Jude Law Misses Era Of Mid-Budget Movies

[hewontgo]

Jude Law Misses Era Of Mid-Budget Movies: "The Heart Of Filmmaking" https://t.co/pd9GAFWj2w
- Deadline (@DEADLINE) November 30, 2024

Despite roles in such major franchises as Harry Potter, MCU and most recently, Star Wars, Jude Law is nostalgic for a bygone era of Hollywood.

“I mean, I feel very lucky that when I came into this business, they

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[thrysus]

Anthony Minghella is a really good example. Ripley was a perfect candidate for a mid-budget movie, and same with Truly Madly Deeply. You're looking at a wide gulf between low-budget indies and huge blockbusters, currently, and the only people who can exist outside of those two poles are the directors whose name brings at least some people in--and even they have to genuflect before Netflix or Apple and producers and distributors unless they want to shove their own money into getting something off the ground.

Idk, I think it's a pretty bad time for cinema right now. :/

[burntxtoashes]

I agree. It def feels like there's less risks with cinema now? Blockbusters are often reboots/remakes or stuff like Marvel/DC that already has a big fan base, and streaming services seem quite low budget and formulaic with trying to follow the Hallmark/Lifetime model.

It's not mid-budget, but I really miss a big budget romcoms.

[alwayspolaris]

I feel like most of the best romcoms were close to midbudget. They had at most two bigger stars, no sfx, no sets to build. Like Independence Day was $75 million, and She's All That was ~$7 million (these were just the first two I thought of).

I need modern romcoms to a. have messier characters and b. have messier sets. I'm tired of all these bland Hallmark-esque women living in cold, catalog houses. Also they need to quit it with these tradwife endings, I want the woman to have an even better job/be on her way to college by the end of the movie lol.

[deerlike]

Yeah, what's annoying to me is that even blockbusters nowadays are the same-old IPs (usually superhero), whereas back then we'd get blockbuster movies like Phone Booth, or Collateral, or Inside Man: original, exciting stories starring the big names. I guess the political/crime thriller has moved to the television medium now, but I miss those kind of (tautly filmed in the way that only a movie can be) dramatic stories.

[mishane]

Me too!!!! I miss mid budget action thrillers also. So good.

[eronanke]

100% agree.
I miss $30m thrillers. I miss $50m comedies.

[jojito]

We all do

[blackstarnebula]

I feel mid-budget movies are all done by streamers now. None go to theaters unless it’s some indie art house thing

[euraylie]

But streamers do them so badly. It always feels like they go with the first draft, because they don’t have to make the money back at the box office. So it’s a kinda a one and done situation; no finetuning.

[a_files06]

They're direct to video quality