The Great Gatsby - release date May 16th

Then how do you account for the 1949 remake? Hardly a gilded age or a market top. What social factors and prevailing attitudes do you think made the studio think that was the time to move on it. Maybe they thought they would have a box office success and maybe that is the prime factor in their equation?

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What social factors and prevailing attitudes makes a studio think that a Gatsby remake would be a good idea in the first place? For example, extreme popular interest in wealth and spending?
 
On pace for close to 50 million on opening weekend. If that's a bomb, I should have gone into movie making. LOL.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/the...hows-breaking-record-for-female-driven-films/

However, to bring this back full circle, I think this says more about the correlation to the market.

http://observer.com/2013/05/a-trium...tsby-founders-miserably-on-the-silver-screen/

After you read that review and then you read about how well it's going to do financially, it tells you a lot about our society. That junk sells! We have a Fed driven market at record highs and a pretty much across the board critical slam on this film as it cashes in close to $50 million opening weekend. Only in America kids.
 
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