I can see the movies going the way of the Videogames.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to produce, so the risk of losing that investment runs very high in the eyes of the producers. What do they do? They come up with Sequels and rehashes because they don't want to deviate, fearing that the movie will bomb. 

What happens to the movie industry as a whole? Methinks it shrinks, because only the hardcore movie fans will want to see another Pirates of the Caribbean movie, or INSERT SEQUEL here. Not everyone who saw Pirates 3 will see Pirates 4, and newcomers will be discouraged from seeing Pirates 4 because they will feel that they have missed out if they didn't see Pirates 1 - 3. Combine that with rising actors costs and production values and you take a hit on the bottom line. 

 I think Nintendo saw the same thing happen with the videogame industry. How many WWII FPSes can you make before they start getting stale? Again, with rising costs of game development and the audience staying the same, the developer takes a hit on the bottom line.  

So what's my take on the movie industry? I want them to be like Nintendo and create a disruption in the market. In this case with movies:  BRING BACK THE B MOVIES!

 Why you may ask? Well the actors are usually no-names and the investment in special effects and production values are relatively low. The low cost of development will mean two things:

 1) Lots of cheap, crappy movies. Though I argue that there are just as many expensive, crappy movies out there as well.

 2) Since the investment is low, so is the risk, so a producer will not mind so much when backing a non-conventional screenplay.  

 This will bring fresh storylines to the movie industry and will also bring new actors into the limelight. 

 Also, producers need not to worry about heavy marketing-- if a movie is good enough, then it will succeed on its own merit-- movies like SuperBad or Juno were made very cheaply with relatively no-name stars and both ended up making lots of money through either word-of-mouth advertising or through internet forums.

 What's your opinion?

I think the movie industry is going to die if they don't settle this writer's strike, the studios need to accpe the writers demands and get back to work otherwise they will find people are too busy with Wii to watch TV

B movies are still out there, in fact theres still a very large and thriving independent film industry out there. You just got to know where to look because a lot of them tend to stay out of the theaters and go straight to DVD now a days. Its kind of like with music industry also, you take more time to look to find quality and originality these days.

Heres an idea that i sometimes do. Go to Blockbuster, and pay attention to those movies they stick in between the big new releases that they have only a couple of copies off. Sometimes you can find a good original flick in there between the big budgets and cheezy soft core porn films, haha.

Oh, also speaking of the video game industry, yes its dull, and the Wii has brought some innovation, but not much in the way of originality. As much as people want to say it has, thats not really the case as most of the big selling games are very much shallow games (i.e. Wii Sports, Mario Party, pretty much even the Super Mario Galaxy is a shallow game. Anyone who argues otherwise has never played any other Mario in their life and didnt realize the Princess has been kidnapped multiple times before and Mario has been sent to save her every time as well)

What im waiting for is some games with some really deep storytelling and gamplay to come out on the Wii, rather then all these cheap crap mini games companies are trying to put out there for a quick buck.

The Wiis control is a start to innovation, but until they start actually trying to make decent games that rely more on just the innovative control scheme of the Wii, then it will continue to be just like the rest of the videogame industry.

F blockbuster. I'm a netflix man :-p

I wish I could go to a drive in or a movie theatre or something and be able to watch a B movie for really cheap (i.e 5 bucks instead of 10 bucks a ticket) There's something to be said about the movie going experience.

That's another thing-- with the price of tickets going up, I think most people are more apt to just wait for the DVD to come out instead.

They should make a movie about how great the DS is.

i think they will continue to make sequels and rehashes but i dont think it will go the way of the gaming industry

Good point, but its the other way around. The games industry is becoming more like the movie industry - more sequels, bigger budgets, risk adverse, etc.

Movies were like this way before games industry got there. I mean US movies, obviously.

Cinema is going 3D (consoles did that 2 generations ago!!).  Many big names are behind the technology and as all theatres worldwide will eventually support digital projection, they will display films in 3d.

Cinema has been loosing out to DVD, VHS and TV since the 50s (when TV was introduced).  Back then cinema was far more popular than what is is today, TV took away millions from the studious so they were forced to respond with Colour, Widescreen, Stereo sound and Surround sound. TV and home cinema slowly caught up so now cinema has to push ahead again.

Grindhouse was an attempt to bring back the 70s B-Movie experience but it bombed in America which saw its worldwide release ruined.  Film was split into two and released seperatly. (UK had Death Proof but Planet Terror has gone straight to DVD!) (BBFC has just classified 192min version so hopefully it will get a limited release)

Grindhouse made for $53,000,000 and did $50,187,789 (worldwide)

Superbad was made for $17,500,000 and did $167,463,226 (worldwide)

Spider-Man 3 made for $258,000,000 and did $891,930,303 (worldwide)

PotC: Dead Mans Chest $150,000,000 and did $1,065,659,812 (worldwide)

Yes movie budgets are on the increase, tons of money is spent on marketing but it usually pays off just look at the numbers!  Producers/studios do not like taking a risk (if it aint broke dont fix it!) so sequals and huge promotions are not going anywhere just yet.

Games industry is not in trouble like cinema as it is still seeing huge growth but this generation is different from previous.