Hollywood’s Collapse Continues – October Box Office Sales Were a Dud, Summer 2025 Was Worst in Decades

The entertainment industry is in serious trouble. Even the liberal New York Times is panicking.

This weekend, the Times ran a story about how Hollywood can’t seem to connect to American audiences anymore. It doesn’t matter how many stars are in a movie or how much it cost to make, people just aren’t going to the movies like they used to.

Could it have something to do with all of the liberal lecturing and virtue signaling in movies today?

The NY Times piece is behind a paywall, but conservative entertainment critic Christian Toto wrote about it:

NY Times: Is Hollywood’s Movie Star Era Over?

Welcome to the party, pals.

The New York Times published a grim look at this year’s theatrical releases. The report shares what right-leaning commentators have noted for years.

The era of the Movie Star is unofficially over.

The timing couldn’t be more prophetic. Glen Powell, an actor with Cruise-level magnetism and a willingness to please, couldn’t push “The Running Man” to the top of the box office charts. The film opened with a weak $17 million…

Why? How much time do you have? It’s easy to point to the obvious causes:

– The rise of streaming competition
– The shrinking window for films hitting VOD platforms
– The rise of consequential video game titles
– Social media
– Shrinking attention spans in Gen Z
– The pandemic fallout

And the ones media outlets won’t go near.

– Stars made themselves toxic to half the country with their political views
– Stars are, for the most part, over-exposed
– The movies just aren’t very good, in toto
– The Woke Mind Virus still infects the industry
– Hollywood has lost touch with the common man

John Nolte of Breitbart News, who often writes about movies and the entertainment industry, takes a similar point of view:

“Survive till ’25,” was the Hollywood mantra, as though the appeal and quality of the product had nothing to do with that survival.

“Is 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?” the Times asked.

Yes, but for only one reason — which has nothing to do with the pandemic, streaming, or early releases to the home video market. And that single reason is … appeal.

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?

Like many of America’s cultural institutions, Hollywood needs new leadership.

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.

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