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One of the problems is the Writers' Strike of '08, that finally drove a wedge between studios and the spec-screenwriters that GIVE us the Stories Nobody's Ever Heard Of Before Now. The other was Warner's embarrassment of riches in '01, when they had the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series...

Maybe not for an old-school palace theater or a highway cineplex, but I can name what happened to EVERY SINGLE one of my old favorite downtown Boston theaters, and the two pubs that our local college-town theater became. :angry: (And an old forgotten hotel that became a three-floor 20-screen...

And that's one reason AMC is going under without movies or concessions: Chain plexes overbuilt themselves during a 90's movie boom we don't have anymore--now that franchise-hungry studios are cutting back on "middle tier" action movies and romantic comedies to focus chiefly on name brands and...

Those normal, non-core-fan moviegoers who sat through Nolan's "Interstellar and "Paprika" "Inception" just on critical/Oscar peer-pressure have created the image of a snooty filmmaker who's "mindbending" for Mindbending's Sake, and pretentiously Bent Minds have practically destroyed most of...

I can separate the messenger from the message enough to hope that other filmmakers, too, take a stand on whether their movies are shown in questionably healthy theaters. Better filmmakers, with real films we've heard of.

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects. Two months ago, this would be the kind of movie that would go directly to PVOD, end of story.

Marvel and Disney-Star Wars turned nine-figure "Record-breaking weekend box-office numbers!" into literally an industry BUBBLE. Yes, I'm using the word correctly: Like mortgages, dot-coms, Bitcoin and tulips. An economic bubble happens when wishful-thinking becomes the investors' own delusion...

Trolls sold on digital because family-lockdown activities like DoorDash deliveries were still "trendy" in March-- But that faded like everything else, and now the only things selling on PVOD are A) kiddy movies to follow Trolls and Scoob (which are at least "known quantities" for mainstream...

So, um, guessing we're not getting those nine-figure "Record-breaking weekend box-office numbers!" that studios used to be so obsessed with last year at this time, are we? :lol: How EVER will we be able to measure a movie's success??

With studios now having to settle for less, it may end up rewriting the whole studio mentality to what it was before the whole mess started. (Ie., before the whole movie mess started in '01, not the Virus mess.) In the 70's-early 80's, before the rise of the 5-7 screen movieplex, movie theaters...

I can't speak for the current movie (which seems to have only been made because the first two cheaply fell out of copyright with Orion Pictures), but definitely the first movie, and sort of the second movie are...actually pretty cute, really, in a late-80's way. :D Like the first Mike...