What Happened to Hollywood’s Middle Class?
Hollywood’s middle class of movies, the $25-80 million dramas, thrillers, and teen classics a generation grew up on, once ruled theaters. Here’s what actually killed it, and it wasn’t just streaming.
Hollywood’s middle class of movies, the $25-80 million dramas, thrillers, and teen classics a generation grew up on, once ruled theaters. Here’s what actually killed it, and it wasn’t just streaming.
Every generation is sure its technology is the one that finally kills Hollywood. Television, streaming, now AI. History says otherwise, and the pattern of what actually happens when entertainment disrupts itself is more interesting than the funeral headlines suggest.