Comment on Sam Raimi to direct ‘Doctor Strange 3'

• circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Popularity is financial success.

  These aren’t indie arthouse flicks, they’re enormous investment vehicles for the studios, and they’re failing.

  They’re failing because they aren’t popular anymore, not enough people care about them to sustain the studios in the medium or long term.

  When I said no one was watching them, you conveniently found that to be a very literal argument. When clearly in this context “no one’s watching them anymore”, refers to their box office receipts relative to their cost to produce.

  So, to answer my own question in the appropriate context, no, no one’s watching them anymore. But to answer in terms you’ll understand, the audience has shrunk so much that they’re no longer consistent profitable investments. Which is why they’ve scrapped so many projects, including multiple shows that has already began production.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I disagree wholeheartedly with you that financial success is a direct measure of popularity, but I think we’ll just be talking past each other on that. If you were referring to their financial success, I think that’s what you should have said to make your point, as that’s not at all what I took from your original comment. I’m very done with this though, because I really don’t care anymore. Cheers.

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    • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That was a lot of effort to prove 9 million is more than 0. But this is the world now I guess.

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