Maybe this is rock bottom for Hollyweird “comedies”. Maybe the decades long decline in quality will reverse itself.
the studios are insulated against financial disaster from bombs like these.
The 1980s saw a home video boom as the price to own a player/recorder dropped and price-points were lowered (from $90 to $25) on some titles to encourage ownership. Chains like Blockbuster established (partly by buying out mom & pop rental stores and their old inventories).
Cable tv too proliferated with numerous movie channels that weren’t just showing the “recent” (5 year or less) theatrical releases.
There was consolidation of studios (one would fail and a bigger fish would eat it up). The older studios that went away (or were consumed) didn’t last long enough to see a revival of demand for their old product. But the new owners reap the returns.
Today these monopolies have 100 years of still copyright protected product to draw billions or even trillions of revenue on. A $100million loss is a drop in the bucket. The ripples from a pebble.
A start up studio would have to be successful every single time and be able to schedule product so it doesn’t get trounced opening weekend (or week 2, etc) by a megahit like Black Panther or some film.
They’d always be one film away from financial ruin.