We NEED More Mid-Budget Superhero Films

It’s no secret that the film industry has been hurting recently. And badly. Where in the 2010s, there were 39 films to break one billion dollars at the box office - averaging four or five a year. Well. Since the start of the new decade, we’ve had, uh, six films to reach one billion dollars at the box office since 2020.
While box office revenue isn’t a good measurement of a film’s quality - it does gauge fan interest. Especially when it comes to a film they just can’t wait a few months to see it on their couch. And if you look more closely, you can see an actual quantifiable metric shared among the highest-rated superhero films of the last few years. Relatively speaking, their budgets weren’t that high.
Most people have written Madam Web off and will probably skip this film. And I am by no means going out on a limb to defend the quality of the film before it’s released. But it does have an advantage that most films these days don’t have, and it finds itself in a surprisingly rare category for the superhero genre. A category with arguably some of the greatest superhero films ever made - Blade, X-Men, Deadpool, Logan, and Into the Spider-Verse, just to name a few. They’re all mid-budget films. Let me explain.
00:00 - Intro
01:45 - Indie Films and Blockbusters
04:33 - Mid Budget Films
07:02 - How Superhero Films Broke
11:40 - Mid Budget Superhero Film Success
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[@NealaBeala]

I know it's stupid, but i like to imagine superhero films I want to see. A Batgirl movie where she's still learning the ropes and taking down crooked figures, or a Supergirl or Superboy movie where they're trying to figure out how to be an earth teenager while also wanting to be like Superman. Let the characters have moments between each other. Let characters be friends and get along. You don't need a world ending problem to make heros likeable. Huge stakes like that often do the opposite (enternals *cough cough*)

[@traviscreason1911]

I sooo hope that we start getting less overblown movies and just get back more to good and fun movies… maybe less pressure on the studios to overlord on the productions and let the creators tell the stories they can tell🤞🤞🤞

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[@EricTheMage]

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