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[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Except Top Gun Maverick is heading for what, $2billion? People will go out to see stuff they want to see, and will go again if they like it.

Disney plus is losing billions, apparently it’s bundled with other products really heavily so it doesn’t actually pull in the money to cover the costs of production. I get my sub free with my mobile phone contract.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah people have been talking about the movie industry dying for years but frankly I don't think that's the case. Downsizing? Shifting? Definitely. I think these animated family movies especially will do worse and worse due to costs. But pop them up at a budget theater that charges $5 a pop? They'll do ok.

I think for the top cost high budget movies they need to lean into the big screen spectacle to attract people to the theater. But I think people will still go see movies in the theater even with the prominence of streaming, you just have to make movies that people actually are willing to pay to watch.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Honestly, the problem ties into u/ClassroomPast6178 's example, as well as examples like how anime movies have grown from "special event showings" to getting regular theatrical releases- the movies that are succeeding now are the type of thing that ties to a fanbase who's dedicated and hardcore enough they will still go to the theater to see. (This even ties to Top Gun Maverick, since a high-action, high-spectacle, high- 'MURICA movie like Top Gun is the type of thing people who think COVID is a lib'rul plot to take mah FREEDOM and everyone who died of it is secretly alive and chilling out on a island near where the earth's edge is would jump at seeing.)

The spectacle aspect is going to be a good question for the Avatar sequels, since the first Avatar was basically 100% spectacle and effectively nothing else and even people who see it know that (and 3D movies going out of style in recent years ties into this, since Avatar's sequels can't possibly be as much of a spectacle as the first one without 3D.)

[–]Countach_3D 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It does appear that Avatar 2 will be in 3-D though.