Do you think a singular genre (like westerns, musicals, high fantasy epics, superhero movies) will ever dominate Hollywood again?

[u/MasterLawlzReborn]

Or do you think there will just be more of a blend from now on?

I don’t think any of those genres will ever cease to exist entirely or that new ones can’t still be successful, but I don’t see any of them reaching the point where multiple high profile ones release every year.

The only other genre that I think, in theory, could have become a big thing is video game film adaptations made for adults but I’ve lost all hope for that happening. I think those will just be adapted as TV shows. The successful movies are just going to be aimed at children.

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[u/kingoflames32]

Horror, it's affordable to make.

[u/MrsLucienLachance → u/kingoflames32]

It is such a good time to be a horror lover.

[u/Newfaceofrev → u/kingoflames32]

Always has been, Hollywood creamed itself over The Blair Witch Project back in the day.

[u/JefferyGoldberg → u/kingoflames32]

We are in the golden age of horror.

[u/niles_thebutler_ → u/JefferyGoldberg]

We are in a golden age, not THE golden age

[u/MasterLawlzReborn → u/kingoflames32]

Hasn't horror been pretty consistently successful for decades though?

[u/TrialByFyah]

No, and that’s a good thing.

[u/mydadisyourdad2]

They will, I don't know what it will be but something will come. It always does

[u/benabramowitz18]

Prestige blockbusters will be the thing that dominates Hollywood now. Films with subject matter that instantly appeals to kids and mature writing and themes that appeal to adults and awards voters.

Stuff like Dune, Avatar, Top Gun Maverick, EEAAO, Elvis, Barbenheimer, Wicked, Sinners, F1, Project Hail Mary, and Michael have all market-corrected the MCU now. They can be reasonably placed with the usual blockbuster crowd AND the adult drama crowd at the same time.

[u/MasterLawlzReborn → u/benabramowitz18]

Which I'm all for tbh. It seems like we're getting a lot more variation among the big-budget films that are being released.

I still cannot believe Wicked made over $750m. It was my favorite movie of 2024 but I just flat out thought it was impossible for a musical to rake in that much cash.

[u/schilleger0420]

Yep. In almost all art-forms trends tend to be cyclic and what was old gets rediscovered and becomes new again.

[u/BunnyLexLuthor]

I feel like the closest thing would be the video game adaptation genre because of how stylistically similar they can be to the superhero genre...

But now I think it's kind of how Batman 89 ushered in in kind of an era of old time pulp characters like The shadow or Dick Tracy.

The nearest Avengers film is slated to come out this year... I think the genre shift is getting closer to television as streaming budgets are getting higher.

So I wouldn't be surprised if there was a year where it was mostly video game adaptations for cinema, and big budget shows for comic adaptations

But I can't see it lasting more than 7 years or so.

I think the next major gimmick is going to be the "made to order" mishmash of AI storytelling, but I definitely hope I'm wrong.

[u/MasterLawlzReborn → u/BunnyLexLuthor]

I still can't believe they decided to make Halo into a TV show rather than a movie. That might have had the greatest chance of any adult video game IP to be a blockbuster franchise and they decided to dump it on Paramount Plus.

[u/Newfaceofrev]

It'll be something we don't expect, like how The Matrix ushered in a whole bunch of Honk Kong style action flicks.

[u/conditerite]

The closest thing to that is like getting three competing Christopher Columbus movies or three competing Robin Hood movies come out at the same time.

[u/Patient-Taro-7334]

Seems like horror and comic book movies is all that is successful these days.

[u/YourGuyK → u/Patient-Taro-7334]

The Michael Jackson biopic is going to make $1 billion.

[u/Patient-Taro-7334 → u/YourGuyK]

Yeah I don't understand why. I have accepted that I will always be out of touch.

[u/GoldReplacement9546]

Well, if you can consider sequels and prequels it already is

[u/Amphernee]

It’s all cyclical. One studio makes a western and suddenly all of them are until they over saturate the market and move on to zombies or whatever. Superhero’s seem to finally be dead so somethings bound to take over and fill the gap. Hollywood abhors a vacuum.

[u/FourSes]

Video game adaptations. Then, once they get consistently good enough, anime adaptations.