting out their agenda propaganda

[silviashefa]

𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗱
A few days ago, the papers warned that Europe is facing the worst drought in 500 years. They described the dry and hot weather and the fires that broke out all over the continent and spoke of an apocalypse. Today, they are reporting flooding in London and violent storms in France causing catastrophic flooding, where in some places, more than an inch of rain fell in less than 30 minutes, and in Paris, a storm with 65 mph wind gusts and nearly 2 inches of rain that fell in just 90 minutes flooded the Metro. Clearly, the climate has gone mad.
However, the climate did not go awry by itself, but because of our madness. Nature’s erratic behavior merely reflects our own agitation toward everything. Our growing narcissism drives us to treat everyone and everything with utter indifference to the needs of others. In fact, we even enjoy hurting others. We think that if we can use others and not see the consequences for our actions right away then there are no consequences, but there are very serious consequences for our wrongdoing toward others.
In the closed system that is the world we live in, everything we do affects everything else, and that effect returns to us like a boomerang. When we pour so much negativity into the system, it becomes dysfunctional, and this summer, we are experiencing this dysfunction through the smoldering heat waves and torrential rains. If we continue to flood the system with hatred and intolerance, we will not need nuclear weapons to wipe us out; plagues, natural disasters, fires, and floods will extinguish us long before we extinguish each other.
When the summer is gone, winter will come with its own perils, and lack of gas and power will wreak havoc in Europe. Eventually, we will have to accept that we cannot defeat nature; we cannot outsmart it. We will have to learn to be an integral part of nature, connected to each other and to nature. We will not survive otherwise.
Since the only element in nature that has bad intentions and an exploitative attitude toward others is us, we must begin to change our relationships. Our attitude toward the rest of nature stems from our attitude toward each other. Therefore, if we are considerate toward each other, we will be considerate toward nature. It turns out that the correction of our tormented planet begins with the correction of our broken ties with one another.
To mend them, we must put our heads together and discuss solutions on a global level. These solutions must be inclusive and take into account everyone's needs. At the same time, everyone must accept that they cannot receive more than is necessary, since they, too, must be considerate toward others.
To get such a global initiative off the ground, there needs to be an open discussion about it all over the global media. People must know that we really are running out of time, and unless we ‎ change now, it will be too late afterwards.‎
I do not know how to keep this move clean from politics and politicians, but it has to be a ‎genuine effort to save humanity and the planet, not a ploy to take control of it. Perhaps a panel of scientists will be able to make this happen, but they, too, must work without ulterior motives.‎
I realize that this idea may sound naive, but I also realize that if we do not take global action to sincerely improve our connections, the approaching annihilation is certain and near.‎