I wanna briefly touch on the understanding some of the people have when reading this blog. Let’s watch 2 time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington explain the movement in Hollywood for the black actor and director. As we’re closing out Black History month, let’s focus not only on the people (who paved the way) but how we as a generation can grow. Sometimes it is a “numbers thing, not a color block”. We touch on sales for music and movies all the time, now we can analyze the “why”. Hear from one of the top actors black, white or yellow, etc on how the BUSINESS is. Race may be a part of what reduces the cinematic visuals we see at the box office, but (as with each generation) we never stop moving forward.
Feb 242012
Question GoJu Nation. Do you know what industry instantly collapsed with the introduction of the internet? Encyclopedias. They immediately went the path of the dinosaur once the world-wide web became a culture staple. That’s the beauty and the curse of change. It moves us forward but there are business casualties along the way. In 1998 the digital cinematography/film era gained traction and changed the film/tv & camera industry completely. Kodak which was founded in the 19th century (1892) was the standard in film for over a hundred years. From their famous cameras to supplying film to the entire film & television industry, this behemoth was prosperous for generations. Then they got hit by a lightning bolt in technology with the advent of digital imaging. Kodak stuck to their guns and reluctantly came on board to this paradigm shift. As a result they have become the next casuality of the new corporate business model. Now don’t cry they have been successful for over 120 years but for every start there is a finish. Courtesy of CNN‘s Aaron Smith and Hibah Yousuf lets take a look at the business details.
Jan 062012
It’s January and around much of the country Jack Frost has kicked in. So to cure the potential winter blues, GothamJungle will give you something to look forward to. Here are a few of the summer jump-offs that will warm your soul and hold you over until the weather breaks. This could be the biggest summer to date with this small dose of blockbusters. Enjoy the tour GoJu Nation….
Nov 142011
Here we are GoJu Nation. And the holidays are right around the corner. This means we’re gonna have to ramp up da movie charts over here at GothamJungle. I was literally at the movies yesterday which sparked this thought process. We haven’t been bombarded yet with the Christmas and animation movies but that will change very quickly here in the next couple weeks. Your also gonna get a strong dose of emotional and award-winning book movies as this is the last of the Oscar push for these film companies. So lets take a look at what transpired this weekend. There is an interesting trend.
Sep 302011
In Movies
1968 – With “Night of the Living Dead“, the Zombie genre is born with George Romero‘s horror classic. “They’re coming to get you Barbara” became the first official “I’ll be right back” of horror, as poor Judith O’Dea has to flee a cemetery because the dead have inexplicably come back to life and started walking the Earth in search of human flesh.
Aug 152011
Monday, Monday GoJu Nation and we start it off right with da movie charts. We’re starting to get the little gems that end off the summer and swing into Oscar season and some of the numbers bear that out… “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” of course rule movie land for the second week in a row. The last of the summer blockbusters is exactly that by grossing over 100M in those 2 weeks. Which officially makes this a franchise. Look for another “Apes” movie within the coming years (will Mark Wahlberg return??). The charming movie “The Help” which breaks down the scandalous lifestyle of a small town told from the perspective of the maids comes in at number two this week. A solid 25M makes this one of the sleepers of the summer and if can gain some momentum (the in theater marketing was very strong) it may be in the Oscar conversation but it needs bigger box office to make that a possibility.
In Movies:
1982 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High is released in theaters. Written by Cameron Crowe and directed by Amy Heckerling, the film follows a year in the life of high school students Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Linda (Phoebe Cates), Mark (Brian Backer) and Mike (Robert Romanus). The ensemble cast also featured the (then relatively unknown) future A-list Academy Award winning actors Sean Penn (2003), Nicolas Cage (1995) and Forest Whitaker (2006), as well as Judge Reinhold, Eric Stoltz, Ray Walston and Anthony Edwards.
Today will be a different ride with me GoJuNation. I am not in a music mood with the recent change to radio royalties for musicians (click here if you missed that), I am in a planning stage. With that said, I am giving the music a break until next week. Today, I am going to join Mive Content on the movie train. I want to showcase a movie that is focused around all the martial arts heads out there. If you grew up mimicking the movements of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Steven Segal… then you know what I am talking about.
Aug 102011
Here we go GoJu Nation. It’s been pretty busy here lately here at GothamJungle and part of us keeping “Da Nation” happy is keeping the charts consistent. So we deliver da albums. The weekly barometer on how well the music industry is performing. I searched for an album that sold over 100K this past week. I couldn’t find that. What I did find was an album sitting at number 20 that sold close to 17 thousand units. And I also found a number one album that moved 76,000 units. This basically explains the consistent chatter about EMI Music’s pending availability and Warner Music Groups recent sale to Access Industries. This environment sucks. Just like the economy you can’t make heads or tails of what is happening in this field. The only silver lining is the projects that are actually selling are qualitative and consumers are there in droves. Let’s use that as a segue..
Aug 012011
Monday, Monday GoJu Nation and we start off the week with da movie charts. Rounding third base with the summer movies and we’re finishing off the last of da blockbusters with “Cowboys & Aliens”. Jon Favreau’s (director of Iron Man) latest movie project tops the charts at 36M its debut week. Not a major number but significant enough to get the number one spot. I hope this movie recoup its budget and gets into that franchise space. I personally love the premise of what this movie represents (a play on the iconic phrase Cowboys and Indians & taking it to a “now” place) and the cast blends perfectly. And I’m becoming a solid Daniel Craig fan. Now before we get to into what this movie has done, it shares the #1 spot this week with guess who?… The Smurfs… The Damn Smurfs… Now this is a couple of generations removed for where the kids are today but it seems every parent dragged their kid to this one. Thirty-six million for a summer kids movie in August is nothing to sneeze at.
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