Martin Scorsese’s Warning
This has not been a good month for Hollywood blockbusters. For the first time since 2000, when the average price of a theater ticket was almost half of what it is now, the top 10 films for November’s first two weekends have failed to add up to $100 million in total grosses. That box-office number is a standard metric for gauging broader cinema-going enthusiasm, and it’s a metric the industry is falling short of. Audiences are rejecting studio offerings such as Terminator: Dark Fate, Doctor Sleep, and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, all of which have underperformed relative to expectations.
What else do those movies, in which he said of Marvel movies, “.” Unsurprisingly, given the popularity of the Marvel behemoth, Scorsese has been for that opinion. But as he clarified in a wide-ranging , his comments were rooted in real concerns about Hollywood’s future.
