Hollywood has gone in Cycles and what helps everyones cause is a good batch of Directors. With Nolan, Villenueve, Fincher, Rian Johnson just to name a few, these guys can handle their Budgets. While Nolan obviously is getting whatever he wants, most of these guys are great for Lower to Mid Budget films. 'Arrival' is a Great Example... It has a $50mil Budget, isn't a remake and is getting Critical Acclaim already. It's just a SF film BUT it's not apart of that oversaturation you mentioned. Villenueve has shown he has no problem making films with VERY Mature Subject Matter. He's done low budget and mid budget, successful in everything but 'Enemy' which was dirt cheap and is already getting Cult Status. I personally hate Comic Book Films. Nolan and Raimi are the only 2 that I enjoyed their work in the Genre... But even if I were an intetested fan, how the hell would I know what to watch with the CONSTANT bombardment of these films. It's just far too much.
What always gets me is how a film like 'Black Swan', which you mentioned, has a great director in Aronofsky having to literally fight for EVERY SINGLE PENNY!! It's $13mil lol and Studio's are handing out $150 like it's nothing. Sure enough, the ARTIST wins. His film grosses $300+mil... As he said, filmmaking is 99% Bureaucracy... That is a fact. While a small number of Directors have freedom (Scorsese, Spielberg, Nolan, Fincher), the amount that deal with the Studio destroying their film are 100-1. It's a shame... But, it seems like we're seeing a resurgence in Quality again. Fans are sick of crap. Plenty of Low Budget films have been incredibly successful. Blumhouse is the Polar Opposite of the Studio System. Films budgeted from $1mil to maybe $3-5mil are doing $50-100mil, then HUGE DVD, BluRay and VOD grosses as well. I know it used to be that Big Budget Profits helped the Smaller Films get made but now these Independent Studios are finding their Markets and THRIVE.
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gogoschka-1
8 years ago
Hey mate, thanks for answering. I agree, the independent films are coming back: but they still have a very hard time getting a wide release, because they can't compete with the marketing budgets of the tentpoles. BTW, Scorsese has to fight for every penny too, and even Spielberg has a very hard time getting projects off the ground if they are not commercial ('Lincoln' almost ended up as an HBO movie, because Spielberg couldn't get the financing for the film). Blumhouse are very smart, and they are actually the role model for what I'm suggesting in that blog. Make a good film with artistic integrity on a budget and then market the hell out of it. It works. Audiences don't really care how much your film cost: but they need to now that it exists, and that is expensive.
Villeneuve is a genius: he is the only consistently working director who keeps churning out quality film after quality film aiming at adults - usually with budgets between 20-50 million. I don't know how he does it.
http://www.the-fanboy-perspective.com/a-rant-against-modern-tentpole-film-making.html
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