They never really recovered from the 2008 financial collapse. That’s when everything became a sequel/prequel/reboot. Technology and streaming didn’t help but I remember it happening really fast after 2008.
Comment on Barbenheimer is cinema’s most seismic moment in a decade
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 year agoI feel like studios don’t know what to make post Covid, and they are still releasing pre Covid shit. There is this strange space where studios don’t know what to do, then this happened.
abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Matt Stoller has a good article on how vertical integration led to this situation, but I gotta go to bed. The article talks about how Back to the Future and Ghostbusters couldn’t be made today, if anyone wants to go looking for it. It’s very good.