'Madame Web' Star: Flop Shows Hollywood Model Doesn't Work

Actress Dakota Johnson said she wasn't "surprised" by bad reviews for recent Sony/Marvel flick "Madame Web," which performed poorly at the box office. ...

"It’s so hard to get movies made, and in these big movies that get made — and it’s even starting to happen with the little ones, which is what’s really freaking me out — decisions are being made by committees, and art does not do well when it’s made by committee. Films are made by a filmmaker and a team of artists around them. You cannot make art based on numbers and algorithms. My feeling has been for a long time that audiences are extremely smart, and executives have started to believe that they’re not. Audiences will always be able to sniff out bulls**t."

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The actress even added that if films begin to feature artificial intelligence, "Humans aren’t going to f**king want to see those."

Ed Morrissey

It would be a refreshing change to see any intelligence applied to Hollywood products, especially in the comic-book genre. The tropes are so cliché by now that adding AI to the script process could only improve matters -- and I don't want AI involved at all.

Why not look for original stories? We have a plethora of material in novels, and in real life. Cabrini looks amazing, for instance, and it got made by an indie studio on a smallish budget. 

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