Gone are the days when boy met girl, messed things up, and 90 minutes later found himself running across some city to win her back. A new investigation reported by Yahoo! Finance has confirmed as much, stating that studios are currently commissioning fewer romcoms. Even genre queen Julia Roberts recently declared during an interview that over the last 20 years, good romcom scripts simply “didn’t exist”.
Why are new entries proving less bankable than romcoms past, like Four Weddings And A Funeral, which was once the second highestgrossing film of all time in the UK?