{"id":1889,"date":"2009-06-03T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/after-a-blazing-start-the-2009-hollywood-box-office-shows-signs-of-cooling\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:44:08","slug":"after-a-blazing-start-the-2009-hollywood-box-office-shows-signs-of-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/after-a-blazing-start-the-2009-hollywood-box-office-shows-signs-of-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"After a Blazing Start, the 2009 Hollywood Box Office Shows Signs of Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Weirdly, the real strength in this year&#8217;s box-office has come from mid-level films, which is precisely where the conventional wisdom has said studios should not tread. Movies like &#8220;Taken&#8221; or &#8220;Paul Blart: Mall Cop,&#8221; on middling budgets with middling stars, over-performed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Is the end of huge budget movies near as George Lucas predicts?<\/p>\n<p><img src=https:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/05\/07\/arts\/trekspan.jpg \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/03\/after-a-blazing-start-to-the-year-the-hollywood-box-office-shows-signs-of-cooling\/ target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/03\/after-a-blazing-start-to-the-year-the-hollywood-box-office-shows-signs-of-cooling\/<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weirdly, the real strength in this year&#8217;s box-office has come from mid-level films, which is precisely where the conventional wisdom has said studios should not tread. Movies like &#8220;Taken&#8221; or &#8220;Paul Blart: Mall Cop,&#8221; on middling budgets with middling stars, over-performed. Is the end of huge budget movies near as George Lucas predicts? https:\/\/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/03\/after-a-blazing-start-to-the-year-the-hollywood-box-office-shows-signs-of-cooling\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}