Destination Wedding | Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder | Could They Bring Back The Romcom? | August 24

[Spectre]

Wonder what kind of expansion they'll give this...

[thedast]

Didn't love the trailer for this for some reason, but I do love Keanu and I miss good romcoms so I'm willing to give it a shot. 

[StevenG]

Remember how IT's gigantic success was reminiscent of the horror phenomenons of years past (The Sixth Sense, The Exorcist, Jaws)? I wonder if we will ever get a romantic comedy today whose box office in adjusted dollasr rivals the mega success that stuff like Pretty Woman, Ghost, and Fat Greek Wedding had. I guess box office is just one aspect, because, for example, will we ever get the type of romantic film that utterly captures the hearts of the country and becomes as iconic as Dirty Dancing? That film only adjusts to 147 million, but I cannot think of many romances that have endured as much as DD.

I look forward to a modern romcom that becomes the IT of romcoms...

Edited June 27, 2018 by StevenG

[Spidey Freak]

Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves might actually be married https://t.co/NsW01h1pFw

— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) 19 August 2018

Edited August 20, 2018 by Spidey Freak

[Eric Duncan]

It seems Constance Wu and Henry Golding brought back the romcom instead.

[bluefishbaker]

They didn't stop making RomComs, they really slowed down on making films under $70m. With a P&A of at least $25-30 million on a wide release, they are not going to blow that kind of money pushing a film of only that value or less, when the bigger franchises cost more but are a surer bet. And RomComs are traditionally made around $15-25M.. 

[Jay Beezy]

6 hours ago, bluefishbaker said:

They didn't stop making RomComs, they really slowed down on making films under $70m. With a P&A of at least $25-30 million on a wide release, they are not going to blow that kind of money pushing a film of only that value or less, when the bigger franchises cost more but are a surer bet. And RomComs are traditionally made around $15-25M.. 

A good chunk of romcoms seem to be going to Netflix as well.

[Jay Beezy]

I know this movie won't make a big impact, but I hope it ends the summer on a "light" note instead of a dour one.

[Barnack]

11 hours ago, bluefishbaker said:

They didn't stop making RomComs, they really slowed down on making films under $70m. With a P&A of at least $25-30 million on a wide release, they are not going to blow that kind of money pushing a film of only that value or less, when the bigger franchises cost more but are a surer bet. And RomComs are traditionally made around $15-25M.. 

Traditionnaly Rom com were often above 50m and involved 1 or 2 rom-com stars paid 8 figures in them with some of bigger one going around 120m and many in the 70-90m windows, say all the Sandlers one.

 

Their P&A were in the 40-60m domestic, sometime in the 65m domestic/55m intl for a 120m world release for a Will Smith one like Hitch or 85m P&A for a Just go with it.

 

They did stop making romcoms more than movie below 70m in general too, horror output augmented and they are traditionally smaller budget than romcoms:

In 1998, romantic-comedies made up 7.4% of films released but now account for just 0.1%, according to The-Numbers.com, while horrors have increased from 4.7% to 6.2%. Ten years ago, 11.2% of film releases were dramas and this year they already account for 16.9%. So maybe there’s more to it than just blockbusters taking over and the lack of romantic-comedy stars taking on roles.

 

https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/06/where-have-all-the-rom-coms-gone-the-genre-has-seen-a-significant-decline-in-the-last-two-decades-but-why-7521357/?ito=cbshare

 

I think some difference versus horror:

 

1) Not many sequels success story to them, you have some big greek weddings 2, etc... once the will they don't they is resolved it tend to be the end of it, CRA never playing that note at all make it easier for a sequel.

 

2) Some say progressiveness making stalking, insisting after a no and many stereotype that were building block of the genre harder, they often need to be "Apatowed" to work or being sales on something that was yet to be a trope a la Love Simon / CRA, etc...

 

3) The genre was particularly star driven, the newer star are harder to establish and those who did became star are hesitant to jump into the RomCom a little bit versus before, now that they could make big money in the action genre like men.

[AJG]

On 5/17/2018 at 1:10 AM, AJG said:

This looks like one of those films that will be screened in as little cinemas as possible and find itself online in full HD on release day.

 

This movie was either scheduled for a VOD release today because it just randomly leaked online. 

 

I was wrong by literally one week.

[TombRaider]

45% on RT and no theatre release, so much for a romcom comeback

[CoolioD1]

8 hours ago, AJG said:

 

This movie was either scheduled for a VOD release today because it just randomly leaked online. 

 

I was wrong by literally one week.

yeah it was always gonna have a VOD release this week.

 

can't wait to watch it.

[CoolioD1]

this was... ok.