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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nevin" data-source="post: 9055294" data-attributes="member: 7024481">Unfortunately unless you are talking about netflix, amazon, or Hulu all the other studios that make money don't care about the long term.  They only care that the movie makes an initial big bloom of money.    There are many reasons for this but the two big ones are the stock market and the fact that all that digital money gets split among a lot of people in rev sharing agreements, acter/staff payouts on every view etc.    I don't disagree that many flops are in the long run very profitable but Hollywood is one of the shortest term thinkers in all of business.  As I said earlier 2023 was a terri-bad year for hollywood movies and 2022 was worse.  on top of that the Writers strike is happening at peak leverage time and will cut thier revenue even more as they fight for more of the digital revenue that isn't always included in the viewing dollars that standard movies are.    Sometimes when everything sucks movies that didn't do so well get a second chance.  There's a lot of suckage this year and last and Honor among thieves may just be so small no one but Hasbro pays attention to all the details that will decide what happens long term.</blockquote>