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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9059433" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Oh most definitely, which also astonishes me as someone who only saw the very forgettable first movie, but my understanding is that the franchise has reinvented itself several times by now. The reasons the number of Police Academy movies is extraordinary to me is because a) each one made less money than the one before, whereas long running franchises tend to be the ones that can capitalize on the success of the first to get even more people to the second, but somehow instead they just got by on diminishing returns, and b) they seem to have negligible ongoing cultural relevance.I mean that's absolutely true, but the "go to the theater and pick a movie" crowd has been anemic for like a decade now. Maybe it's entirely gone this year, but I would guess that the many people on theater ticket subscription services still go on a regular basis (whether money is being made of those people is a different matter).In any case, Hollywood has increasingly re-geared to focus more and more on the sort of "big event movies" that get occasional movie-goers to the theaters for at least 7 or 8 years now. What I'm proposing is that in 2023 this model also seems to be mostly broken, perhaps because there are just too many would-be "event" movies competing with each other, but also because many of the occasional movie-goers have just become non-movie-goers.</blockquote>