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Marshall Shaffer's avatar

Wonder how much this has to do with the increasing global audience for films and if romance is often so culturally specific that it's harder to travel.

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Matthew Prince's avatar

Romance has NEVER been hard to travel. Indian movies have shown romance and dancing for 80 years. Chinese and Korean movies and dramas have romance, just look how popular K-Drama on Netflix is. HOLLYWOOD is making this decision based on the new liberal executives and producers who have a social agenda to push. The major studio used to make plenty of romantic comedies & dramas in the 90s and 00s as they knew there was a clear market of 15-50 year old girls and women happy to see them: schoolgirls, young women, mums and aunties. There were lots of attractive young men and women from TV ready to step up and star in the movies.

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