Articles like this one at Deadline Hollywood, or this one at CNN.com try to give “reasons” for films not doing as well at the box office as studios would like. With the latest comic book-adapted epic The Flash currently sitting at $64M for its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo, the conversation has started up again. And entertainment industry press never gets to the far more understandable reasons more people didn’t see a movie in the theaters. Few in Hollywood want to acknowledge franchise fatigue or the lack of originality in the stories they’re selling us. If either of them had been released in theaters, those would’ve been films that would’ve gotten me to leave the house.

Source: CNN June 20, 2023 15:46 UTC