Hollywood is certainly in a tough spot, some of their own making, some not. I’m not going to go into all of them, we all know them well known by now, whether people want to believe them or disagree, that up to them but the reasons why Hollywood is having issues are there.
The point I will focus on is the fans or maybe the movie going/TV public in general. There have been movies or TV shows over the last ten years where the marketing was to deliberately antagonize the fans. Now sure, there are vocal trolls the studios were responding too, but is that the majority?
Reasonable people see the messaging of “this movie isn’t for you” shrug, take it at face value and move on. I know I did. Did the same things with comic books, a fairly famous writer said “if you don’t like my (reason) don’t by my book.”
And people did just that.
For a lot of folks there are far more choices in media, entertainment what have you than ever before. Add to this a tremendous backlog of media. One could be entertained easily without seeing any current wares.
It should come as no surprise when you tell people something like that and they turn around say “Oh, OK. Good luck” and depart.
I avoid using the word never, but I think it’s unlikely that the folks needed are ever coming back in large enough numbers to reverse the trend. Sure there will be hits along the way but will it be enough to reverse the trend?
I don’t claim to have any insight other than a hunch. The movies need people watching to survive. The reverse is not true. We’ll see what continues to unfold but it doesn’t look good.