Hollywood's Twenty-Year Low

The melancholy bugle keeps playing for Hollywood.

A box-office jolt from the magic kingdoms of Kong, Narnia and Hogwarts will close Hollywood's year with some holiday cheer, though not enough to offset the biggest decline in movie attendance in 20 years.

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Maybe its spate of pro-gay films will reverse its fortunes. Chuckle.

For the past two years (if not longer), Hollywood has been buzzing with the new reality: family films sell, and then they go out and produce a bunch of gay films. Either (i) the entertainment commentators are wrong about the lucrative market of family films, (ii) Hollywood doesn't believe the commentators, (iii) Hollywood has enough time and money to produce all sorts of films, so losses in one segment don't really matter, (iv) Hollywood has put ideology ahead of profit, or (v) Hollywood has a death wish.

I don't know the answer.