Posted on 03/19/2024 6:56:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
illennial and Gen Z viewers are more interested in original content than franchises and remakes. That's one of the key takeaways from Tubi's annual report, The Stream, which the ad-supported streaming service partnered with The Harris Poll to conduct.
Specifically, the report revealed that of those surveyed, 74% of Gen Z and Millennial participants said they prefer originals to remakes. Additionally, 71% of people surveyed from those age groups said they would like to see more more TV shows and movies on streaming that are either independent or from smaller creators, and 74% said they were interested in seeing more diversity and representation on screen. The survey, conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Tubi in the U.S., took place from Dec. 22, 2023 to Jan. 5, 2024 and surveyed 2,503 adults who streamed at least one hour of video a week.
Of those surveyed, 56% said they stream one to three hours of programming in one sitting, while 40% said they stream three or more hours at a time. Heavy streamers were defined as those who watch 15 hours or more per week. The average consumer subscribed to four different streaming services (with a 3.8 average), and heavy streamers subscribed to five services (with a 4.7 average).
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I stream
You stream
We all stream for original content over franchises
Why watch a stale “Fast and Furious #23” or “Indiana Jones and the Wheelchair of Death”?
There are a lot of foreign shows of interest out there on the streaming services.
“There are a lot of foreign shows of interest out there on the streaming services.”
True dat. I am watching 2 French cop shows, an Irish cop show and a English cop show on pbs masterpiece and acorn. I have a whole list of Aussie , Kiwi, and Brit slang that is finding its way into my teaching.
It isn’t the difference between “franchise” and “original” content, it’s the creative input. So many of the big corporate companies think they can slap a “brand” on poop content—and that “brand” alone will make people buy it.
Right, if they were actually respecting what made the “franchise” content good they would make money off them. But the corporations have no creativity and thus cannot summon the intelligence to think like the content creator, and the people they hire who have creativity, abhore having to fabricate someone else’s content.
Entertainment today is ensnared both by its pride as well as its greed.
Yup.
I can’t think of the last franchise movie I watched — maybe Jurassic Park, and that only through the 3rd film.
Sequels are sometimes justified but they are rarely as good as the lead movie. At this point, long experience has finally taught me that the decline curve is extremely steep.
I think it was Star Wars that broke the spell for me. The first Star Wars movie was a triumph, due mostly to its perfect control of tone. But even in the first trilogy, IMHO, #2 and #3 were lackluster. I soldiered on, however, fearful that I might miss something.
Until I met Jar Jar Binks. That cured me of the sequel disease.
That was a long time ago.
The new jurrasic world movie was bad. I felt like it was an ad for universal studios. Bad cgi and bad puppeteering.
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astounds these folks.
They will pay 20 bucks for it.
How dare they re-boot Road House.
How dare they......
The never leave home generation squatters who live in their parents homes have sooo much more free time than the generations who worked.
“…and 74% said they were interested in seeing more diversity and representation on screen…”
So they want to see more White people then…?
I looked at the trailer for the reboot of “Roadhouse”. Looked to be woke BS.
Something to possibly take a look at on Netflix is a Korean show called physical 100. It has an English dub so you can follow - an elimination show that starts with 100 athletes of all shapes and sizes with men and women competing for a large prize and people who fail at various challenges being eliminated throughout. Interesting show without the back biting and scheming junk of something if Hollywood produced it - the focus is on the athletes and when in teams, the strategy they come up with for how to win. There is one part early on when a female power lifter thought she could be the girl boss and challenged an average guy who just easily handled her in a one on one contest. Reality resulted.
This is an important question but this is actually not a very useful way of asking it. "Diversity" is fine as long as it is subordinated to the story. Of course American movies will be more "diverse" onscreen as the population continues to diversify. BUT -- diversity should be reflective of the reality being portrayed. When and where is a movie set? Diversity does not have the same implications for an American film set in 2024 as it did for a movie set in 1924, 1824 and 1724. Nor, even today, does diversity mean the same thing for a movie set in Montana vs. one set in Chicago or NYC or a small town in West Virginia, Nebraska or Mississippi. Etc.
Diversity is a problem when it is forced into unrealistic settings. There were not a lot of black, asian or Native American Vikings roaming around northern Europe a thousand years ago. Etc. Racial stuntcasting is the problem. The problem is that actors and advocacy groups are interested almost entirely in the job count, so diversity becomes a cynical powerplay and realism is sacrificed.
So what does the 74 percent really think? The way the question is posed, there is one obviously politically correct answer, and most of them probably mouthed that by sheer reflex. The important follow-on question would be about forced, artificial diversity; I doubt that very many respondents would approve of Zulu impis being 60 percent white in a Shaka Zulu movie.
Sacrilege.
Remaking Red Dawn was bad enough.
LOTR is the best franchise movies.
Of course, they are from the Tolkein books and Jackson did quite a fine job bringing the plot vehicles and the characters to life.
Altho, I personally was good with the Diehard movies until Bruce Willis had to retire for a medical issue, where he could no longer remember the scenes and his dialogue.
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