首页
登录
职称英语
Hollywood racked up another "record" year at the box office. But the higher
Hollywood racked up another "record" year at the box office. But the higher
游客
2024-10-21
41
管理
问题
Hollywood racked up another "record" year at the box office. But the higher ticket sales mask fundamental issues in the U. S. movie industry, where the so-called blockbuster strategy is causing movies to open with big tallies that fall off faster than in previous years. Movie ticket sales reached an estimated 8.35 billion in 2001, up 8.4% from 7.7 billion in 2000, the largest gain since 1998. Moreover, the number of tickets sold — a more reliable indicator — rose to an estimated 1.49 billion, according to box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations Co. The strong sales were aided by the post-Christmas, pre-New Year weekend. Although many observers thought people would stay away from the theaters after the 9•11, the numbers have been up 5% industry-wide since then from year earlier levels.
Those positive trends, however, gloss over deeper problems facing the Hollywood studios and movie theater chains, where real audience growth has been marginal. Box-office totals have nearly tripled during the past decade, while the number of tickets sold has risen 30%, indicating the box-office record is driven by higher ticket prices, not increase in movie attendance. A more dangerous development, at least for theater operators, has been the trend toward movies opening to large box-office figures during the first weekend and then quickly trailing off. Theater operators earn most of the money from movies playing in their theaters after the second week. Studios, in contrast, collect the majority of a movie’s ticket receipts the first week.
But, for the Hollywood studios that distribute the bulk of the movies seen by the public, the blockbuster strategy of putting as many marketable high profile movies into theaters as possible will continue in 2002 "I call it the year of the sequel," says Paul, a box-office analyst, noting the coming year’s lineup includes Men in Black 2, Stuart Little 2, Spy Kids 2, second installments for Harry Potter and Lord of the Ring. "Studios are playing it safe," he says. Such hyper-marketed movies can open big at box office, but they don’t tend to hold up in subsequent weeks, as the core movie-going audience — teenagers and adults in their 20s flock to the next "big" movie. Some of last year’s largest openers, such as Planet of the Apes, The Mummy Return and Jurassic Park saw their box-office number plunge by 50% or more the second weekend.
One possible outcome is that the decades-old relationship between studios and theaters will undergo changes. If the studios persist in pushing "blockbuster" movies, then the traditional system of the studios taking a larger share of the box-office receipts in the first weeks could be revised to something more equitable. Studios, however, would be expected to fight any effort to revamp the current system. [br] The theater operators are facing perilous problems EXCEPT
选项
A、the number of the audience is getting smaller year after year.
B、the studios gain most of the ticket receipts while the theater operators gain less.
C、after the second week, the audiences nearly have little interest in the so-called "big" movies.
D、the box office figures usually fall off rapidly after the first weekend.
答案
A
解析
细节题。文章第一段末尾提到观众人数的增长在5%左右,并没有说观众的人数越来越少,因而选A B 在第二段末尾处提到了,C 和D 可以从第二段第三句话得出。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3811511.html
相关试题推荐
ThecarindustrysufferedanothersetbackyesterdaywhenLucasElectricalCom
ThecarindustrysufferedanothersetbackyesterdaywhenLucasElectricalCom
ThecarindustrysufferedanothersetbackyesterdaywhenLucasElectricalCom
______,Imustdoanotherexperiment.A、BeiteversolateB、ItiseversolateC
Idon’tknowyouwanttokeeptheletter.I’ve______itup.A、crackedB、tornC、b
Allegoryisaliterarydevice______anotherlevelofmeaningisconcealedwithin
Hollywoodrackedupanother"record"yearattheboxoffice.Butthehigher
Thehigherthestandardoflivingandthegreaterthenationalwealth,______.A、
AnotheraspectofAmericansocietythatmay【C1】______non-Americansisthefa
AnotheraspectofAmericansocietythatmay【C1】______non-Americansisthefa
随机试题
•Readtheatriclebelowabouttheneedofemployees.•Choosethecorrect
Thejurygavea________of"notguilty".A、sentenceB、judgmentC、chargeD、verdict
[originaltext]M:Goodmorning!I’dliketomakeadeposittomysavingsaccount
电子邮件邀请函【说明】第十五届商品展示会下个月将在北京举行。写一份电子邮件诚挚邀请大家来参加这个活动。邮件内容应包含以下几个信息点:【内容】
It’s10pm.Youmaynotknowwhereyourchildis,butthechipdoes.The
废热锅炉是()的装置。A.降低煤气的温度并除去煤气中的灰尘和焦油 B.用于
A.腹壁浅动外侧,腹股沟韧带上方 B.腹壁浅动脉内侧,腹股沟韧带上方 C.腔
对用于投切()等操作频繁的开关柜要适当缩短巡检和维护周期。当无功补偿装置容量增大
在MMPI或MMPI-2中,如果剖面图的整体模式呈现“左高右低”的模式,这种模
基础心理学是研究()。 (A)正常成人心理现象的心理学基础学科 (B
最新回复
(
0
)