{"id":120352,"date":"2017-09-03T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120352"},"modified":"2017-09-01T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:50:02","slug":"hollywood-movie-attendance-has-dropped-dramatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/120352-hollywood-movie-attendance-has-dropped-dramatically","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood movie attendance has dropped dramatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hollywood\/la-fi-ct-movie-projector-summer-meltdown-20170830-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The LA Times has reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that Hollywood is having a bad summer movie season, with the number of tickets sold in the US and Canada slumping to a 25-year low.<\/p>\n<p>Industry players are struggling to explain why movie ticket sales have dropped so dramatically, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The feeling is that bad-quality movies and aging franchises with poor reboots are the causes.<\/p>\n<p>Several high-profile movies which failed to deliver in terms of movie ticket sales include The Mummy, Baywatch, and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.<\/p>\n<p>Sequels of well-known franchises which have also performed poorly include Alien, Transformers, and Pirates of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>High movie ticket prices, increased competition from streaming services like Netflix, and the influence of review site Rotten Tomatoes have also been cited as reasons for the decline.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/224918-movie-prices-in-south-africa-ster-kinekor-vs-nu-metro-4.html\">Movie prices in South Africa \u2013 Ster-Kinekor vs Nu Metro<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times has reported\u00a0that Hollywood is having a bad summer movie season, with the number of tickets sold in the US and Canada slumping to a 25-year low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":111473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7874,6402],"class_list":["post-120352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}