Box office bombs. Cable’s collapse. What went wrong for Hollywood in 2024
LA TimesNote: The Wide Shot newsletter will be off next week. Particularly in a year that included Rupert Murdoch’s succession battle, Diddy’s arrest and Blake Lively accusing her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni of waging a smear campaign. Passion projects and unwanted superheroes flop There were plenty of box office bombs this year, but few caught the attention of the industry like Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” and Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1.” Both were self-financed, grand-scale movies from movie business icons who are used to betting on themselves, and that’s pretty much where their similarities end. Netflix spun it, saying that the technical issues were the result of so many people watching: 65 million households streaming concurrently and 120 million viewers tuning in, according to the company’s figures. I’ve spent the last week absolutely rocking out to country-rocker MJ Lenderman’s “Manning Fireworks,” one of the best albums of the year.
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