The film, which made $235 million despite costing only $25 million, is an example of the kind of “middle-class” film that Fox 2000 made. One casualty in particular should raise alarm — with fans not just of business-page gossip but of good movies. As part of its streamlining efforts, Disney said it would shutter Fox 2000, a Fox subsidiary, after completing the label’s current production slate. But look more closely and you can see an entire type of “middle-class” movie — one that has become increasingly endangered within the tentpole-centric ecosystem of Hollywood — disappearing with the demise of Fox 2000. Then — to Hollywood’s eternal surprise — they “overperform” when it turns out that people like good movies regardless of our perceived pigeon­holes.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2019 20:52 UTC