{"id":12050,"date":"2015-01-30T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2015-01-30T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:52:54","slug":"why-all-the-movies-in-the-theater-today-are-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-all-the-movies-in-the-theater-today-are-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"Why All The Movies In The Theater Today Are Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/013015_1149_WhyAllTheMo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johnny Depp&#8217;s Mortdecai has flopped at the box office. Walt Hickey wrote that this wasn&#8217;t particularly surprising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low turnout during the cold winter months and attention being drawn to the awards season mean that January and February are months with low movie turnout.<\/li>\n<li>This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy since studios release all the films they expect to do badly in these months\u2026further driving down attendance.<\/li>\n<li>But the first two months of the year aren&#8217;t the worst months for movies. Those released in September usually do the worst.<\/li>\n<li>This is because by the time September rolls around, a movie is too late to be a blockbuster, but too early to be Oscar bait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See some fascinating visualizations showing how movies perform across different months, and read more details <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/heres-why-mortdecai-and-all-movies-are-terrible-this-time-of-year\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/heres-why-mortdecai-and-all-movies-are-terrible-this-time-of-year\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Depp&#8217;s Mortdecai has flopped at the box office. Walt Hickey wrote that this wasn&#8217;t particularly surprising: Low turnout during the cold winter months and attention being drawn to the awards season mean that January and February are months with low movie turnout. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy since studios release all the films they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/013015_1149_WhyAllTheMo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12053,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions\/12053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}