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AlisLandale posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zombie_films

Consistently 20ish films per year well into 2017. 2003 was the first year with more than 10 zombie movies since 1988.

Not to mention the Gunsmoke TV show started in 1955, over a decade before classics like The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Wagon Train was 57. Bonanza was 59.

Nobody isnt going to see a big budget Batman movie because theres a tv version unless the studio royally shits the bed. (Or if they wait until audiences are sick of Batman and just create a self-fulfilling prophecy)

Most of those movies are straight-to-video / straight-to-streaming-service movies. And westerns had mostly died out by the 1960s. The few successes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Dollars Trilogy, say some variation or another of the same thing: "Westerns weren't profitable at the time." The Dollars Trilogy films were low budget. They had everything to gain and nothing to lose. Clint Eastwood was a TV star who went over to Italy to do a low budget western remake of Yojimbo.

Maybe I'm wrong. I don't have a magic crystal ball that can see the outcome of things. If an HBO Max series is successful and a movie release isn't, it might be over-saturation or lingering stigma from Batman v Superman and the Whedon cut of Justice League. But I'm with the producers when I cast my vote on the likelihood that going to the small screen is as much as forfeiting one's place on the big screen.