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6 Reasons So Many Movies Are Struggling At The Box Office In 2024 (screenrant.com)
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With ticket sales down and newly released movies hitting streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) services in record time, it's not surprising that films are struggling to make it big in theaters. For comparison, 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road grossed a whopping $45 million over a non-holiday opening weekend, which ultimately led to an impressive $380 million global box office draw. Meanwhile, Furiosa, which is equally well-received, earned just $32 million over the four days that make up Memorial Day weekend. Sadly, Hollywood's slump is becoming much more of a pattern, and there are clear-cut reasons why.

They are:

  1. The Movie Theater Experience Isn't Always Great
  2. Movie Theaters Are Expensive
  3. Bigger Budgets Puts Greater Box Office Expectations On Some Movies
  4. The COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Moviegoing Habit
  5. Audiences Have Been Conditioned That New Theatrical Releases Will Quickly Go To VOD
  6. Streaming Means There's More Choice At Home Than In Theaters
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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 54 points 5 months ago (5 children)

They need one more reason, too many reboots, remakes, sequels and franchise movies.

Also LOL at all the comments on the article saying it’s because movies are woke.

[–] MrFappy@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

People have been saying that about movies for decades now. Ever since the early 00’s when gay culture became significantly more accepted into the mainstream, there has been an overly vocal crowd of bigots who just want their movies to be straight white folks facing problems. It’s just a nice reminder that a large majority of Christians aren’t actually Christian, they’re just hateful and using a centuries old fantasy anthology as an excuse for it.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

that a large majority of Christians aren’t actually Christian

Yes they are, Christian doesn't mean "good person." It mostly means someone who believes that a sinless god-man died, and now they get to go to heaven if they want to.

With the old testiment being a different religion's text, and the new testament being mostly made out of letters that people supposedly wrote to each other, you can make the Bible say basically anything you want it to. It's not a consistent or coherent storyline.

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