Once Hollywood’s most reliable cash cow, the horror genre has cratered at the box office this year, with audiences rejecting everything from ‘M3GAN 2.0’ to ‘Opus’ – putting undue pressure on the likes of this month’s ambitious chiller ‘Weapons’, writes Adam White. And its success – or lack thereof – will have consequences
  • Kernal64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    25 days ago

    At least around here, some of those movies only had multiple showtimes for about a week. Not everyone can see a movie opening weekend. And some people, like me, tend to skip opening weekends so they can avoid the crowds. If you declare all movies a failure after the first 3 days, then pull all the showtimes that aren’t 10 pm on a weeknight, of course your movie is gonna bomb. The article, while making some good points, seems to skip over this one.