re: 'The Fall Guy’ Kicks Off Summer Movie Season With Disappointing $28 Million Debut

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Give us original films, they like to say

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Being against original ideas going to the big screen is a wild hill to die on.

These movies get 2 seconds in theaters to make money and get a streaming release that’s a week after the theater run, or in some cases get shelved entirely. There’s a lot larger factors at play here than just “audiences only want big block busters and super hero movies”

Also making 130 million dollar rom com is not the kind of “original ideas” that most were clamoring for more space in the theater to have. It’s so silly to me that these movies have completely irresponsible budgets and barriers to profit, but it’s the audience that gets blamed for not giving them a quarter of a billion dollar for every action movie put out.

The theaters need more volume and the studios need more diverse investments. But instead the goal is to smash a grand slam every at bat and cry at the audience if you swing and miss.

In a healthy movie market this movie is at most 50 mil and is like the 6th movie at the box office to open the summer. Instead we get this feast or famine model where the reaction is “movies are back!” And “movies are dead!” At every big release.