Mike Judge’s career would look very, very different were it not for DVD.

oh yeah, the most creative people in hollywood remain the accountants.

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again, but blaming superhero movies for the death of midbudget movies feels like blaming the cockroaches for the nuclear winter. They’re not the core problem with theater releases, they’re just the thing that can survive in the current environment. 

And even though it made $144 million more than the budget, not counting DVD sales, I would bet the studio considers it a financial loss.

adjusted for inflation deuce bigalow male gigolo made 175 million dollars theatrically and probably more than 2x that on dvd/video. adjusted for inflation the budget was only 31 million.

Yeah, Devine seems to miss the real shift going on. It’s not that mid-budget comedies aren’t being made. It’s that they’re being made for a different forum. They’re going straight to streaming.

This is probably my fault, I was really sick the entire time Grown-Ups 2 was in theaters, I’m so sorry everyone, I know it was my job to keep comedy alive by funding whatever dumb commercial-filled hangout session a bunch of shitty SNL alumni was in theaters at any time.

Ioved them too. But if you look back at say 1986 which I think is the year I saw Police Academy 3 for my birthday there isn’t a single animated kids movie in the Box Office Mojo top 20. Thirty years later in 2016 there was 7. That is a lot more theatre space taken up by those movies, and a lot more studio money…

To be fair, I friggen loved the Police Academy movies when I was a kid.  But also my taste in comedy has grown, so if those movies came out today I probably wouldn’t see them.

Spy is about the only one of hers I like because she bounces of off Statham really well.

Yeah as someone mentioned below Barbie is a comedy that is doing gangbusters, but it’s also very much it’s own thing. It’s something other than strictly a comedy a la 40 YO Virgin or The Hangover, or even Bridesmaids.

This. McCarthy is amazing as a supporting player. But my god as a lead, her comedies are dire.

Sure, but outside of Barbie, what other comedies are out there? Let alone make money? Remember when we used to have several romcoms a year? Or the big budget “frat pack (Apatow, Carell, Ferrell, Franco, Vaughn, Rogen, Stiller, etc)” film? Those genres have pretty much died out. Or fail at the box office whenever one…

I am not sure it is fair to lay all the blame at Marvel. Sure Marvel and super hero movies are a big part of the issue, but at the same time so are animated kids movies. I was a kid in the 80's and back then you got lots of classic comedies but maybe 1 or 2 animated kids movies a year that weren’t Disney re-releases.…

Barbie is a corporate-IP based star vehicle. Not at all the type of film he’s talking about.

Pretty much this, that studios consider anything less than a 100%+ ROI is the issue.  That and the creative accounting they do to also claim just about every movie they make is a money loser.

well that’s almost exactly his point isn’t it? the only comedy movies that get released are 150+ million dollar IP franchise movies that happen to be funny.

I think it’s also that movies are just so freaking expensive these days. It’s hard for a lot of people to muster up that kind of money to see something that doesn’t strictly *need* to be seen in a theater. It makes sense to go get all the special effects and loud noises of an action movie in a theater, but you might…

The problem isn’t what plays in the theater. It is the theater.

Again for the people in the back: There’s no money in small profits!!