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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The reason I believe sequels are doing good is:

movie theaters have been perverted into massive and expensive hype fests
in strong opposition, past movie theaters were not expensive to go to and got you entertained in a social setting
due to the rise of large chains, small and cheaper theaters have died out.
assumption: the price to rent a movie for your theater will probably be horrendous by now
sequels have kind of a known quality which lowers the hurdle
that means new movies could be watched in smaller theaters and would have to be sustainable for those

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There used to be dozens of theaters in a city, each one with a different set of contracts playing a different set of movies. Nowadays there are hundreds of movies in a city, all of them with the same set of contracts playing the same 5 movies.
Yes, everything is too expensive, what means nobody can afford to take a risk. Not the public, not the theaters, not the studios. (You can see people on this thread commenting that they won't.)
There are what? 3 movie studios nowadays? Or are those 2? Either way, you can't expect diversity from that.