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Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.

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are they marketing them thoug?, because the only things i hear about are disney remake bullshit and mcu slop
- Mickey 17 was well advertised imo with big names attached. Still bombed.
  
  I'm still confused by what happened with this film. I knew it was coming out, but I didn't get around to seeing it opening weekend, then by Wednesday of the next week the headlines stated that it was leaving theaters and heading to streaming.
  I would have seen it in theaters, but once the streaming was announced I didn't mind waiting another week or two.
  I just saw it and enjoyed it.
  I feel like it didn't have any time to build momentum, just kicked almost straight to streaming.
  
  The problem is the short time windows in theaters and yeah it was a good movie. The fact it was a trump analog hurt it and Paterson is a great actor fuck twilight but the Batman was a great movie and the penguin is a masterpiece of television.
  Black bag didn't get any advertising. The problem is studios have trained their audience to expect slop then they put out a few good original movies for a short time window then point at it and say see audiences don't want original films.
  -- guy that watches original movies every weekend in the theater
  Also studios don't want original movies they want shit that they can make toys for or tie-ins with McDonald's. They also don't want directors with their own vision messing up their synergy with their marketing partners. They want people to put out content not art.
  
  I had the same thought. How were they calling it a bomb after like 5 days? Keep it in theaters long enough for word-of-mouth to spread and things would be different.
  
  I liked the movie, but it had no chance. The budget was way too big. It should never have been given such a big budget.
  I want more mid-budget original movies that actually have a chance of financial success.
  
  I liked it more than i thought i would. But i hate movie theatres way way more to ever go there.
  
  Things are kinda invisible if they don't trend on social media. Hence, meaning no offense to OP, they have not show up in OP's feeds.
  
  This is a shame too, because it was for all intents and purposes a good movie. And I say that as someone who did not like Pattinson as an actor (thanks Twilight).
  
  I didn’t hear about that one almost at all and I go to the theater every week.
  I only knew about it because I like the director and go out of my way to look up interesting movies.
- marketing to asia, asia loves hollywood movies, especialy action ones. thats why they are making slop.

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