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Not everything can replicate the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the rapidly growing Star Wars franchise. The DCEU, AKA the DC Extended Universe, floundered upon launch and even now has an unclear future, with the highly anticipated澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Zack Snyder's Justice League apparently澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: leading nowhere. Then there's the cautionary tale of Universal's Dark Universe, which had to be reworked after 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Mummy fell flat.

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These types of films could go to streaming, but with so many platforms available, it's unlikely everyone is subscribed to every streamer, which causes a completely different problem. Martin Scorsese touched on this for. "In many places around this country and around the world, franchise films are now your primary choice if you want to see something on the big screen," he wrote. "It's a perilous time in film exhibition, and there are fewer independent theaters than ever. The equation has flipped and streaming has become the primary delivery system. Still, I don't know a single filmmaker who doesn't want to design films for the big screen, to be projected before audiences in theaters." This was long before the pandemic, and Warner Bros.' 2021 release strategy, which will see films like Matrix 4 and Dune澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: debut on HBO 🔯Max and in theaters simultaneously.

It's clear that we're headed towards a franchise-based future that has less space for small, standalone stories. And that's not getting into issues like the fact that there are less than 10 openly LGBTQ+ characters in the Harry Potter, Star Wars and Marvel franchises combined. If only these entertainment juggernauts ar▨e given widespread theatrical releases, a multiplicity of voices and storie✃s will be harder to come by.

Still, there's a silver lining. Streamers are willing to take chances on non-franchise films, relying more and more on big-name directors with bright ideas.澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Marriage Story's Noah Baumbach has signed an exclusivity deal with Netflix, which recently launched mid-budget movies澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Malcolm & Marie, The Dig, and Pieces of a Woman – all within a month. HBO Max has balanced out its superhero releases with the likes of The Little Things, while Apple TV Plus are financing Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon. These types of films will find their way to audie𓆏nces – but perhaps not on the big screen, which is a massive loss for theaters and theater-goers.

Franchises are not a bad thing: look at all the joy澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Baby Yoda brought us in 2020 while the real world was so scary, or the uptick of interest in澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: classic sitcoms after 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:WandaVision hit Disney Plus. As long as streamers can allow different films to reach♉ audiences, albeit potentially smaller ones, there's no need to panic – and the solution to franchise fatigue and oversaturation, it seems, is fairly simple: less is more.

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