THE BIG PICTURE

Close-up on what went right, wrong
Patrick GoldsteinThe Big PictureJanuary 10, 2006

Studio
Grade
Warner Bros.
A
20th Century Fox
A-
Disney
B
DreamWorks
B-
Universal
C
New Line
C
Paramount
C-
Miramax
D+
Sony
D
There was a golden age in Hollywood. And then there's today, when domestic box office is down for the third straight year and consumer spending on home video has dropped for the first time in a quarter of a century. Everyone has a theory about what's gone wrong. But for me, it wasn't the movies themselves — there were more than enough good ones to go around. It was time.