Even if it somehow doesn't drop off it's still a broken franchise long term. Look at the TMNT reboot. That did well, actually took the top spot for Guardians, people liked it but it still dropped like a rock and its sequel did even worse. These kind of movies are almost always front loaded and almost never last.
The contract only extends to Far From Home. Feige and Pascal both said so.
I have been saying that's the smartest thing to do for Sony.
Perhaps it'll have a strong hold because people who missed out this week will want to see for themselves how terrible it is.
So have romantic comedies stopped being profitable? The newest release out of the top five there, released over 13 years ago.CRA is gonna break into top 5 Rom Coms of all time
What a jump from Spider-Man 2 to 3. The hype around that movie was insane at the time.
I mean yeah exactly how long it lasts matters a lot. For example there wasn't a single fresh rated Transformers film that series still made billions and lasted a long time before that issue poisoned the well.
Is that a real screen from the end of the film?100m budget, 200m made after three days. I expect a hard sudden drop next weekend but they've pretty much already made their money.
Yeah, the first three Transformers films sort of came at a time where quality didn't have that much of an impact on franchise health and the series basically died the second it did. Nowadays people pay attention to reviews and word of mouth and there's many things competing for your time that a bad/mediocre movie flat out isn't worth it unless it's a curiosity piece (which I argue Venom is). I don't see this franchise, or the number of movies Sony has cooking up lasting that much longer.
"One of the things that I think is so amazing about this experience is that you don't have studios deciding to work together to make a film very often. In fact it may never happen again, after we do the sequel. Because Sony, and Disney, and Marvel all decided that the right thing to do was to allow Peter Parker and Spider-Man to be in the MCU and to work with the Marvel guys and have them produce this film. And I think that was a very rare thing for three companies to do, and a very brilliant thing for them to decide to do because there are only so many stories that you can tell again and again and again about Spidey, and this is something that we would have never been able to do in any other way. So it was a very selfless thing that very smart on the part of all the companies." - Amy Pascal
You're trying really hard to convince yourself that this is 100% what's going to happen.
Can't pin that on me, predicted a $100 million opening because of trailer views+social media engagement, but a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes
Lifetime/ ABC Family ate up that market, no one makes mid tier movies anymore, and Rom Coms don't have a great ROI in an era where the concept of a movie star has died a bit.
