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Total Film magazine ends after 27 years


https://x.com/totalfilm/status/1841518740166377503

posted in here bc G2 is the final cover

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That's a shame.

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They could have dedicated the last issue to a better film

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Wow, that's a shame.

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What's a magazine?

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I never read it but this still makes me sad. I hate to see digital slowly eclipsing print. Thankfully physical books are still going strong.

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tried to buy their mag several times over the years but could never find it here in the States.

we used to have this great newspaper magazine store in the 80s that had periodicals from all over the globe. that's where my dad bought his nudie books.

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It was only a matter of time. I'm surprised EMPIRE is still going.

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I guess Empire be safe for now maybe , TF was always abit redundant as there was always Empire which was the older superior mag. (I used to buy each every month without fail from 90s onward eventually subscribing to both in 00s before realising was just wasting money and cancelled TF). There was a phase a couple years back where Empire went off the rails with BLM/metoo and doing covers with unknown black actors and rainbow flags etc and championing political stuff throughout the issue (also film legend Sean Connery didnt get a memorial cover issue but the Black Panther guy did which irked many film fans so much Empire had to commission a special Connery cover that you had to order from their site), eventually something must've come to a head as the woke/hard feminist editor left (presumably fired) and was replaced by a more 80s action loving guy who brought the mag back to how it had been before she took over, less agenda political/pc stuff more focusing on popular movies current and retro back to the fore with anniversary covers for likes of Terminator, etc . I guess the head office saw the sales decline and took drastic action to save the mag, i know i came very close to cancelling my subscription. (I don't think Total Film went so hard on that metoo/blm phase so at the time maybe it looked like Empire would go and TF would be left as the premier film mag)

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I bought EMPIRE devotedly through the 1990s, but stopped when I started getting all my movie info, news and reviews from the WWW at the tail end of that decade. (I still read the occasional digital edition.) There must still be enough subscribers for the print mag to keep going; for how long is anyone's guess.

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