{"id":181874,"date":"2025-11-15T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/181874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:32:12","slug":"flopbusters-hollywood-is-on-its-knees-as-big-movies-fail-at-the-box-office-but-ireland-is-bucking-that-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/181874\/","title":{"rendered":"Flopbusters: Hollywood is on its knees as big movies fail at the box office \u2013 but Ireland is bucking that trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nHeading to the cinema is becoming a thing of the past around the world. But why do the Irish simply refuse to quit their popcorn-laden evenings in front of a big screen?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clockwise from top left: Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine, Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another, Julia Roberts in After the Hunt, Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean in Anemone, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ef0e9151-6c99-470c-984b-9c7c864e4f41.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Clockwise from top left: Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine, Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another, Julia Roberts in After the Hunt, Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean in Anemone, Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When did you last go to the cinema? While statistics prove that Irish attendance rates continue to buck international patterns, the underlying trend is obvious \u2013 cinema-going is facing an existential crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Since the mass arrival of Netflix and other streamers in the 2010s, film studios and producers have been under increased pressure as their slice of the visual entertainment market shrinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading to the cinema is becoming a thing of the past around the world. But why do the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[9441,18,117,19,17,1340,102703,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-181874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-colin-farrell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","14":"tag-paul-whitington","15":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115553261821850198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}