10 Reasons The Comic Book Movie Fad Is Here To Stay
3. They Are Sucking-Up Hollywood's Resources
In 2013, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg warned film students at the University of Southern California that Hollywood was on a verge of imploding. Like modern day Dr. Frankensteins, Lucas and Spielberg foretold that the bloated CGI monstrosities they inspired would wreak havoc on the film industry. Spielberg believes the new trend of mammoth budgets for CGI spectacles will lead to inevitable megaflops, forever shifting how Hollywood approaches filmmaking. On the surface, Spielberg's argument seems compelling. He's not wrong that a disproportionate amount of Hollywood resources are devoted to blockbuster filmmaking, especially superhero films. Adjusted for inflation, the 2014 box office was the most tepid since 1992. In the minds of comic book naysayers, this might be a sign of Spielberg's apocalyptic vision coming to fruition. Overall, the grosses for superhero movies held strong. Most of the top grossing movies of 2014 were comic book films, and the biggest comic book franchises, the Avengers and the Justice League, are still coming down the pipeline. 2014s mediocre ticket sales will prove more of a blip on the radar than a downward trend. Hollywood is devoting money to comic book movies because that's what audiences want to see.
