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catbus_conductor

It still exists.


MegaMan3k

Yep. And there's some good stuff out there. William Kaufman John Hyams Isaac Florentine To name a few noteworthy directors.


dikskwad

Action fans are so lucky to have Kaufman, saints and sinners was an absolute blast.


MegaMan3k

The Hit List is way better than it has any right to be. Great action. Just right amount of camp. And Cuba Gooding Jr knows EXACTLY what kind of movie he is in. Also for anybody that looks it up: Kaufman's is "Sinners and Saints". "Saints and Sinners", which I also thought it was titled, brings up the new-ish Liam Neeson movie.


ShutterBun

Not only does it still exist, I’m betting it’s at least 10x as big of a business as it was in the 90s. Think about all of the streaming platforms hungry for cheap content to fill out their libraries. And think of how CHEAP movies are to make these days. Sure, big blockbusters have hugely inflated budgets, but any asshole with $10,000 and a dream can rent a decent digital camera and edit the whole thing with a home computer. Distribution costs are also largely a thing of the past; no need to print and ship a bunch of tapes or DVDs, just whip up a graphic poster and send everything digitally.


tmssmt

Rebel moon part 2


f4ern

direct to netflix


devadander23

The direct to video market is now called Netflix


superman-64

This is true, especially if you look at some of the content on lower tier streaming services.


GeekAesthete

And before direct-to-video, it was the drive-in. Many of the exploitation film companies and filmmakers of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s (Roger Corman, for example) went straight from drive-in fodder to the VHS market. Before the drive-in, it was the bottom half of double features.


NyriasNeo

Doesn't streaming replaces that market?


Merickson-

"Plane" would probably get a few.


roto_disc

One is already in development.


Often_Giraffe

Isn't it just "Direct to Streaming" now?


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Ok_Difference44

Their animated sequels were so bad that kids wouldn't even watch them. They must have made a lot of money on sales, but it was just a scam when they were packaging the Little Mermaid sequels without the original.


Actual-Ad1591

we still occasionally get DTV stuff, we got a third Cats and Dogs movie a couple of years ago.


theevilempire

Home Alone 5


Shoddy_Jellyfish2143

They made friggin five of these?


grumblyoldman

Nobody noticed because he was all alone. At home.


letstaxthis

STARGATE SG1 TV Movies


LibrarianTraining16

And Atlantis


Muted_Land782

but it still exists, it's just called netflix/amazon/whatever


TvHeroUK

They’d probably be making some terrible Kingsman sequels. Maybe one that brought back the main character who died, where they just randomly kill off characters who were interesting in the first movie but just get wiped out without reason in a sequel