Hollywood’s big bank comes from the sale and stream or licensed broadcast of material long after it has left the theaters. 90 years of “product” under copyright on tv, cable, netflix, hulu, amazon prime, DVD, blu-ray, etc.
They are protected from market forces on theatrical failures because of legacy hits and pay-tv channels (the Batman with nipples travesty aired plenty of times on Time-Warner HBO).
They will continue to fund leftist tripe that they know will “tank” because the messaging is important to them. And if it can be pitched as a “historical drama” or “adaptation” then you can expect it to be shown repeatedly in classrooms somewhere down the line.
*** 90 years of “product” under copyright on tv, cable, netflix, hulu, amazon prime, DVD, blu-ray, etc.***
And to think, in the ancient past, such films would be released for the screen, then go to double billing with another movie, then sold for the chemicals in the film, or thrown in a storeroom to degrade.
Then came TV, and a new market to keep degraded films alive. Think of many of the great films of the past in which there are no copies of today.