James Gunn shared an explanation for why his Superman film will arrive on digital just five weeks after the film released into theaters.This Substack is reader-supported.
While I think the theater ecosystem as it stands is going to die, regardless of what Gunn does, this doesn't engender hope or confidence that studios are going to support them.
Shortsighted and foolish, Hollywood lumbers forward.
When I was watching the Superman movie, it felt as if I was dropped into the middle of an on-going series, the movie picked up somewhere in the middle.
MCU/D+ 2.0. Watch the movie, then you MUST watch a bunch of shows or else you don't know what's happening in the next movie.
It's like Marvel and DC crossover events where you have to buy all the things you don't want to buy to get the story. If you don't, just buy what you want and shut up about not getting a complete story.
That's why I checked out of buying comics. I didn't know what was going on from one month to the next because I couldn't afford (didn't care about) some of the other titles involved in the story.
Superman cost $400m, revenue of roughly $600m. Fantastic 4 cost ~$300m, revenue of ~$500m. Their total loss will be ~$150m. Hollywood has to downsize; their few hits cannot sustain so many bombs. This means cutting salaries. They will no longer be aristocrats talking to peons.
There’s a joke about the c19 killing you and the meta comment is that means it’s working. In the same way, these failures means DIE in Hollywood is working.
It's called COPE.
While I think the theater ecosystem as it stands is going to die, regardless of what Gunn does, this doesn't engender hope or confidence that studios are going to support them.
Shortsighted and foolish, Hollywood lumbers forward.
When I was watching the Superman movie, it felt as if I was dropped into the middle of an on-going series, the movie picked up somewhere in the middle.
MCU/D+ 2.0. Watch the movie, then you MUST watch a bunch of shows or else you don't know what's happening in the next movie.
It's like Marvel and DC crossover events where you have to buy all the things you don't want to buy to get the story. If you don't, just buy what you want and shut up about not getting a complete story.
That's why I checked out of buying comics. I didn't know what was going on from one month to the next because I couldn't afford (didn't care about) some of the other titles involved in the story.
Superman cost $400m, revenue of roughly $600m. Fantastic 4 cost ~$300m, revenue of ~$500m. Their total loss will be ~$150m. Hollywood has to downsize; their few hits cannot sustain so many bombs. This means cutting salaries. They will no longer be aristocrats talking to peons.
This means it’s working.
What is the "it" that's working? I can't tell if you're joking or if I'm missing the "it".
There’s a joke about the c19 killing you and the meta comment is that means it’s working. In the same way, these failures means DIE in Hollywood is working.