{"id":13780,"date":"2016-03-11T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13780"},"modified":"2016-03-10T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T04:18:07","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-movie-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/whatever-happened-to-the-movie-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To The Movie Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-left: 36pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/031116_0413_WhateverHap1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/whatever-happened-to-movie-actresses\/\">end of the movie actress was proclaimed three years ago<\/a>. Now The Economist is willing to say the same about actors in general.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deadpool, with a relatively unknown star, has dominated the box office recently. Meanwhile movies such as Joy and Concussion, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Will Smith respectively, have struggled.<\/li>\n<li>These days audiences seem to go to the theaters to see special effects, and any relative unknown in a superhero costume can act in that.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, the stars of today owe their success in part to action flicks. Lawrence made her name from The Hunger Games, and Star Wars&#8217; Daisy Ridley seems to have gotten a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/star-wars-daisy-ridley-in-running-to-play-lara-croft-in-tomb-raider-film-reboot-1649486\/\">similar bump<\/a>, being in consideration to play Lara Croft.<\/li>\n<li>Yet movies will continue to feature big name attractions. If nothing else a studio head that approves a flop with a mainstream star will likely face less blowback than if a similarly failed film had starred an unknown.<\/li>\n<li>Some actors continue to be able to pull in audiences though \u2013 mostly comedic ones such as Kevin Hart and Melissa McCarthy.<\/li>\n<li>This seems to be in part because such stars signal to the audience exactly what kind of film they&#8217;re about to see.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile some stars such as Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts continue to get movie offers even though they&#8217;ve been pretty consistent in making a poor string of movies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the star power of Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger in markets abroad, the racial implications of all this, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21693591-hollywood-studios-can-no-longer-bank-pulling-power-famous-actors-fading-stars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21693591-hollywood-studios-can-no-longer-bank-pulling-power-famous-actors-fading-stars\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the movie actress was proclaimed three years ago. Now The Economist is willing to say the same about actors in general. Deadpool, with a relatively unknown star, has dominated the box office recently. Meanwhile movies such as Joy and Concussion, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Will Smith respectively, have struggled. These days audiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13780","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\/2016\/03\/031116_0413_WhateverHap1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780","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=13780"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13786,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13780\/revisions\/13786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}