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To: Republican Wildcat

$100 million? Pocket change. Disney did just shy of $10 billion in net profit last year. Disney’s first three Star Wars movies are all in the top 10 grossing movies of all time. Last Jedi is the #1 selling Blu-ray this year and was the #1 theatrical release of 2017. Despite the angry fanboys who got far more attention in the media than their numbers would suggest, the franchise is doing just fine. Solo’s problem is that it just wasn’t that good, and Disney knew it was a problem when they fired the original director and brought in Ron Howard to salvage what they could. Lone Ranger and John Carter were much bigger duds for Disney. And those don’t seem to have phased them.


106 posted on 06/27/2018 11:00:15 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

and the new Star Wars Land will bring another bill to disney starting next year


107 posted on 06/27/2018 11:03:38 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

In terms of actual Star Wars sales (not just sales made by Disney or Marvel or any other properties owned by Disney, but stuff strictly relating to Star Wars), however, they have yet to actually get back the $4.06 billion that they paid Lucas for the franchise (not to mention Indiana Jones, which reminds me, they haven’t seemed to touched Indiana Jones at all).

Someone on Breitbart actually gave a step-by-step process of how they’re doing with Star Wars regarding the sales:

A. Disney pays Lucas 4.06 billion dollars. That means at this point Disney is in the red at -4,060,000,000 dollars.
B. Disney makes a net profit on Force Awakens of 780 million dollars. That means at that point they are still -4,060,000,000 + 780,000,000 = -3,280,000,000 in the hole.
C. Disney makes a profit on Rogue One of 319 million dollars. They are now at -3,280,000,000 + 319,000,000 = -2,961000,000 in the hole.
D. Disney makes a profit on Last Jedi of 418 million dollars. At that point they are at -2,961,000,000 + 418,000,000 = -2,543,000,000
D. Disney makes one billion in merchandising and video. That means at that point they are -2,543,000,000 + 1,000,000,000 = -1,543,000,000 in the hole.
Still in the red but slowly digging themselves out but then:
E. Disney loses 250 million on Solo. At this point they are therefore still-1,543,000,000 - 250,000,000 = -1,793,000,000 in the hole on the deal.

So the long and the short of it is, they still haven’t come close to getting out of it. In fact, they’re barely even close to halfway to paying it off.

Also, Rotten Tomatoes viewership rating was pretty bad as you can see here regarding Last Jedi: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_last_jedi/

Also, regarding other duds, you forgot to mention A Wrinkle in Time.


109 posted on 06/27/2018 2:42:45 PM PDT by otness_e
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

No, Solo’s main problem was that The Last Jedi was horrific and people chose not to attend - this was compounded by the multiple insults hurled at the fanbase by LucasFilm’s current SJW leadership and the admission they are using Star Wars to push a left-wing political agenda. The Last Jedi’s DVD BluRay sales are not good for what they should be- they may barely make Rogue One’s numbers which was not even part of the episodic saga.

You are quite spin doctor for the Left’s behavior in trying to appropriate Star Wars - the fans are rejecting it. That is reality. A Star Wars movie not even being able to break even is a disaster of epic proportions.


111 posted on 06/27/2018 7:58:47 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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