![]() At least Netflix can count Adam Sandler’s basketball drama “Hustle” and the animated adventure “The Sea Beast” as quality entries in their expansive library. Those mediocre titles crashed the overall batting average of this year’s summer movie slate, but you didn’t have to venture out of the house to watch them. Nowadays, more and more non-franchise movies land on streaming services, with Netflix leading the charge this year with several expensive-but-forgettable would-be blockbusters ( “The Gray Man” with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, “Spiderhead” with Chris Hemsworth, etc.). In the 90s and early 2000s especially, there seemed to be a major blockbuster for every weekend from the start of May to mid-August, PLUS at least one or two smaller, counterprogramming-type movies.Īs blockbusters kept getting bigger and more expensive, however, the large studios stopped gambling as much on original ideas and mid-budget, older-audience-skewing content. ![]() ![]() Even before the pandemic, studios had been scaling back the sheer number of summer movies appearing in theaters.
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