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Hollywood Must Cut Blockbuster Budgets Below $200M

Glad to hear #DCStudios kept #SUPERGIRL’s budget in check. With the CBM heydays past us, It’s more important than ever that you give your CBMs all conditions to succeed at Global #BoxOffice: Optics are as important as delivering a good movie. Unless you got a strong reason to believe your film will be a locked 600M+ grosser at the very least under any circumstances, if you are a legacy studio which still relies at Global #BoxOffice grosses as your main source of revenue for your movies, you should never allow its budget to balloon towards that 200M mark, let alone past it. As I’ve been saying since 2021, In a world where the 400M+ mark became the new 700M and 700M+ became the new 1B for most blockbusters, there is absolutely no reason to keep expending over 200M for every single blockbuster. It’s past time for Hollywood to seriously tackle this issue and adequate their budgets not only to this new Post-Covid reality, but also to their films’ honestly evaluated potential. Obviously, exceptions exist and taking risks for projects you truly believe in are also necessary time to time, but the problem is that what was supposed to be a exception became the rule for almost all blockbusters under the yellow sun. That’s not sustainable and isn’t good for anyone.