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I'd rather watch Bollywood and Koreawood any day than spend another minute watching a Hollywood movie.

CinemaCon, the annual gathering of cinema professionals, unfolded in a rather paradoxical atmosphere. While Hollywood seems to be questioning how to rekindle the public's passion for movie theaters, the dominant tone, according to this analysis, remains one of denial and blindness to the root causes of this disaffection.

The event opened with a video message from Tom Cruise, advocating for the magic of the big screen, a notable absence that, according to the video's author, underscores the futility of the convention itself. The figures are stark: cinema attendance is struggling to return to its pre-pandemic levels of 2019, despite a steady increase in ticket prices. Faced with this reality, CinemaCon appears as a crisis meeting where efforts are made to ignore the core problem: the quality and ideological slant of the films being offered.

The idea of reverting to a 45-day exclusivity window for movie theaters is presented as a solution, but the analysis sees it as a desperate attempt to hold the public hostage, rather than a genuine strategy to win back hearts. The home viewing experience, with increasingly sophisticated technology, now often surpasses that of theaters, and the constraint of traveling and sharing space with other viewers becomes a major deterrent.

The fundamental problem, according to the video, lies in the disconnect between Hollywood and its audience. Studios continue to produce films with astronomical budgets, favoring overpaid actors whose presence no longer guarantees box office success. The era of instant information and social media has changed the game: the public is now informed in real-time about the quality of films and is no longer willing to go to theaters for disappointing or ideologically charged productions.

The analysis criticizes the excessive focus on figures and data, at the expense of understanding the public's expectations. Hollywood seems incapable of self-reflection and prefers to blame the economy, marketing, or the movie theaters themselves. The proposed solutions, such as loyalty programs or pre-ordering concessions via apps, appear as derisory patches in the face of a fundamental problem: the lack of quality and originality in films, as well as their divisive ideological orientation.

In conclusion, the video paints a bleak picture of the Hollywood film industry, stuck in its certainties and unable to reinvent itself. Only a profound questioning of its practices and a genuine listening to the public's expectations could lead to a way out of this crisis.

Simply put: if you are catering to a WOKE crowd, you'll get a Woke crowd. But do not be amazed that you cannot even fill 10 spots ...