Build Back Blockbusters: How Hollywood Can Go From Zero to Hero in 5 Easy Steps.
If you're one of the happy few who've been to the movies over the last few years, you've no doubt noticed a few changes: higher prices on everything, an eerily quiet lobby, and a distinct lack of, well, audience. The days of an enthusiastic crowd filling the velvet and leather seats of a darkened theater are now seemingly but a distant popcorn-scented memory. You could blame any number of culprits for this mass exodus from the movie house: inflation, lingering COVID fears, countless streaming services playing new releases from the comfort of one’s living room, but the cinema ghost town's raison d'être is a bit closer to home, and frustratingly commonplace in the industry today. You see, kids, Hollywood has forgotten how to make good films. As a screenwriter and lifelong cinephile, it pains me to see movies and the theaters that show them reduced to a shell of their former shining selves. This tragedy could have easily been avoided, had studio executives been more...