{"id":156063,"date":"2015-05-05T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/05\/in-case-anyone-is-wondering-why-film-is-marketed\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:39:57","slug":"in-case-anyone-is-wondering-why-film-is-marketed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/05\/in-case-anyone-is-wondering-why-film-is-marketed\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone is wondering why film is marketed and packaged the way it is, here\u2019s the general rules that film companies have followed for fifty years:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>a) a younger child will watch anything an older child will watch;<br \/>b) an older child will not watch anything a younger child will watch;<br \/>c) a girl will watch anything a boy will watch<br \/>d) a boy will not watch anything a girl will watch;<br \/><i>therefore-to catch your greatest audience you zero in on the 19-year old male<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it. Exactly why big Hollywood companies <i>still<\/i>\u00a0make films the way they do. [<a href=\"http:\/\/tvaraj.com\/2012\/10\/18\/the-arkoff-formula-and-the-peter-pan-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_International_Pictures#The_ARKOFF_formula\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone is wondering why film is marketed and packaged the way it is, here\u2019s the general rules that film companies have followed for fifty years: a) a younger child will watch anything an older child will watch;b) an older child will not watch anything a younger child will watch;c) a girl will watch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/05\/in-case-anyone-is-wondering-why-film-is-marketed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17600,17599,1281,7262,13391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}