By Joshua Tyler | Published
It is the summer that the films of confirmed superhero are finished. They will always be here and there, but they are no longer a billion dollars’ money factories, and it is the best thing that can happen to films.
Superhero movies have dominated Hollywood for decades. The studio system has devoted each dollar to make them, with the biggest budgets possible, the biggest stars and all the money available for marketing.
They did it because they made money, almost all. This is why we have films like Venom,, Shazam,, HancockAnd Suicide team. They were not large properties for which people claimed, but they were superhero films, so people went to see them. Because, like cowboy movies before them, people have gone to see all the superhero films. They cost a lot of money to earn, and they made money in return. It was a lossless formula.
The money is not infinite, however, to do this, Hollywood had reduced her investment objective. This meant that someone launching a new idea for a film in the event of a disaster that required a big budget, was probably not going to get money to make their vision. If you had an incredible idea of starting a new action franchise, you probably did not compete either for that. Everything was going to superheroes.
Thus, the hunger of the superhero film public was satisfied, Hollywood made a lot of money, but other ideas were put aside. These are all the superheroes all the time because they were considered as secure machines. It is questionable that it is never true, but it was perception. Now this is not the case.
The interest of superheroes culminated with Avengers: end of game, And it has been slipping since. This year, the slide has become more obvious. Four great superhero films were released this year, and only Superman has not underperforming. Yet even Superman will only end as a modest blow, and while Fantastic Four Will earn money, this will not do anything like historical marvel numbers.
The results of last year seemed to be deceptively better due to the mega-money won by Deadpool and WolverineBut if you remove the crazy box-office of $ 1.3 billion from this film from the equation, it was largely a disaster of superheroes.
2024 Superhero Box-Officie
- Venom: the last dance | $ 478 million
- Madame Web | $ 100 million
- The hunter’s requirement | $ 62 million
These failures last year were easily rejected because They were all Three objectively terrible films. This summer is particularly remarkable because Superman And Fantastic Four: First stepsUnlike most superhero films released in 2024, there are two good films. However, good Critics and good word of mouth have was only enough to win them $ 500 to $ 700 million on budgets of more than $ 400 million.
Superhero movies are no longer money printing machines. They are again like any other type of film. This means that Hollywood will likely be to try other types of films.
Variety made the 1990s one of the best decades of successful cinema. With superheroes removed as obstacles, we could be in another successful rebirth. Like Cowboy films before them, superhero films are made as an instant successful formula. Hollywood lost his crutch and the films are about to become great again.
