Wallace, William Kelley and Pamela Wallace December 3 вЂ“ Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films.Excerpts from the broadcast later pin this date as the day featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. June 5 вЂ“ The Chicago Cubs play the Atlanta Braves in a baseball game at Wrigley Field.Executives said that the films were all very similar and marketed in the same way, offering no variety for audiences.

The glut of youth-targeted films like Return to Oz and The Black Cauldron, and science-fiction comedies like Weird Science, Real Genius, and My Science Project had resulted in a string of failures.

Films offering escapism and pro-America themes like Rambo: First Blood PartВ II and RockyВ IV had also fared well. Only Back to the Future and Rambo: First Blood PartВ II were successful blockbusters, earning more than double the box office of Cocoon. The few films aimed at older audiences, like Cocoon, were surprise successes. Executives were not fond of these films, but the financial rewards were too significant to ignore. There was also a saturation of youth-oriented films targeted at those under 18. the Extra-Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind that many fantasy films had imitated them. Janet Maslin said the fault for this lay partly with Steven Spielberg, who had created such a successful template with films like E.T. Films about fantasy and magic failed, as audiences leaned towards science-fiction.

Industry executives believed the problem, in part, was a lack of original concepts. Despite a record number of film releases, many films failed at the box office, and ticket sales were down 17% compared with 1984. The year was considered an unsuccessful one for film. The top ten 1985 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: See also: List of 1985 box office number-one films in the United States

Death of a salesman 1985