{"id":318766,"date":"2025-11-20T07:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318766"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:39:16","slug":"hollywoods-collapse-continues-october-box-office-sales-were-a-dud-summer-2025-was-worst-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318766","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s Collapse Continues \u2013 October Box Office Sales Were a Dud, Summer 2025 Was Worst in Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike LaChance \u2013 The Gateway Pundit Nov 17, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The entertainment industry is in serious trouble. Even the liberal New York Times is panicking.<\/p>\n

This weekend, the Times ran a story about how Hollywood can\u2019t seem to connect to American audiences anymore. It doesn\u2019t matter how many stars are in a movie or how much it cost to make, people just aren\u2019t going to the movies like they used to.<\/p>\n

Could it have something to do with all of the liberal lecturing and virtue signaling in movies today?<\/p>\n

The NY Times piece is behind a paywall, but conservative entertainment critic Christian Toto wrote about it:<\/a><\/p>\n

NY Times: Is Hollywood\u2019s Movie Star Era Over?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the party, pals.<\/p>\n

The New York Times published a grim look at this year\u2019s theatrical releases. The report shares what right-leaning commentators have noted for years.<\/p>\n

The era of the Movie Star is unofficially over.<\/p>\n

The timing couldn\u2019t be more prophetic. Glen Powell, an actor with Cruise-level magnetism and a willingness to please, couldn\u2019t push \u201cThe Running Man\u201d to the top of the box office charts. The film opened with a weak $17 million\u2026<\/p>\n

Why? How much time do you have? It\u2019s easy to point to the obvious causes:<\/p>\n

\u2013 The rise of streaming competition
\n\u2013 The shrinking window for films hitting VOD platforms
\n\u2013 The rise of consequential video game titles
\n\u2013 Social media
\n\u2013 Shrinking attention spans in Gen Z
\n\u2013 The pandemic fallout<\/p>\n

And the ones media outlets won\u2019t go near.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Stars made themselves toxic to half the country with their political views
\n\u2013 Stars are, for the most part, over-exposed
\n\u2013 The movies just aren\u2019t very good, in toto
\n\u2013 The Woke Mind Virus still infects the industry
\n\u2013 Hollywood has lost touch with the common man<\/p>\n

John Nolte of Breitbart News,<\/a> who often writes about movies and the entertainment industry, takes a similar point of view:<\/p>\n

\u201cSurvive till \u201925,\u201d was the Hollywood mantra, as though the appeal and quality of the product had nothing to do with that survival.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it time for Hollywood to concede that a lot of moviegoers in North America are never coming back? That movie theaters have permanently lost 20 to 25 percent of their customers?\u201d the Times asked.<\/p>\n

Yes, but for only one reason \u2014 which has nothing to do with the pandemic, streaming, or early releases to the home video market. And that single reason is \u2026 appeal.<\/p>\n

If streaming and theatrical windows and the pandemic caused the worst summer box office in 44 years, why did the summers of 2022, 2023, and 2024 produce better box office results?<\/p>\n

Like many of America\u2019s cultural institutions, Hollywood needs new leadership.<\/p>\n

The people running the entertainment industry are not only failing to sell new movies, they have destroyed brands that were once thought to be unbreakable,<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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