American actor, Channing Tatum believes streaming has made him a little fearful due to the changes in storytelling it has brought into the industry.
“The movie industry is just changing so much,” Tatum said. “It’s a different era now and it’s just getting crazier with the streamers. I do fear a little for the storytelling of it all. I think there will be less good storytelling and a lot more product out there.”
Tatum pointed out that the streaming boom has resulted in such a crazy increase in product that even theatrical releases are impacted.
He referenced his 2015 sequel “Magic Mike XXL,” which he says was forced to have a marketing budget that greatly outweighed the production budget.
“We made ‘Magic Mike 2‘ for $ 12 million and they spent $60-$70 million to sell it, so, we’re spending exponentially more money to sell a movie than actually make the thing for you. That should be the other way around. We could be spending the money on the thing that the viewer is actually going to get to see and now it’s just who can create the most noise to break through the cataclysmic wave of content coming out every single day.” Tatum told Forbes.