The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
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Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
I wish, to be honest with you, for African American films that we could get a few more theaters. They only open them in 1500 to 2000 for an opening weekend, and how do you expect us to compete. How can we go to certain box office levels if they don't give us more theaters?
And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.
Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.