There are so many bad movies. Can’t they tell the movie is a bomb by just reading the scripts?
I’m convinced that Hollywood doesn’t care if a movie is good or not. They only care if they can get it made and distributed in such a way that it’ll end up being profitable once the international markets are factored in.
My sister and her then-boyfriend were in a movie that was produced by his parents on a small budget and it hit some art house theatres locally, then went immediately overseas because that’s basically a guaranteed return on the investment.