Sideshow: Steven Spielberg says superhero movies won't last
Spielberg: It won't last Superhero movies may dominate the box office right now, but the genre will soon be as dead as a dodo, as extinct as the dino.
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Spielberg: It won't last
Superhero movies may dominate the box office right now, but the genre will soon be as dead as a dodo, as extinct as the dino.
So Hollywood's premiere filmmaker, Steven Spielberg, tells the Associated Press.
"We were around when the western died and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the western," says Spielberg, whose Cold War spy thriller, Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, opens Oct. 16. "These cycles have a finite time in popular culture."
Spielberg, 68, says he also believes the proliferation of mega-budget films may lead to the "implosion" of the film industry.
It's been nearly three years since Spielberg released his last film (2012's Lincoln), but he says he has more time to devote to work now that he and wife Kate Capshaw have sent off the last of their seven kids to college. (They have six together; one is Kate's from her first marriage.)
"Number seven went to college last week," Spielberg says, referring to the couple's youngest, 18-year-old Destry Allyn Spielberg. Two new films are already in the works: an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG and sci-fi adventure Ready Player One.
Prince: Bad time for music
There is a conspicuous lack of originality and creativity in pop music today, says Minneapolis' prince of funk 'n' pop, Prince.
"There might be music that sounds like me, but what good is that? You're essentially in the feedback loop," Prince tells the New York Post about all the darned imitators making music today. "It's a bad time for music in general. There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening." Prince's new LP, HITNRUN, is due Monday.
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