- The award-winning director Chris D. Martinez aired his sentiments about the current situation of the local film industry
- He also wished for a miracle to happen to cure the current situation of the local film industry
- Netizens shared their insights about the factors that affected the decline of our local film industry
Award-winning director Chris D. Martinez aired his sentiments about the dire condition of the local film industry. In his post, he pointed out the monopoly in film distribution as one of the causes of the said problem.
“The death of Philippine Cinema started when the malls monopolized film distribution. When SM decided not to screen for mature audiences, for me, that was the nail in the coffin.”
He also blames the senior gatekeepers in the industry for doing the wrong decisions in the past.
“Our ‘senior gatekeepers’ in the industry allowed this to happen. What’s happening now is we’re suffering the consequences. It was bound to die. Hopefully, it’s a slow death.”
At the end of his post, he stressed that what we need in the current situation is a miracle to cure the situation.
“Or some kind of miracle happens.
A miracle that will control, if not eliminate, all our greed.”
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The netizens also shared their insights about the current situation of the local film industry. Some blamed the expensive ticket prices and some shared that they just want to be more practical.
While another relate the situation in the US, where the film giants dominated the industry.
A certain netizen pointed out that it’s because of piracy that moviegoers lost interest on watching movies in cinemas.
Another netizen feels that it’s because of the genre of the movie that is being shown that makes the local films less interesting and not marketable; while another one agreed that it’s because of the cinema owners and distributors who started killing the local film industry.
