>>212547993covid was just a catalyst, you can see the numbers were on the rocks from 2004-2020 and despite climbing they weren't climbing at the same ratio they were from 1982-2000, now that the bubble has burst we're looking at the endless bureaucracy on set continuing to grow with things like intimacy coordinators being required for a kiss scene and ofc that coordinator probably makes 6 figures in hollywood, this shit all adds up, combined with the fact that people in general have basically grown tired of the last 15+ years of re-hash and remake and rerelease shit, the last decade of literally who nepo-baby actors being thrust into acting positions where they play the same bored zoomer who can't act
honestly it's just time for the big box office blockbuster hit idea to crash and burn, hollywood needs to gut the bureaucracy and get back to what made shit good. Easy Rider had a budget of 300-400k and made 70m.