Re: Oscars
Everything has changed.
The mid-budget dramatic feature no longer exists.
Streaming is doing nothing. Netflix is making Adam Sandler movies and Max Landis nonsense (and also, in my opinion, embarrassing themselves and damaging their brand by picking up distribution on other studio's mistakes-- like Mute).
The old blockbuster model was that a film like Back To The Future or Jurassic Park or Titanic was allowed to open in a moderate number of theaters and remain there for months on end. It was not an ALL or NOTHING game. The summer that Jurassic Park came out there were a bunch of successful mid-budget studio films, like The Firm and The Fugitive and In The Line Of Fire (every one of them an Oscar-nominated blockbuster). There was room at the party for everybody.
The great irony of this whole situation is that the very thing that was supposed to make mid-budget films MORE feasible (no more shooting on film and no more paying for film prints) has had a hand in killing them. Disney can open a film like Black Panther on 10,000 screens globally without the risk of paying for film prints on spec.
Not only are they making more money, but they're making more money.
If the Disney / Fox deal goes through, there's going to be 5 - 10,000 people unemployed, but no one cares because the X-Men can FINALLY be in The Avengers movies. Yay.
Originally posted by ScreenRider
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The mid-budget dramatic feature no longer exists.
Streaming is doing nothing. Netflix is making Adam Sandler movies and Max Landis nonsense (and also, in my opinion, embarrassing themselves and damaging their brand by picking up distribution on other studio's mistakes-- like Mute).
The old blockbuster model was that a film like Back To The Future or Jurassic Park or Titanic was allowed to open in a moderate number of theaters and remain there for months on end. It was not an ALL or NOTHING game. The summer that Jurassic Park came out there were a bunch of successful mid-budget studio films, like The Firm and The Fugitive and In The Line Of Fire (every one of them an Oscar-nominated blockbuster). There was room at the party for everybody.
The great irony of this whole situation is that the very thing that was supposed to make mid-budget films MORE feasible (no more shooting on film and no more paying for film prints) has had a hand in killing them. Disney can open a film like Black Panther on 10,000 screens globally without the risk of paying for film prints on spec.
Not only are they making more money, but they're making more money.
If the Disney / Fox deal goes through, there's going to be 5 - 10,000 people unemployed, but no one cares because the X-Men can FINALLY be in The Avengers movies. Yay.
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