• haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    10·
    5 days ago

    The reason I believe sequels are doing good is:

    1. movie theaters have been perverted into massive and expensive hype fests
    2. in strong opposition, past movie theaters were not expensive to go to and got you entertained in a social setting
    3. due to the rise of large chains, small and cheaper theaters have died out.
    4. assumption: the price to rent a movie for your theater will probably be horrendous by now
    5. sequels have kind of a known quality which lowers the hurdle
    6. that means new movies could be watched in smaller theaters and would have to be sustainable for those
    • marcos@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 days ago

      • There used to be dozens of theaters in a city, each one with a different set of contracts playing a different set of movies. Nowadays there are hundreds of movies in a city, all of them with the same set of contracts playing the same 5 movies.

      • Yes, everything is too expensive, what means nobody can afford to take a risk. Not the public, not the theaters, not the studios. (You can see people on this thread commenting that they won’t.)

      • There are what? 3 movie studios nowadays? Or are those 2? Either way, you can’t expect diversity from that.