Saturday, June 21, 2008

Documentaries: Now Tanking at a Theater Near You!

It seems like it was just a year or two ago that documentaries were doing well at the movie box office. Penguins were on the march, Al Gore was predicting bad things for Greenland, and Morgan Sperlock was showing how helpful McDonalds could be if, for some reason, you wanted to get really fat.

But recently, documentaries have been box office duds. In fact, business has been so bad that some movie distributors are beginning to back away from them, according to this Los Angeles Times story.

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #48

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

where are the medianotes after June 21??

10:33 PM  
Blogger Mike Eberts (AKA Your Humble Blogger) said...

I've had some problems with maintenance of Club Medianote during the summer session. I expect it will be back in the fall.

8:49 AM  

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