Posted on 07/09/2017 5:37:26 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Each month brings a fresh headline containing Hollywood's favourite new buzzphrase, "franchise fatigue." As big-budget sequels from The Mummy to Transformers: The Last Knight stutter to a halt, the consensus reached by news coverage suggests a collective, audible yawn from audiences, as they grow weary and tired of recycled and repackaged films. But is franchise fatigue really a pressing issue for movie studios to address, or is it nothing more than a buzzphrase, a product of anti-franchise bias?
The full story of #boxoffice trends is complex and impossible to define in two words alone (lucky for you, this article has almost one-hundred times more). There are a whole host of factors in play: domestic performance, international success, profits made in comparison to the film's budget, marketing costs... it's dizzying, isn't it? In an attempt to find answers and quash the vertigo, I spoke to Doug Stone from Box Office Analyst, who has jumped headfirst into the ocean of numbers to make sense of it all.
Before we share Doug's findings, it's worth exploring why the term has surfaced in the first place. A significant majority of the top-grossing movies in recent years were created from the foundation of an already-existing concept or shared universe, and while sequels and reboots have been a part of Hollywood for years, franchises have elbowed their way to the front of the blockbuster queue, and stubbornly dug their heels into the ground. Their consistent rise in popularity has been helped by the boom of comic book adaptations and the super-profit serum of the MCU, which has made Disney almost $12 billion from 15 movies since 2008.
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Is it too soon to ask for a sequel to Team America?
Ebert Review: Team America (1-star)
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 10/15/2004 | Roger Ebert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245726/posts
...Opposing Team America is the Film Actors’ Guild, or FAG, ho, ho, with puppets representing Alec Baldwin, Tim Robbins, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn (who has written an angry letter about the movie to Parker and Stone). No real point is made about the actors’ activism; they exist in the movie essentially to be ridiculed for existing at all, I guess. Hans Blix, the U.N. chief weapons inspector, also turns up, and has a fruitless encounter with the North Korean dictator. Some of the scenes are set to music, including such tunes as “Pearl Harbor Sucked and I Miss You” and “America — F***, Yeah!”
If I were asked to extract a political position from the movie, I’d be baffled. It is neither for nor against the war on terrorism, just dedicated to ridiculing those who wage it and those who oppose it. The White House gets a free pass, since the movie seems to think Team America makes its own policies without political direction.
I wasn’t offended by the movie’s content so much as by its nihilism. At a time when the world is in crisis and the country faces an important election, the response of Parker, Stone and company is to sneer at both sides — indeed, at anyone who takes the current world situation seriously. They may be right that some of us are puppets, but they’re wrong that all of us are fools, and dead wrong that it doesn’t matter.
Hollywood has no imagination, no creativity. If it’s not filthy, depraved, or nothing but special effects they have nothing.
Beautiful writing is dead, uplifting stories find no home, they don’t know us, how can they write for us?
I really loved the first season of TURN, but a couple of episodes into the second, I had to stop watching. The villain in that series is so twisted and sadistic I just couldn’t deal anymore.
I read Ringworld back in the late 70s, great book!
There are no decent comedies anymore :(
Just poopy jokes
No sophistication
Simcoe?
Yeah he’s a prig
that is because fools like rogan etc are all stoned out of their minds.
“That movies have to be politically correct these days is part of the problem. Writers are boxed into less innovation and free thinking. Makes movies boring!”
I would be willing to bet eleventy billion dollars that if they made a real remake of Blazing Saddles in 100% UN-PC glory without F’ing it up, that it would be the highest grossing movie of all time
the sadistic character, simco, is the European view of the colonialists (aka Americans)
you may want to try out the new episode where Arnold wife is pregnant and the spy has gone undercover in the british army after his father was killed.
Thanks, I’ll watch tomorrow.:D
Re: movie about Betty Zane
Zane Grey wrote a novel about Betty Zane; it might make a good outline for such a script.
In fact, Many of his westerns would make good movies, and have made good movies in the past. The only one I can think of recently is “Riders of the Purple Sage”, with Ed Harris (I think) as Lassiter.
I go to the movie spoiler site and read the movies on there. People post complete spoilers of movies. I prefer to read them and it saves me the money and grief of going to the theater.
James Bond has suffered very little from franchise fatigue over 5 decades now. So I guess subject matter plays a bigger role than just being a franchise.
Blazing Saddles could not be made today.
I drafted a longer response last night but FR timed out on me. I may get a chance to try to re-do it this evening.
A quick response to one of your points:
>> People looking for history lessons will get more out of a book.
Young adults apparently don’t read books. Quick blog grab since I don’t have time to dig out the base story this morning: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/06/27/many-college-students-are-book-virgins/
CGI has destroyed Cinema
Avatar was the most over hyped POS Propaganda ever foisted on the film goer
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