Friday, February 1, 2013

Favorite Lines Friday

Here's something I just had to pass along from A Year at the Movies by Kevin Murphy:


The most powerful thing we as an audience could do to Hollywood is to stay away on the opening weekend. They need us in those theaters or they’re sunk. They need us more than we need them. If we don’t go opening weekend for the whole summer, studios will lose millions upon millions, and hundreds of studio executives could lose their jobs.
            Know what will happen then? They wouldn’t stop making movies, but they might stop marketing to us as if we were dull teenage boys. And, hey, maybe they’ll stop letting studio executives make creative decisions and let writers and directors do their work. Maybe they’ll take more risks, and maybe they’ll try getting us into the theaters by showing us good movies.
            Unfortunately, this will only work if the entire nation cooperates. Could you talk to your friends for me? Thanks.



A Year of Books I've Read Before

No comments:

Post a Comment