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[-] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 months ago

American audiences are no longer the sole demographic for Hollywood. The audience is global, and high budget films are planned with that in mind. The lowest common denominator is the result.

During his Academy Award speech, Cord Jefferson (who won for the American Fiction screenplay) argued for more low-budget films at the cost of a single big-budget mess. More movies means more types of stories, allowing more niches to be filled. It also creates more industry jobs, and deepens the bench with talent development.

The best way to come up with good ideas is to figure out how to have a lot of ideas in the first place.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The movies of the late 90s are great examples of this. Dozens of different types of new stories made on what are now considered very low budgets. The problem is that without the home video and TV markets those sorts of movies don't make any money. So many 90s classics didn't make much at the box office but made bank on home video or with licensing.

Market conditions have changed, and the product needs to change with it. Just like how MTV hasn't been "music television" for a long, long time.

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