Posted on 10/22/2017 12:48:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan
These pukes just
Gave us normies the finger
Told us if we liked Trump not to watch their shows
Called us racist xenophobes for finally calling illegals and Islamokooks what they are ungrateful unassimilated thieves and calling the sexually confused what they are, mentally ill
WTF do they expect?
When they unnecessarily remake classics
WTF do they expect?
I heard American Assassin cost 45M and grossed 176M...
Conservative movie...he he...
Bernie is that you?
Some of the recent hits (”Get Out” and “it”) are low-budget flicks with new talent not quite tainted....yet.
“Get Out”
4.5M Budget***
245M Box Office
(173M Domestic...77M Foreign)
“IT”
33M Budget***
651M Box Office: still playing in theaters
(320M Domestic...331M Foreign)
Low budget, creative writing, and new talent. From what I’ve read in the trades, these films are the exception as Hollywood is obsessed with big budget projects. Big studios don’t do the small films much these days. It’s typically smaller studios and indies which create this content.
A sample of the biggest flops this year
“Ghost in the Shell”
110M Budget + 60M advertising/Promotion
Opening weekend: 18M
Worldwide: 169M
Expected Loss: 60-70M
Note: If you gonna do Anime, don’t screw with the source material and don’t “whitewash” the main character. Anime is a niche genre in the States...treat it with caution.
GITS is suppose to be a though-provoking sci-fi drama not a boring, generic by-the-numbers cop flick.
Even the Japanese box office was abysmal.
“Power Rangers”
100M Budget + 30-40M advertising/Promotion
Opening Weekend: 40M
Worldwide: 142M
Expected Loss: 40M
Nostalgia can only get you so far.
“King Author, Legend of the Sword”
175M Budget + 60-75M Advertising/Promotion
Opening Weekend: 15M
Worldwide: 148M
Expected Loss: 120-140M
No one likes you Guy Richie and King Arthur is soooo last millennium.
“Valerian and the City of 1000 Worlds”
Budget: 175-200M + 70-80M Advertising/Promotion
Opening Weekend: 15M
Worldwide: 225M
Expected Loss: 110M
This is case where a director with a dream, and a gullible studio learn a hard lesson. The losses were so big that STX Studios and the director (who ponied up a lot of his own money) face bankruptcy.
***Tack on an additional amount for advertising and promotions but for these files it’s not much as the producers relied upon social media, favorable pre-screening with critics, out-of-the-box ideas and word-of-mouth.
Lucy, who do you think you married, some country pumpkin?”
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I forgive everyone who makes a typo...I am the worst, as my kindle changes many things I type.
I’m the worst on Freep, hands down...i laugh and yell at myself...
That said I know he meant bumpkin.
The slow death of liberalism beautiful.
I think movie theaters will be going out of business soon.
Hannity has his movie coming out, its a family friendly movie based on Christian values.
I plan to see it because I think he is right that good people have to bring back good values to American and MAGA.
“I think movie theaters will be going out of business soon.”
I hope so. Who needs them.
I get annoyed by FR’s love of harassing typo-makers, but this was kind of a cute one that reminded me of that episode!
Obviously they need to portray more Homosexuals, lesbians and transgender to increase the appeal of movies.
Gay Blade Runner?
We don’t need movies.
We can just sit back and watch them going down in flames.
It’s a new day in America and playtime is over!
Somebody enlighten me here.
Why would the studios “pull” movies from theaters early? All the big production and marketing expenses are paid, so why not let them bring in a few more bucks?
More Shakespeare!
I’ll decide.
Really, that’s the best you have. Usually I get called fag and commie.
And the funny thing is that I am not from Vermont, and I haven’t lived there for 40 years.
Make a lot of quick judgements based on names alone? I cannot tell if you are a frog or a whop. So, should I make fun of your ordor or your inability to fight in a war?
Saw it on a non-premium cable station recently. About half of the dialog was missing, but at least you heard gas being passed. Proving once again that fart jokes will always be funny, PC or not, but Schnitzengruben is verboten!
As said in Japan we have woken a sleeping giant.
If that entire industry crashed and burned, I would buy marshmallows and find a long, pointed stick.
Good to know. I hope it does well at the box office.
“It amazes me that Hollywood has never figured that out.”
My theory is that Hollywood is either simply incapable of making a film that is not repugnant and morally filthy, or it is run by people who would rather die than make a film without the filth.
Personally, I would have been very interested in seeing the Blade Runner sequel if it did not take the low road of using sex, nudity, and blasphemy.
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