Will Smith Says Prestige TV Has Raised the Bar for Blockbusters

[hewontgo]

Will Smith Says Prestige TV Has Raised the Bar for Blockbusters: People Don’t Want to ‘Leave Their Homes’ https://t.co/3LgqRy0UoC
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) June 7, 2024

Will Smith knows any theatrical release is automatically in competition with TV.

“You used to be able to put some explosions in the trailer and a couple of good jokes and people

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[zibbydoo324]

I feel like most movies aren’t marketed properly anymore. Barbie being the clear outlier.
There are so many movies I only hear about as previews at the movies. And I really only go to the movies when I’m visiting my nieces. They still love it. It seems like that is the only place I hear about new movies. Part of that could be how segmented society can be now.

[sandstorm]

crying laughing @ this website not being the place to find new movies apparently

[zibbydoo324]

Crying laughing @ ontd being considered part of movie marketing

[sandstorm]

hey now way back in 2014 Brendan had a deal with disney to announce.....the theatrical release of the frozen singalong.

[bttrsondaughter]

tv is trying to be more like movies, movies are trying to be more like tv. that is the core base issue of pretty much. everything plaguing hollywood right now lol.

at the beginning and the middle, at least we got interesting shit when TV shows leveled up in story telling and in budget. but then it all went to hell and now more and more tv shows are IP or a reboot. and movies. just got worse.

[vanilla_09]

I don't understand why studios just don't go back to making movies on a smaller-mid budget. Like someone explained, it seems that the biggest issue is relying on an algorithm to churn out a hit will obivously cost you more money and higher milestones to recoup. So it's almost like producing movies just for the sake of money when movies are much more about the audience. I think about Minority Report that had a budget on 102 million. The CGI may look a bit wonky by today's standards but they did ALL of that for that budget and we have way better techniques which we could probably recreate for a fraction of the price. Dr. Strange cost 350.6 million and it looks like shit and was so fucking bad.

[sandstorm]

like......well and truly. People saw Challengers (and it could have been cheaper!), not really sure people saw Abigail and I know they didn't se Monkey Man but those are cheap enough to eventually become profitable on streaming.

[justleilah]

Because the return on a monstrous blockbuster drastically outpaces even a wildly successful mid-budget film. And if they lose big money on a film, they put it as a deduction against their other profitable holdings so they reduce the corporate taxes they owe (and often pay nearly zero). As always, it's corporate greed and bottom lines, they don't care about making great films.

[bitchsdangerous]

It costs too damn much to go to the movies and has been the case for years. That was already turning me off to go to the theater.

Then that shooting happened in one and then I heard that the likeliest place to get head lice is from the head rests at the movies so that pretty much cemented my distaste to ever bother with going again.

Add in the fact that it isn’t that long at all now between a movie being in a theater before it’s on streaming and now my homebody self will ALWAYS gladly choose to wait for something to hit streaming so I can be cozy, ugly, and eat whatever the fuck I want at home and enjoy a film at my desired volume and in peace.

And yes, I find so many series shows much better than any of the crap the studios put in theaters nowadays. This obsession with superhero movies really killed it completely for me.

[evilyn_1007]

He’s right about movies competing with TV in a way that it did it before. I’m paying for various subscriptions and those now have original movies that have the same budget as movies that are in the theater. Even big blockbusters. I’m getting that theater only type of Movie at home. Even the actors that you would think would never do a TV movie are OK with doing a streaming movie