Hollywood Breaks Record With 15 Big Budget Flops in One Year - Polidicks

[quote]Global box-office receipts are up slightly from a record-setting 2015. Yet Hollywood is having one of its glummest summers in a long time. So far, this year has included roughly the same number of hits as 2015, but many more flops and moderate disappointments. Some movies that fell short of studios’ big expectations are “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,” “Independence Day: Resurgence,” “The Legend of Tarzan” and “Ghostbusters.” Most of these movies cost more than $100 million and some close to $200 million. There have been 15 big-budget disappointments or flops so far in 2016, compared with eight at the same point in 2015. “There are only so many available dollars in the marketplace,” said Kevin Goetz, president of consulting firm Screen Engine. “These big movies can’t all work at the level that the studios need them to in order to justify their tremendous budgets.” Searching for the next blockbuster hit that could stand out in a saturated, winner-take all media landscape, studios have packed this year’s release calendar with sequels, reboots and superhero adaptations. Most have fallen short of their backers’ big ambitions. That could result in write-downs and losses for major studios, but also bigger profits for those that produce the few breakthrough successes. The unimpressive performance of so many movies casts doubts on studios’ plans to use them to launch sequels and spinoffs of their own in the years to come. In an era when every studio is aiming to grab attention and profit through such franchise films, it calls into question whether the result will be more hits, or simply more roadkill.[/quote] [url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/rising-box-office-masks-glut-of-big-budget-film-flops-1471192593]WSJ[/url] As summer winds down, we look forward to next summer, which includes the following. [quote]Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Baywatch The Nut Job 2 Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Wonder Woman The Mummy World War Z 2 Cars 3 Kingsman 2 Transformers 5 Despicable Me 3 Uncharted Spider-Man: Homecoming War for the Planet of the Apes Dunkirk Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Jumanji Alien: Covenant The Emoji movie It[/quote]

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Kingsman 2 Spider-Man: Homecoming Dunkirk Only ones I have any expectation of them being good. Like, I'm sure Transformers and the animated movies and probably Pirates of the Caribbean will all do well enough to avoid being considered flops, but not actually good.

I remember someone posting a video that had a breakdown about how piling up on big budget movies is a bad idea Any who if their is a god, Transformers 5 would flop.

Surely that means something will start spinning in their heads, telling them to stop making bad remake movies nobody asked for, that shit all over the fans? [QUOTE]The Emoji movie[/QUOTE] Fuck me I forgot about this

Uncharted movie next year? Pllllllleeease don't suck.

Maybe Hollywood could take the fucking hint now. [QUOTE=Loadingue;50933941]Uncharted movie next year? Pllllllleeease don't suck.[/QUOTE] They could just take footage from the game and release in it theaters and it would be the best video game adaptation.

[t]https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/screen-shot-2016-06-20-at-6-45-40-pm.png?w=800[/t] Can't wait. Wait why is the nutjob getting a sequel, I thought that was a huge flop?

On that list, I see a lot of sequels to movies that shouldn't have sequels.

Why in the world would you spend a big budget on a emoji movie?

Is there a single original idea on that list?

[QUOTE=SinjinOmega;50933964]Why in the world would you spend a big budget on a emoji movie?[/QUOTE] Watch as it makes mega bucks while something more intelligent like Planet of the Apes fails.

[QUOTE=SinjinOmega;50933964]Why in the world would you spend a big budget on a emoji movie?[/QUOTE] It's a Sony special. They paid six to seven figures for the film rights, and plan to offset the cost by making a Wreck-It Ralph rip off with 200% more paid advertising/product placement.

[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;50933986]It's a Sony special. They paid six to seven figures for the film rights, and plan to offset the cost by making a Wreck-It Ralph rip off with 200% more paid advertising/product placement.[/QUOTE] Sony making all the right moves lately.

it's almost as though the films industry is hitting saturation point with sequels and reboots, to the point that even the general public is starting to get sick of them

Wait, there's going to be a new Jumanji movie? How in the hell are they gonna pull that one off without Williams?

[QUOTE=pentium;50934074]Wait, there's going to be a new Jumanji movie? How in the hell are they gonna pull that one off without Williams?[/QUOTE] Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;50934064]it's almost as though the films industry is hitting saturation point with sequels and reboots, to the point that even the general public is starting to get sick of them[/QUOTE] At the very least I think we hit the saturation point for superhero flicks in the last year or two..

Despicable Me 3 could be nice, I actually like those movies, fuckin' hate the minions, but when I saw the other two with younger family they were sweet and decently funny. Could do much worse for a kids movie these days.

[QUOTE=Gwoodman;50934083]Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson[/QUOTE] :scream:

Honestly, this is the product of (dumb) studios thinking then can brute force a shitty script with a huge budget.

[QUOTE=download;50934089]Honestly, this is the product of (dumb) studios thinking then can brute force a shitty script with a huge budget.[/QUOTE] Also trying to make everything into a fucking MCU ripoff, like a Ghostbusters Cinematic Universe? Even if the movie was good, or hell, even fucking amazing, better than the original [I]somehow[/I], I couldn't see that working as a concept. Didn't they want to do that with the Jungle Book too IIRC? The only people it seems to be working for is Marvel, and I have faith in Star Wars pulling it off, but a movie needs to be fucking epic to have an entire universe of followups and spinoffs. I'm surprised we haven't seen plans to announce movies based on The Silmarillion yet, seems like perfect milking opportunity for more LotR movies.

[Quote]The Mummy [/quote] What the fuck? Why???

Audiences are sick and tired of their favourite old movie franchises being butchered by hollywood, they're also sick and tired of great movies like Ben-Hur being again, butchered with a stupid remake There's no fresh IP's coming out and the ones that are suck because they will not be relevant 5-10 years down the line Hollywood will crash and Netflix will boom

I can't speak for everyone, but I'm sick and tired of everything being a "cinematic universe" nowadays. A Ghostbusters Cinematic Universe? Consisting of what? Ghostbusters and more Ghostbusters? Were they planning on doing a Slimer origin story?

[QUOTE=Dwarfy77;50934101]Also trying to make everything into a fucking MCU ripoff, like a Ghostbusters Cinematic Universe? Even if the movie was good, or hell, even fucking amazing, better than the original [I]somehow[/I], I couldn't see that working as a concept. Didn't they want to do that with the Jungle Book too IIRC? The only people it seems to be working for is Marvel, and I have faith in Star Wars pulling it off, but a movie needs to be fucking epic to have an entire universe of followups and spinoffs. I'm surprised we haven't seen plans to announce movies based on The Silmarillion yet, seems like perfect milking opportunity for more LotR movies.[/QUOTE] Sony is desperate for a franchise, they were depending on Ghostbusters being a hit. They're going down the toilet.

The film industry is showing it's pretentiousness with all these 'cinematic universes'. I hope one day it becomes frowned upon in the industry to do remakes. Honestly this is getting ridiculous.

After reading this, I'm not all that hopeful for Power Rangers 2017. I just hope that at least the movie zords look alright regardless of the movie flopping or not.

[QUOTE=Intermission;50934142]Sony is desperate for a franchise, they were depending on Ghostbusters being a hit. They're going down the toilet.[/QUOTE] Maybe they should have focused on making it a good movie then instead of trying to convince people seeing it or not was some kind of political statement.

The Apes Reboot is great, and nothing thus far suggest that War is going to be a steaming pile of hollywood shit. Sue me.

[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;50934109]What the fuck? Why???[/QUOTE] And Tom Cruise is taking over for Brendan Frasier too.