By action flicks i primarily mean the likes of Taken, The Last Stand so on... The ones that don't have massive ambitions or scale.
Is the time when an action film can go into theaters have a ton of fans and gain large pop culture recognition over?
I think action fans will still exist but i don't see an action flick making as much money as they did in the nineties unless it has superheroes or some historical epic level of action with thousands of people going at each other.
Is Direct to VOD/DVD the future of the franchise? Do you see the VOD/DVD market churning out more polished and bigger budget movies in the long term.
Interesting article on the subject: