{"id":54971,"date":"2018-08-21T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/21\/the-kids-arent-alright-is-the-ya-movie-boom-over\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:42:55","slug":"the-kids-arent-alright-is-the-ya-movie-boom-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=54971","title":{"rendered":"The kids aren&#039;t alright: is the YA movie boom over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight: only a few years ago young adult fantasy films were massive \u2013 but times, and teenagers, have changedTanya Seghatchian started working at Heyday Films in 1997. Heyday, a new, small studio, had landed a deal with cinematic giants Warner Brothers as their UK eyes and ears. \u201cListen,\u201d a friend told her. \u201cThis deal will only last if you find Warner Bros the equivalent of the Bond franchise.\u201d Seghatchian was disheartened: until she heard of a children\u2019s book about a boy wizard, called Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone: it was the first of a series.Warner Brothers were less sure that a children\u2019s series could be the basis for the blockbuster franchise they envisioned. \u201cFamily entertainment was not at the centre of film culture in the way it is now,\u201d Saghatchian told the Guardian in 2011. \u201cI knew its appeal might reach more than just children.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/aug\/21\/is-the-ya-movie-dead-harry-potter-hunger-games-twilight\" target=\"_blank\">The kids aren&#039;t alright: is the YA movie boom over?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight: only a few years ago young adult fantasy films were massive \u2013 but times, and teenagers, have changedTanya Seghatchian started working at Heyday Films in 1997. Heyday, a new, small studio, had landed a deal with cinematic giants Warner Brothers as their UK eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}