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> Yes, but I think it's safe to say that there were a lot more original movies a few decades ago than there are now. Hollywood used to take more risks. It's ha
by majormajor 7y ago
> Yes, but I think it's safe to say that there were a lot more original movies a few decades ago than there are now. Hollywood used to take more risks.
It's harder to get people to go to the theater due to a bunch of factors like improved TV tech and increased competition for time, but "hollywood" is also capitalizing on those things. Look at how many original series are on Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, etc, and compare that to what we had 30 years ago between theaters and TV.
- scarface74 7y agoNot according to the numbers. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/?view2=ytdcompare https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/?view2=ytdcompare
- TylerE 7y agoThat doesn't take inflation into account though. You'd expect it to go up 3-4% in $ terms even if sales were the same. That the number is actually flat over the last 4 years does mean sales are down a bit. The $6.05B 2016 figure would be about $6.45B in 2019 dollars. Box office trends have been shifting over the last decade or so... the big blockbusters (superhero movies especially) are bigger and bigger, but the mid-budget stuff that was a mainstay of the 90s and early 2000s (think stuff like Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler movies) is getting squeezed pretty hard. To give one look at the distribution.... last year the 100th best performing movie did ($21.7M / $700M) = 3.1% of the #1 movie. In 2010, ($26.5M / $415M) = 6.38% In 2000, ($18.7M / 260M) = 7.19%