Why doesn't Hollywood focus on making blockbusters for less than $20M?
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Date: June 3rd, 2024 11:09 PM Author: Irradiated big-titted stead prole
for a megastudio it actually takes effort to figure out how to minimize costs, and maximize output on minimum costs
easier just to employ a fuckton of bureaucracy and cgi engineers and marketable movie stars to guarantee a $600m+ box office gross after an all-out forcememe campaign
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Date: June 4th, 2024 12:40 AM Author: Marvelous mildly autistic center
No one has ever been able to guarantee box office success. But imagine a young movie exec who dreams of getting rich and having a long career doing cool shit. You can work on some little $20M movie where the range of outcomes looks like:
significant chance of grossing less than $20M and ending your career over a low-ambition movie that nobody saw.
significant chance of grossing $40M where your friends are like "hey nice job!" and your boss puts you on the list of people to fire the next time there's a round of cuts.
modest chance of grossing $80M where your boss is mildly pleased but still passes you over in favor of the guy who made more money shepherding the seventh installment of a series about cars going fast and shit exploding.
0.1% chance you stumble on something like the King's Speech that can be a hit with two actors in a room, cobble together a budget without giving away all the upside, persuade marketable actors to do this project, and get lucky that someone actually sees the movie rather than landing in the realm of #9 on the critics lists, nominated for 2 Oscars, 5-year gap before you get to do another movie because you have no track record of box office success.
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Date: June 4th, 2024 2:47 AM Author: ivory resort brethren
your question amounts to "why can't hamburger joints find a way to generate consistent 20% margins instead of 2% margins" and the answer is that they would if it wasn't super unlikely or hard as fuck. the status quo market outcome itself is answering your question.
someone could maybe figure this out but it would take a constant creative effort to squeeze gems out of tiny budgets. movie studios are big bureaucratic behemoths that are designed to crank out hamburgers for 2% profit pretty dependably. they probably have a budget allocated for “indie” moonshots but they can’t and don’t focus their business on those because the moonshot is by definition not expected to be a success. this godzilla shit would be the exception (and even then they are relying on and paying for franchise rights).
one really good up-and-coming director could maybe pull it off a couple times in a row but by that time he becomes an industry star, he's demanding higher pay and higher budgets, and there goes the studio's engine for 20% returns.
studios are businesses designed to serve you marvel slop from the griddle without too much strenuous creativity or brainpower and they’ll keep doing so as long as it works.
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