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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9079516" data-attributes="member: 22779">The point being, you had a bunch of very cheap to produce movies made in New Zealand which gave theater companies all sorts of tax breaks and whatnot to attract business. Pandemic time, country is locked tight, no movies get made there, all those production companies had to go elsewhere or film in the States which is MUCH more expensive, thus jacking up the price to make the movies.  On the flip side, theater was absolutely killed during the pandemic, and still hasn't recovered.  Comparing box office takes pre and post pandemic without considering the impact of the pandemic is just wildly innaccurate.  It also ignores the rise of streaming in the past four or five years, where streaming has gone from something that maybe people had one or two services in their house to today where it's ubiquitous to the point where people stream on their phones.  How much money was Paramount + making in 2019?  Or Disney+ for that matter?  2019 you had what, Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hulu?  Did I miss anyone?  Now, you've got dozens of big name company streams.  You keep harping on about box office this and that and how the movie is a flop because it didn't smash box office records while at the same time utterly rejecting the fact that the movie industry in 2023 looks virtually nothing like it did five years ago.</blockquote>