Where Have All The Big-Budget Romantic Comedies Gone?

To Netflix, of course, which made a decision after watching the data on viewers streaming old romantic comedies since studios were only producing things that would do well with 12-year-old boys (and their parents). “That business decision has led to what Netflix has deemed ‘summer of love,’ a three-month period in which the platform is releasing a slew of exactly what Witherspoon described longing for: ‘romantic movies.’ They’re not all comedies, per se, but they’re the kind of movies that give viewers the feels.”