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> when the also expensive video games market seemed to be doing OK I’m pretty sure ballooning AAA budgets leading to studio death marches, lack of courage to
by Apocryphon 2y ago
> when the also expensive video games market seemed to be doing OK
I’m pretty sure ballooning AAA budgets leading to studio death marches, lack of courage to innovate and deviate from a winning formula, the demise of mid-budget games, etc. have plagued the industry for over a decade now.
Whereas in Olde Hollywood, streaming has eaten its lunch, theaters are struggling to stay afloat, the demise of mid-budget films (when’s the last time you’ve seen a comedy in theaters?), and so on.
The book publishing industry is made up of copyright hawks, I can only assume because the internet has allowed self-publishing and unending amounts of free text to compete with.
This is not a good time for content in any format.
- nilamo 2y ago> (when’s the last time you’ve seen a comedy in theaters?) A month ago, for Beetlejuice2. IMO a comedy is one of the only reasons to still go to a theater. The communal experience of everyone laughing is terrific.
- Apocryphon 2y agoAh, an exception that truly proves the rule. A sequel stuck in production hell for thirty-six years. Granted, it appears to have the mid-budget of what we used to see plenty of (in films such as comedies), but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the Sydney Sweeney rom-com that also came out this year are rarities; it’s been widely known for years that comedies have fallen out of favor from the cinema. (Some say MCU-style superhero quip fests replaced them.) Sample coverage: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/6-reasons-why-comedy-in-film-is-dying/ https://www.escapistmagazine.com/6-reasons-why-comedy-in-fil... https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/comedy-movie-not-dead-business/ https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/comedy-movie-not-dead-busi... https://whatculture.com/film/it-s-official-movie-comedies-are-dead https://whatculture.com/film/it-s-official-movie-comedies-ar... There are opportunities to laugh at the movies, but they tend not to be specifically comedies.