Posted on 11/11/2019 11:06:24 AM PST by EdnaMode
[King has never supported Kubricks film]
Hey I hate to break it to everyone including FREEPERS but Terminator Dark Fate made it to #1 and has almost 200 million in worldwide sales.
Also, I thought it was pretty darn good. The best Terminator since the first one.
His talent has been grossly overestimated.
Not nearly as bad as Miss Sloane.
13 million production, and it didnt even make ten.
***Stephen Kings The Shining sequel***
The Stanley Kubrick version or the horrid 1997 three part made-for-TV version.
Pay services streaming is a lot more free market than Cable TV. You can stop and start at any time and if it gets too pricey, you can drop it. So you can binge watch a series like Game of Thrones and then stop it when you are done a month later. A month of Starz is around $10. Also, there is an expectation that streaming is supposed to be inexpensive.
Lastly, there are no regulatory and usage fees that are piled on high and wide on your typical on cable TV bill. Just the usual sales taxes. Our cable TV taxes and fees were around $50 per month.
Against a 185 million budget, and double that for marketing, Terminator Dark Fate lost money.
Meh. $34 million in box office in a week on a $50 million budget? Not exactly the end of the world. That's the catering budget on a Marvel movie. And it might have legs enough to play a few weeks, pull that number up. In the end, it's AT&T's money, and $20 million is a rounding error.
Yep. Liked his old stuff, stopped reading probably 15 years ago. Don’t think I’ve missed much, from what I’ve seen.
Thanks, but I know all about the options, just nothing I want to watch, including old stuff.
“For someone who wrote The Stand, he sure has difficulty with the Good vs Evil story in real life.”
My perspective on The Stand is the good guys were a drug addict, a single pregnant woman, an agnostic, and an atheist. The old black lady was more some kind of spiritualist than religious. If he has a religious person in his book, they are inevitably psycho; if he has a gun owner, they’re inevitably a crazy survivalist. I’ve read The Stand several times. I like the book but that is the reality of his thought process.
Better a lackluster box-office return than a smash hit. If these pukes keep losing money or barely breaking even, maybe they’ll get the message. I doubt it, but call me an eternal optimist ...
Jerk-wad King gets no more of my money. Either books or film $.
Yeah I don’t think the promo budget is that high.
The 185 number does check out, however:
https://screenrant.com/terminator-dark-fate-movie-budget-cost/
I’d like to see it. Trailers looked good.
Just came back from watching “Midway”...terrific movie.
Ewan McGregor isn't terrible, but nobody west of the Hebrides is really rooting for the guy.
AT&T will just deduct the loss from their taxes.
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