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

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: It's no secret movie theaters have been struggling in particularly
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  Speaker 2: when it isn't the summer season or a blockbuster movie
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  Speaker 2: to fill seats, particularly in smaller towns, and some experts
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  Speaker 2: blame the movies that are being made, but Dana McBride
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  Speaker 2: wagers it's the theaters themselves that might need to consider
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  Speaker 2: an upgrade. Danny himself lives in Charleston, South Carolina, so
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  Speaker 2: who he experiences the local theaters there firsthand. He tells
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood a reporter in the suburban towns, they build all
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  Speaker 2: these big, sixteen screen negaplexes in the late nineties, and
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  Speaker 2: now they feel like relics of a by gone era.
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  Speaker 2: There are only six movies playing in there. It feels
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  Speaker 2: like you're in the Fall of Rome. Even if what
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood is making is good, it's hard to convince people
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  Speaker 2: to not watch it in the comfort of their own
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  Speaker 2: home on a massive TV. They might go spend all
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  Speaker 2: this money only to watch thirty minutes of commercials and
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  Speaker 2: have the projectionist forget to turn the lights off. Danny
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  Speaker 2: McBride there, who also wrote and produced his hit show
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  Speaker 2: The Righteous Gemstones, writes in Charleston. It's in its final
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  Speaker 2: season on Max.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.