Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Danny McBride Knows Why the Movie Business Is Struggling, and It’s Not Because of the Movies Themselves

Danny McBride has a theory as to why the movie business is struggling...outside of the summer season...and he says it has nothing to do with the movies themselves.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's no secret movie theaters have been struggling in particularly
when it isn't the summer season or a blockbuster movie
to fill seats, particularly in smaller towns, and some experts
blame the movies that are being made, but Dana McBride
wagers it's the theaters themselves that might need to consider
an upgrade. Danny himself lives in Charleston, South Carolina, so
who he experiences the local theaters there firsthand. He tells
Hollywood a reporter in the suburban towns, they build all

(00:24):
these big, sixteen screen negaplexes in the late nineties, and
now they feel like relics of a by gone era.
There are only six movies playing in there. It feels
like you're in the Fall of Rome. Even if what
Hollywood is making is good, it's hard to convince people
to not watch it in the comfort of their own
home on a massive TV. They might go spend all
this money only to watch thirty minutes of commercials and
have the projectionist forget to turn the lights off. Danny

(00:45):
McBride there, who also wrote and produced his hit show
The Righteous Gemstones, writes in Charleston. It's in its final
season on Max.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
That's direct from Hollywood.