This is a smart thing we are doing.

Looking at YOU, Williams Street/Warner Bros.

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I’m so fine with them killing off as many franchises as possible. Might force them to make an original movie again.
- They will just reboot it pretending it's original
  
  Case in point: another Battlestar Galactica reboot is apparently in the works.
  
  This 100%. It's still an IP that they own and when it's brought out of the vault it's new to a bunch of people and nostalgic to others
- Hahaha, good one.
- Or just remake even more of the same thing with less diversity overall, like Spider-man & Batman.
- Nothing is original, ever. Because everything is a remix
- It's funny how people say this, yet when original movies come out, nobody goes to see them. Disney is a good example. People removed that Disney only makes sequels and reboots and doesn't make original movies anymore. Yet the original movies they've released over the last 2 years have flopped and people don't go see them. Strange worlds, wish, etc all failed. And the moment they release a sequel it makes a billion in the box office.
  It's no wonder they make more sequels than originals. They'd be stupid and bad at business if they didn't.
  
  But those movies simply weren't good.
  Wikipedia even states that Strange World partly bombed because of poor word-of-mouth (which I definitely believe). And Wish got video essays and articles en masse about how it didn't deliver.

In theory it helps by funneling fans between The Avengers, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, for which they have refined the process of pumping out content and merchandise with lower cost and risk

In practice people just stop going to the movies
But hey, I guess the profit margins are better
- Large corporations rarely innovate and try new things. Most innovation comes from smaller players with limited market share taking risks.
  Large companies buy out smaller ones who create cash cows from taking large risks. The large company then milks the cash cows until they are completely dead.
  The consolidation of studios to a few megacorporations has led to this inevitable end. The solution is simple: break them up. If we have 30 or so similar sized studios competing, we will get better movies/TV again.
- I'm surprised there wasn't a big drop from Netflix and big ass TV's.
  
  There was. If you map that onto the growth in population you'll see that tickets per person has been dropping since about 2000.
  
  I’ve been to like six or seven movies with my partner…
  We’ve been together for 12 years.
  We’ve seen thousands of movies, though—thank you, trackers.
  
  Big ass TVs?
  Doesn't sound sanitary.
  
  2020 kinda accelerated the existing trends and got a majority of people willing to watch films at home instead of in theaters. Before that enough people really enjoyed the theater experience that it wasn't too much of a threat to the business model
  
  Is it a TV that only shows asses or a caked-up TV?

Is this in reference to a particular IP?

Yeah, but think of the profits when people have absolutely forgotten the original release and the movie can just be recast 30 years later and passed off as original.

I get the joke, but what is this from?
- The Refer Madness Musical. It's hilarious. Kristen Bell, Brian Weber, Ana Gastyer, the dude from Tales from the Crypt, and Neve Campbell.

🎶Little Mary Sunshine🎶
I love this movie. Reefer Madness.
- Listen to Jesus Jimmy, Im the face on the shroud of Turin
  Listen to Jesus Jimmy, do I need to test your urine!

Ah yeah the famed “cross generational fandom” upon which Hollywood is so dependent.
Don’t they just put an ad on the side of happy meal box to create the hype they need ?

This movie is hilarious. Never fails to make me smile.

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