![]() ![]() ![]() Outside of the issue that so much of the market is dominated by endless franchises and reboots, the number of movies studios turn out a year shrinks drastically every year, and therefore the selection of films. In my eyes, there’s perfectly reasonable explanation for this: not enough slightly misbegotten, one-off films are being made. There are only a few stray unusual apples - maybe an Olympus Has Fallen, or a Red, or some other modest box-office action hit that you didn’t know was a hit soaking up some rerun sunshine for a time. X-Men, Lord of the Rings films and the new Batman series are everywhere. Films take less of an investment for cable channels, and present more surefire returns than reruns of shows - in an age where networks have been caught speeding up Friends reruns to fit in more commercials - so you actually have big-screen fare going around than ever before on cable, despite the increasingly ludicrous original programming boom on TV and streaming services over the last few years.īut though there is more cinema on cable, it is the same established movies, over and over, and mostly, big franchise films are the gold standard. ![]() And insofar as breakthrough hits replay, they are sure bets. Nowadays, looking at the listing of a site like TNT shows that big franchise movies have taken over cable as they have the industry. ![]()
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