Twilight was released Nov 21, yesterday. It has already done $752 Million at the box office. Now do you believe what I have been saying? The new Twilight book series features a romance between young female Bella and vampire Edward. Similarly Sookie is smitten with vampire Bill in HBO's True Blood.
Sunday night has always been a big television night. When General Electric owned NBC in the 1960s, it desired to sell the new technology, color television to the public. so it commissioned the family series Bonanza (how the west never was) in of course color. At the time it was a big deal to be invited to someone's home on Sunday to watch Bonanza on their new $400 color televisions. While the color in those days was terrible it set a trend. Bonanza was the story of Dad the his three sons on a Nevada ranch so successful that there was never, as I recall, a scene with anyone working cattle or anything else. The stock market was up reflecting the attitudes of the times.
tonight however America will be watching Desperate Housewives, Brothers and Sisters, 24, and True Blood. the first two are sex suggestive classic soap operas. Brothers features a somewhat disfuncitonal family and their ever failing business, a sign of the times. The Huxtables they are not.
24 is the Fox series about anti terror expert Jack Bauer, known to bend the rules whenever necessary. This time the action takes place in civil war ravaged Africa rather than America.
True Blood will conclude its first 'season' tonight. HBO has found a smash follow up to Sopranos.
Okay you tell me, is all this coincidence? Hardly. Now the stock market is down reflecting the emotions of people.
I don't think this is, or is not coincidence but at the same time maybe people are just into these kind of storylines ?!? I was discussing the movie Twilight with a friend over the weekend, prior to her seeing it (because her husband insisted) and she feel in love with it...she even went out and bought the book the next day...so to her, she wasn't too interested because at first she thought it was weird but now she liked it...I believe it's all personal preference...
Posted by: Daisy | November 24, 2008 at 05:10 PM
$72 M in any one weekend is a lot of personal preference!
such movies are always popular in bad times, the Exorcist came out during the 1972-74 bear market for example.
Posted by: Dennis Elam | November 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM