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Hollywood Needs To Stop Listening To The Mob On Social Media – Chris Gore

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November 15, 2022

Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: What’s… what is…okay all right here. So I don’t know…I don’t know what I’m doing? Am I on a kid’s show? What is this, the elephant in the room? What is the elephant in the room?

Film Courage: Well that’s what we’re wondering if you have any take on?

Chris: I think the elephant in the room is Hollywood is making movies for the mob on social media and not for general audiences. When you look at the successes that have been the biggest films of the year they’ve all been very mainstream movies, Top Gun Maverick being among them. I think that there’s a whole section of the audience that has felt alienated by the infusion of too much agenda and really I go to the movies to escape. I go to the movies to get involved in someone’s story. That story, that person whose story that I’m experiencing through their eyes may not even look like me, may not be the same gender as I am, may not be the same ethnicity. I don’t care. I want to be involved in a human story that I can relate to and by relate to I don’t mean I need to see someone who looks exactly like myself. I think that what needs to happen is that the films that Hollywood makes should really be reflective of the actual audience that goes to the movies. We have seen this year as we’ve gotten past the…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

BIO:

Chris Gore is a writer, comedian, author and television personality who has built a solid reputation as a hilariously outspoken voice in the entertainment world. As a teenager, Chris founded the brutally honest magazine Film Threat, which began as a fanzine while he was a college student in Detroit. As Film Threat evolved into a respected national magazine, he relocated to Los Angeles. The print magazine was retired in 1997 when it was re-launched as a web site. FilmThreat.com found a huge audience online and was named one of the top five movie web sites by the Wall Street Journal. Chris has appeared as a film expert on MSNBC, E!, CNN, Travel Channel, and Reelz Channel. Chis has also hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and G4TV’s Attack of the Show as the show’s film expert. His weekly movie review segment DVDuesday was among the most popular on G4. Chris is also an author, having written The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made and The Complete DVD Book. His book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide is considered the bible of the industry and is required reading at film school.