{"id":1611,"date":"2009-10-19T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2009-10-19T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:59:13","slug":"fewer-films-but-more-filmgoers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"Fewer films but more filmgoers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a massive movie fan, I was interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/oct\/18\/hollywood-films-numbers-fall\">this article<\/a> which highlights the fall in Hollywood films &#8211; from just over 600 last year to fewer than 400 next year &#8211; at the same time as ticket revenues look likely to climb by 2% this year.<br \/>\nThe key factor is probably the same one: the economic recession. The credit crunch makes it harder to fund films but the tough financial times make escapist entertainment very appealing.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m particularly looking forward to James Cameron&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0499549\/\">&#8220;Avatar&#8221;<\/a> which opens on 18 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a massive movie fan, I was interested in this article which highlights the fall in Hollywood films &#8211; from just over 600 last year to fewer than 400 next year &#8211; at the same time as ticket revenues look likely to climb by 2% this year. The key factor is probably the same one: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}