"Novocaine" is off to a good start at the box office with an estimated $8.5 million opening weekend, but the marketplace is in a terrible slump.

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“Novocaine” is off to a good start at the box office with an estimated $8.5 million opening weekend, but the marketplace is in a terrible slump.

  • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Mid budget hasn’t had a place in cinemas since DVDs went out of style. I think that was in the early 2010s.

    Hollywood has made the mistake in believing COVID was some kind of reset button on cinemas, when in fact COVID taught people watching movies at home was a better experience for anything except IMAX/VFX blockbusters.

    • insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      COVID meant a lot of people may have saved money and gone and bought a decent system for home. And realised just how good it is. It’s so expensive to go to the cinema, there has to be more to it than just the film.