Hollywood’s Next Reckoning: Studios Get Real About Runaway Spending on Streaming

[j_sazin]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Is that partially because comedies don’t really benefit much from the big screen? I think spectacle matters if one is to venture to a theater. At least, that’s my opinion.

Yeah I definitely agree with that, and it all factors into how Hollywood is restructuring their business to streaming.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Is that partially because comedies don’t really benefit much from the big screen? I think spectacle matters if one is to venture to a theater. At least, that’s my opinion.

Yeah, there's ZERO benefit for hearing an entire theater full of people laughing at a great joke...

[crutzulee]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Lawrence Fan

But people need it now! That entire whole month will kill them!

babies gotta have their bottles now.

Originally Posted by puffketeer

I am convinced at this point that streaming, for the most part, is the domain of the normies who will only watch what's put in front of them and cannot be arsed to seek things out. it has been left to boutiques to dig up the hidden gems from the major studios' catalogues because the majors themselves are too busy marketing the latest space wizard soap opera for toddlers to slack-jawed scumbags who only watch movies for the glow in the darkened room and think that enjoying popular media is a substitute for a real personality