>>5713800You know I feel like Hollywood is stuck in a creative rut nowadays, if they have to make a Barbie film... combined with the implosion and slow recovery after the streaming hype, the economics of subscribers are just unattractive, the overbidding on content etc in addition to the writers / actors talent strike labour relations etc.
I was reading about how in the 1960s-70s Hollywood had similar problems reaching youth demographics, it provided an opportunity for the emergence of "New Hollywood" productions that harnessed a lot of international and original artistic creative approaches (often with more sex more violence etc) in fact Kubrick first emerged in this era and gained prominence
>>5710141 The New Hollywood era lasted until Star Wars 1977 but it left a lasting cinematic legacy. Of course nowadays Hollywood has to contend with the internet, the sex and violence is already here, the directors who make the "atypical non-Hollywood looking films" eg Wes Anderson etc urgh urgh are themselves quite mainstream. Besides, there are decades of great cinematic films to watch, no need to chase disappointing new releases. Not sure how Hollywood are going to rejuvenate themselves this time