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OPINION: Hollywood hasn’t lost its audience. It lost the event.
By Jack Salaki | Sep. 2There is starting to be a reason to go back to theaters.
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There is starting to be a reason to go back to theaters.
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What was the last piece of media you consumed? Was it a piece of music or maybe a film? Or it could be something entirely different: maybe a short-form video or a news article. Many of us don’t really think about the media we consume. We live in a consumer-first culture, one in which we continuously take in new content without reflecting on it.
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Human beings have been on this planet for a very long time. Modern humans, as we are today, emerged roughly 300,000 years ago. During this time, we have both built and destroyed. Empires have risen to great power and turned into dust, and within all of this time, there have been periods of great flourishing and misery.
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Smoking was fairly normalized in 1950s America. About 45% of American adults smoked cigarettes. A 1951 British survey found that 87% of male doctors were regular smokers. At this time, there were more studies linking smoking to lung cancer.
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Everyone is streaming movies now. According to a recent poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about three-fourths of U.S. adults watched a newly released movie on streaming rather than going to the theater in the past year. About 16% say they go to a movie theater monthly.
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Elon Musk has painted a bold vision of the future: a world where artificial intelligence and robotics make work optional and money irrelevant. According to the billionaire businessman, we will eventually live in an AI operated utopia. He first floated this idea on Joe Rogan's podcast a few weeks ago. He also returned to it at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Nov. 19.
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As the New Jersey gubernatorial election approaches, many college students across the state are getting ready to vote. However, numerous students are still unsure of how voting works or if their vote matters.
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I was scrolling on Instagram when I noticed a strange watermark: Sora. The video that appeared was of a golden lab retriever being pulled over by the police. Yes, you read that correctly — a dog was driving a car. After being questioned, the retriever quickly drove away.
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When you look at the type of superhero movies released in the past few years, you’ll notice a pattern: an over-reliance on multiverse storytelling. “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” one of the most popular movies of 2021, kick-started this trend.
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If Hollywood learns anything from this past summer’s box office returns, it should be to spend less on movies. The fact is simple: streaming will likely only grow en masse and movie ticket prices will not stop increasing. They can’t change that. Yet, Hollywood can change the movies it makes. Instead of making sequels, there’s an opportunity to make creative films for a reduced budget.
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