{"id":2683,"date":"2012-02-19T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2012-02-19T04:09:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T09:09:13","slug":"the-economics-of-hollywood-movie-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-hollywood-movie-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of Hollywood Movie Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021812_2129_TheEconomic1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Asymco decided to look past the illusions of the industry that creates them, and put some hard numbers to Hollywood movies. Their findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While Drama, Comedy and Romance make up 60% of the movies released, Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi are the genres that bring in the most amount of money.<\/li>\n<li>There is a lot of incumbency \u2013 the Hollywood studios that earned 64% of revenues in 1975 now earn 60%.<\/li>\n<li>After-release revenues from DVD sales and merchandising rely on popularity that only comes during the time of the film&#8217;s theatrical release. This has led to movies being released across more theaters simultaneously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read why males seem to drive Hollywood blockbusters, the reasons for the summer release schedule, and expanded graphs of the most successful movie genres click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymco.com\/2012\/02\/07\/hollywood-by-the-numbers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymco.com\/2012\/02\/07\/hollywood-by-the-numbers\/\">Asymco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/02\/assorted-links-369.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asymco decided to look past the illusions of the industry that creates them, and put some hard numbers to Hollywood movies. Their findings include: While Drama, Comedy and Romance make up 60% of the movies released, Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi are the genres that bring in the most amount of money. There is a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021812_2129_TheEconomic1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}