![]() ![]() ![]() (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Speaking of which.Ĭarl Weathers and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of "Predator". Representational improvements aside, nobody wanted to see another Terminator movie. That is why going the Force Awakens route (young, diverse newbies alongside franchise vets as elder mentors) didn’t work for Terminator: Dark Fate. If the Internet represented the real world, Birds of Prey would have cleared $1 billion instead of Joker. And Predator isn’t that kind of franchise.Īs a longtime box office pundit, I’ve been banging my head on the desk about this since nobody showed up to Drew Barrymore’s terrific Whip It in the fall of 2009. We tend only to show up when representational milestones occur in franchise films (Marvel movies, Star Wars sequels, Fast and Furious films, etc.) we already wanted to see. Diversity is a ‘yes, and’ variable, but (like solid box office in China) it can’t turn a flop into a hit. The representative milestones were an added value element for an already appealing old-school, big-budget Hollywood romantic comedy package. ![]() That’s not to say that, for example, Warner Bros.’ Crazy Rich Asians succeeded *despite* diversity. ![]()
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