Actor Channing Tatum is back in theaters with his true-crime comedy “Roofman,” coming out this week, and is reflecting on his decades of experience in Hollywood by suggesting that folks are sadly “incentivized” to take on streaming films or offers they know are “bad” just to make money.
Tatum, last month, while speaking with Variety, vented a little concerning the industry disruption from streaming services and the potential negative impact on theatrical, along with quality control as a whole, “The streamers came in and effed up the industry a bit, for good and for bad. The studios are confused; the streamers are confused.”
During a recent appearance on the YouTube chat show Hot Ones (via GamesRadar), the actor was asked to expand on his thoughts on streaming and share his feelings/frustrations on the negative aspects of the current state of things.
“I think now, when you get asked to do a movie, or you’re trying to get a movie made, it’s a very confused pipeline of possibilities,” Channing Tatum said recently on Hot Ones. “And it really feels like, at times, that you’re incentivized to make bad things to get paid, rather than make something really, really good, for the f***ing people that actually get to see these things and the people that I want to see these movies, the person that I was when I was a kid, and I want good movies. I’m like, ‘Man, I want to give my money to the good movies.’ It’s such an upside-down moment.”
“But I do believe that the disruption is going to lead to something good,” Tatum admits. “I do believe that. I do believe that the streamers came in for a reason, and it had to change, it had to morph.”
We have to imagine Channing Tatum is talking about deep-pocketed streamers (Netflix being the easiest example) as he stopped short of naming specifics, throwing around mega-offers to secure talent on massive movies (a huge chunk of production budgets are going to upfront deals as streamers gloat about how much they spend) that simply don’t cut the mustard when it comes to quality entertainment. It can certainly feel, at times, like a streamer securing marketable talent is more of a priority than trying to make a memorable film that stays with an audience.
As mentioned at the top, Tatum’s latest “Roofman” releases this week from director Derek Cianfrance (“Blue Valentine,” “The Place Beyond The Pines”) and sees him paired up with Kirsten Dunst as the film’s leading lady. That full chat between Tatum and Hot Ones can also be viewed below.
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