Hollywood is torturing itself over this simple question: What’s happened to the audience? Why have movies batted .000 with its 25 wannabe hits this fall?

Many theories are being advanced, but I favor simple answers: Movies have gotten lost because there’s too much else going on.

Analyzing the confusion demo by demo, let’s start with mine: Now thoroughly digitized, the senior demo is obsessing over video games like Hades II instead of sampling movies or streamers. We’re also furtively feasting on MrBeast or Adam W on YouTube rather than checking out the neighborhood multiplex. Or sampling Boggle Party or the other myriad games exploding across Netflix (yes, that streamer company).

Meanwhile the other major demo – the kids – seem to be sidelining TikTok to discover suddenly resuscitat

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