Steven Spielberg: Superhero Movies Will Soon Lose Out
People are going to have no more inclination to watch superhero film, just as they have lost interest in other genres, said Steven Spielberg, according to designtrend.
Discussing his idea on Wednesday (via Cinema Blend) , he said: "Of course, right now the superhero movie is alive and thriving. I'm only saying that these cycles have a finite time in popular culture," Spielberg explained. "There will come a day when the mythological stories are supplanted by some other genre that possibly some young filmmaker is just thinking about discovering for all of us."
Ultimately, superhero movies will no longer draw attention. Even as theatres have regularly been ringing with "major superhero movies" almost every summer since 2000, it is clear that fans are no longer interested.
It was only in 2002 that live-action Superhero movies began to ring the theatres. It was when Sony Pictures released "Spider-Man," starring Tobey Maguire, which grossed over $821 million worldwide.
Although such films would plummet in popularity, it does not seem likely that it would happen soon. Even as Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Age of Ultron" collected $983 million worldwide, the movie "Captain America: Civil War" probably won't touch that figure.
However, every year, Marvel Studios seem to have been producing 12 and releasing them regularly in the last eight years. According to IMDB they have grossed over $7 billion at box offices worldwide.
