3) Push Entertaining And High-Quality Low Budget Movies
There’s not just a problem with the type of movies Hollywood makes today. Another issue is distribution, and the lack thereof of high quality films with box office potential that just happen to be low budget.
A wide audience probably would have taken to the Carpenter-esque horror Green Room or batshit thriller The Invitation for example, if only they had known they were there/if they had access to one of the few cinemas that bothered to screen them back in April. They got some of the best reviews of the year, and made just $4 million between them – buried by unenthusiastic studios.
Foreign movies count here, too. Potentially crowd-pleasing thrillers like Disorder and A War sank stateside this year, just as foreign movies always do, because of Hollywood’s apparent lack of interest in promoting them.
The rise of foreign-language television, such as Nordic noir, has at least proven that audiences are prepared to jump the language barrier and read some text as long as there’s a good story involved – so why not push foreign cinema more, too?
Published: Jul 29, 2016 01:51 pm