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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
Using Batman as a real world example for the decline in physical media sales:
The Dark Knight - made $300 mill in home video sales
TDKR - $158 mill
Batman V Superman - $82 mill
The Batman - $17 mill
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And if you were to see the inverse rise in streaming dollars, I'm betting it doesn't make up the difference (hopefully those numbers are inflation adjusted?).
The studios used to make their bank on these big movies, which allowed them to fund a ton of smaller films that probably wouldn't make very much. That economic model is gone now, and unfortunately the film industry is struggling to produce quality in anything that isn't a giant blockbuster...and even then the quality is suspect a lot of the time.
That's why I yearn for those days because that was the peak economic model for movies. It gave a ton of opportunity for young filmmakers to break into the industry with low budget fare. Movies like Swingers or Clerks aren't being made now.