Hollywood is trying to appeal to red states and retreating from progressive messaging

[gumby]

Over the past few years, Hollywood has released movies with progressive values, often with little success, according to the New York Times. "Barbie" was a huge success," but "Strange World," "The Marvels" and "The Color Purple" did not do well. Ticket buyers are sending the message: "We just want to be entertained, no homework attached," The Times

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[archersangel]

He cited the movie "IF" as a film that "resonated strongly" with moviegoers in the heartland.

It still flopped though.

[goldenhera]

Right! That movie didn't even break even as far as I know.

[archersangel]

According to Wikipedia the budget was 110 million & it made 186.3 million.
I'm not sure if the "3 times the budget to be successful" thing still applies, but it would need to make 330 million for that. If it's only 2 times the budget, it would be 220.

[automaticpeople]

How is mentioning climate change “excluding” anyone?

[genbu_no_miko24]

Cause they're in the same boat as anti-vaxxers and flat-earth truthers. It's all forced woke made-up liberal hollywood agenda to them.

[skyler_white_yo]

I remember when they started foaming at the movie over that movie with Betty Gilpin, the Hunt(?). Crying that it was left wing propaganda about how republicans would hunt people for sport. Then when the movie came out, they all of a sudden went silent. Because it was really a movie giving a critique on online culture, where we forget that the person on the other end of the screen is a person too, and how people can be radicalized with just a few mouse clicks.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I've been meaning to watch that film.

[march_runaway]

denying science for profit sounds about right tbh

[ebenetwo]

late stage capitalism tea

to quote the better movie

[lovelylaura23]

[daredevilwolf]

so no old guard then you fucks

you know for a side of people that say "fuck your feelings"

they sure like being chatered to

there is literally a scene from the simpsons movie i just watched where green day is like:"Now we want to talk about the enviorment and the crowd immediatdly turns on them and says stop being preachy and one of the members says back :"we're not being preachy"

simpsons predicting the future again

what a shock.sarcasm

[squirrels_oh_no]

I posted my very detailed angry comments about the old guard and netflix's strategy below LMAO

[daredevilwolf]

you and me are on the same page here for sure

[squirrels_oh_no]

[just444]

the way "The Color Purple" imploded is still baffling to me

[daredevilwolf]

what happened exactly?

[just444]

people were expecting it to be a big award player and do well at the box office since it is a familiar IP

and then pretty much no one watched it, the box office numbers were terrible and it really struggeled that award season

[ivn]

The movie was hounded with negative rumors and iirc people hated Oprah during its run. Surely that didn’t help