“Lilo & Stitch” has once again placed first on the box office charts. According to studio estimates Sunday, the hybrid live-action Disney movie added $63 million in domestic ticket sales.
That has never been true at all. Good movies can flop at the box office, and mediocre or outright bad movies can make $1 billion. Your last paragraph is 100% correct. Box office is a measure of popularity, not quality.
How is what a movie makes matter to the audience?
It means we will get similar movies like this one, for example.
When you buy a movie ticket, you are casting your vote for that movie. You’re sending a message to the studio that says, “Yes, we want more films like this.”
The message to take away here is, if people want to see more original, quality-driven movies (and not endless IP-driven sequels and remakes), then they need to go support them at the cinema.
It means we will get similar movies like this one, for example.
That’s a negative feedback loop. All it does is reinforce the decisions of the CEO to pump out more slop. Adding nothing but a new genre or style to their checklist of products to pump out.
The take away is that the economy is fucked and people don’t have the money to watch random shit in the theatre. The CEOs see that as viewer choice and the negative feedback loop is going to turn everything into franchises to be milked.
I guess people don’t have a lot of money to spend on movies so when they go, they go for a safe choice. Personally I haven’t seen any of these remakes in theatres, only go watch a big franchise if it’s something I really enjoy (I absolutely am going to go watch Mission Impossible even though it’s the gazillionth movie) or something new entirely. I actually enjoyed in the lost lands even though it was far from perfect.
That has never been true at all. Good movies can flop at the box office, and mediocre or outright bad movies can make $1 billion. Your last paragraph is 100% correct. Box office is a measure of popularity, not quality.
It means we will get similar movies like this one, for example.
When you buy a movie ticket, you are casting your vote for that movie. You’re sending a message to the studio that says, “Yes, we want more films like this.”
The message to take away here is, if people want to see more original, quality-driven movies (and not endless IP-driven sequels and remakes), then they need to go support them at the cinema.
That’s a negative feedback loop. All it does is reinforce the decisions of the CEO to pump out more slop. Adding nothing but a new genre or style to their checklist of products to pump out.
The take away is that the economy is fucked and people don’t have the money to watch random shit in the theatre. The CEOs see that as viewer choice and the negative feedback loop is going to turn everything into franchises to be milked.
None of this is voting with your tickets.
Well clearly remakes are what the majority of the audience wants
I guess people don’t have a lot of money to spend on movies so when they go, they go for a safe choice. Personally I haven’t seen any of these remakes in theatres, only go watch a big franchise if it’s something I really enjoy (I absolutely am going to go watch Mission Impossible even though it’s the gazillionth movie) or something new entirely. I actually enjoyed in the lost lands even though it was far from perfect.