• The Real Reason SNL Stopped Making Movies

    From tmc1982@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 16 20:20:41 2022
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    https://youtu.be/tojbKBnU5X4

    Saturday Night Live has been a cultural staple for over 40 years. Building memorable characters that audiences would want to see week after week. The characters on SNL became so popular that Lorne Michaels finally started creating feature films around them. Movies like Wayne's World, The Blues Brothers, and Coneheads proved that SNL Characters could translate from small to big screen. But over the coming years the popularity started to fade, and eventually lead to the death of seeing our favorite Saturday Night Live characters on the big screen.

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  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to tmc1982@gmail.com on Fri May 20 03:33:04 2022
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    In message <nd332dc2-162b-42b7-828a-93439687ca27n@googlegroups.com> tmc1982@gmail.com <tmc1982@gmail.com> wrote:
    https://youtu.be/tojbKBnU5X4

    Saturday Night Live has been a cultural staple for over 40 years. Building memorable characters that audiences would want to see week after week. The characters on SNL became so popular that Lorne Michaels finally started creating feature films around them. Movies like Wayne's World, The Blues Brothers, and Coneheads proved that SNL Characters could translate from small to big screen. But over the coming years the popularity started to fade, and eventually lead to the death of seeing our favorite Saturday Night Live characters on the big screen.

    Very silly. There was a less than 10 year period (1993-2000), fueled by
    the huge success of Wayne's World, were there were quite a few SNL
    movies. That's it. Before Wayne's Worlds, the Blues Brothers was mostly
    a /cult/ hit that just barely managed to break the top 10 for 1980,
    beating out Ordinary People and Popeye, more than a decade before.

    Coneheads was a flop, bringing in only about $20 million in 1993, within
    a few dollars of Super Mario Brothers and Another Stakeout compared to
    Jurassic Park;s $350M and Mrs Doubtfire's $225M for fist and second
    place).


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  • From Alan Smithee@21:1/5 to Lewis on Fri May 20 09:46:13 2022
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    On 05/20/2022 12:33 AM, Lewis wrote:
    In message <nd332dc2-162b-42b7-828a-93439687ca27n@googlegroups.com> tmc1982@gmail.com
    <tmc1982@gmail.com> wrote:
    https://youtu.be/tojbKBnU5X4

    Saturday Night Live has been a cultural staple for over 40 years. Building >> memorable characters that audiences would want to see week after week. The >> characters on SNL became so popular that Lorne Michaels finally started
    creating feature films around them. Movies like Wayne's World, The Blues
    Brothers, and Coneheads proved that SNL Characters could translate from small
    to big screen. But over the coming years the popularity started to fade, and >> eventually lead to the death of seeing our favorite Saturday Night Live
    characters on the big screen.

    Very silly. There was a less than 10 year period (1993-2000), fueled by
    the huge success of Wayne's World, were there were quite a few SNL
    movies. That's it. Before Wayne's Worlds, the Blues Brothers was mostly
    a /cult/ hit that just barely managed to break the top 10 for 1980,
    beating out Ordinary People and Popeye, more than a decade before.

    Coneheads was a flop, bringing in only about $20 million in 1993, within
    a few dollars of Super Mario Brothers and Another Stakeout compared to Jurassic Park;s $350M and Mrs Doubtfire's $225M for fist and second
    place).

    they stopped because many skits do not translate into good movies -
    "it's pat" is a prime example.

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  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to Alan Smithee on Sun May 22 03:38:12 2022
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    In message <n682im$ivb$1@gioia.aioe.org> Alan Smithee <alms@last.inc> wrote:
    On 05/20/2022 12:33 AM, Lewis wrote:
    In message <nd332dc2-162b-42b7-828a-93439687ca27n@googlegroups.com> tmc1982@gmail.com
    <tmc1982@gmail.com> wrote:
    https://youtu.be/tojbKBnU5X4

    Saturday Night Live has been a cultural staple for over 40 years. Building >>> memorable characters that audiences would want to see week after week. The >>> characters on SNL became so popular that Lorne Michaels finally started
    creating feature films around them. Movies like Wayne's World, The Blues >>> Brothers, and Coneheads proved that SNL Characters could translate from small
    to big screen. But over the coming years the popularity started to fade, and
    eventually lead to the death of seeing our favorite Saturday Night Live
    characters on the big screen.

    Very silly. There was a less than 10 year period (1993-2000), fueled by
    the huge success of Wayne's World, were there were quite a few SNL
    movies. That's it. Before Wayne's Worlds, the Blues Brothers was mostly
    a /cult/ hit that just barely managed to break the top 10 for 1980,
    beating out Ordinary People and Popeye, more than a decade before.

    Coneheads was a flop, bringing in only about $20 million in 1993, within
    a few dollars of Super Mario Brothers and Another Stakeout compared to
    Jurassic Park;s $350M and Mrs Doubtfire's $225M for fist and second
    place).

    they stopped because many skits do not translate into good movies -
    "it's pat" is a prime example.

    How many years has SNL been on the air?

    How many of those years was there an SNL movie?

    They didn't "stop", they never started. As I said, there was a brief
    period from 1993-2000 where they made several movies, some were very successful, the rest were not.

    There will probably be more SNL movies at some point (there was one
    about 10 years ago), or maybe not. The movie industry is changing quite
    a lot, and we have not even begun to see the fallout from 2020 yet.

    But the entire premise of the original post is garbage.



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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to alms@last.inc on Mon May 23 13:02:07 2022
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    In article <t682im$ivb$1@gioia.aioe.org>, alms@last.inc wrote:
    On 05/20/2022 12:33 AM, Lewis wrote:
    tmc1982@gmail.com <tmc1982@gmail.com> wrote:

    https://youtu.be/tojbKBnU5X4

    Saturday Night Live has been a cultural staple for over 40 years. Building >>> memorable characters that audiences would want to see week after week. The >>> characters on SNL became so popular that Lorne Michaels finally started
    creating feature films around them. Movies like Wayne's World, The Blues >>> Brothers, and Coneheads proved that SNL Characters could translate from
    small to big screen. But over the coming years the popularity started to >>> fade, and eventually lead to the death of seeing our favorite Saturday
    Night Live characters on the big screen.

    Very silly. There was a less than 10 year period (1993-2000), fueled by
    the huge success of Wayne's World, were there were quite a few SNL
    movies. That's it. Before Wayne's Worlds, the Blues Brothers was mostly
    a /cult/ hit that just barely managed to break the top 10 for 1980,
    beating out Ordinary People and Popeye, more than a decade before.

    Coneheads was a flop, bringing in only about $20 million in 1993, within
    a few dollars of Super Mario Brothers and Another Stakeout compared to
    Jurassic Park;s $350M and Mrs Doubtfire's $225M for fist and second
    place).

    they stopped because many skits do not translate into good movies -
    "it's pat" is a prime example.

    Many of which were a 20-second joke.

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