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Future Star Wars films to have lower budgets?


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Don't gloat if you are one of the Disney Star Wars haters that are a plague on this board, this isn't a value judgement, it's an economic one. With a global economic downturn shaping up and movie theaters closing due to the pandemic, many never to re-open, the blockbuster-movie business model that made CGI extravaganzas that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make has ended. With fewer movie theaters and fewer people willing to go to movie theaters, studios can no longer expect to spend $300 million on one movie and another hundreds mil on advertising it, and expect to make more than a billion back.

This is particularly true because the US is being extremely hard-hit by the pandemic (don't get me started), studios have always gotten a higher proportion of domestic ticket sales than overseas sales. And with theaters in the US likely to be closed or open at diminished capacity for years to come, well, movies are going to have to have lower budgets, and I expect similar rumors to come out of Marvel Films soon.

Damn, the CGI Extravaganza era was fun while it lasted!

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If that means Hollyweird will have to rely more on good scripts, interesting characters and better actors than I am all for lower budgets.

CGI bores me and especially with the SW prequels I thought they went way over the top with it all.

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the budgets for all movies may be lower.

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