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Wkd Box Office - 3•8-10•19 - Slayven's nightmare becomes reality, as audiences spend $153M domestic and $455M worldwide on Carol Danvers' debut.
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The studio's cut of the gross hasn't even covered the production budget yet.
It's his Bronson and Slayven Alt Accounts he'll never admit to.
Can we talk about how absolutely nuts this interview with Lorenzo di Bonaventura is and how these are the most wild numbers I've ever seen?
https://news.tfw2005.com/2019/03/13...rs-live-action-movie-remains-undecided-384848
Imagine a movie based off the dopey looking early-2000s era Canadian show that got the green light based entirely on someone saying the name "Optimus Primal" over their lunch break having the distinction of being the highest budgeted movie in film history.
I can't even fathom what in the movie would warrant such cash.
https://news.tfw2005.com/2019/03/13...rs-live-action-movie-remains-undecided-384848
Imagine a movie based off the dopey looking early-2000s era Canadian show that got the green light based entirely on someone saying the name "Optimus Primal" over their lunch break having the distinction of being the highest budgeted movie in film history.
I can't even fathom what in the movie would warrant such cash.
Are they gonna make the Transformers out of pure cocaine or like why would you spend $450M (just typing that out feels insane) on some weirdass spinoff film?
Second best March Tuesday, behind only Beauty and the Beast ($17.8m).
https://deadline.com/2019/03/captain-marvel-tuesday-box-office-record-1202574950/
For some perspective, this supposedly had a lower budget than Alita. Granted, its ad buy ins were probably significantly higher, but shows how high the bar is for a movie like this to break even.
I think he's talking about the rumor that Sony is in talks to buy Take Two. Apparently taken out of context, but if Google is serious about entering the game industry then I think Sony will make a big gaming acquisition to protect its future in that core pillar industry for them.
1. A Beast Wars film will never happen. It's just not viable.
2. Does Beast Wars even have name recognition anymore outside the Transformers fanbase? (Genuine question--I'm so steeped in the fandom that I don't know).
3. Lorenzo is so full of shit. He literally says whatever he wants, even when it doesn't make sense. There's not a chance in hell the movie would actually cost that much.
4. I wonder when they'll announce which Transformers films actually are coming next? It feels weird to be excited about this franchise again.
Captain Marvel succeeded and the only people who knew she existed were comic readers and who watched the occasional recent Marvel cartoon. It can be done. Of course whether it'll be marketed properly or a good movie are unknown variables.
There's a difference between buying gaming studios strengthen your future as a dominant gaming force and buying a publisher that has so many redundancies for a company like Sony that it would render the deal a waste of money.
Looking more and more like a lock so long as these dailies hold.
wtf why
what's so special about beast wars that would have the budget balloon so high above the other transformers movies? it's the same shit.
I think Beast Wars would actually be huge with all the 90s nostalgia stuff going on right now. Especially if it's good, and it feels like Transformers finally has some momentum after Bumblebee.
We never got proper 80s (aka REAL) Transformers nostalgia until Bumblebee. Let us old fogies have some of them before we move onto the Beast Wars stuff.
"There's a difference between buying production and independent companies and licenses to strengthen your future as a dominant movie studio force and buying another major studio that has so many redundancies for a company like Disney that it would render the deal a waste of money."
Shit happens. Times are changing. We'll see what Google will show next week, but if they are serious, Sony needs to be very serious about protecting their position in gaming.
Give me a $200mi-budgeted theatrical release with Waspinator in it or give me death.
Enough with the car shit.
Enough with the car shit.
Hahaha you're not in finance. Those redundacies are synergies!
I didn't even realize this was in Box Office thread. I thought this was in the Xbox Studios thread. LOL
According to him (so I guess take it with a grain of salt) the next movies on the docket are Bumblebee 2, a Prime spinoff, and an animated Cybertron movie.
Please finish the game story. Somebody. Anybody.
I loved Beast Wars as a kid but a Beast Wars film with a $450 million budget would be such a big bomb it would probably bankrupt Paramount.
That wound will never fully heal. He will carry it the rest of his life.
I haven't seen it yet, is it better than the (not so good) first trailer?
It's honestly very similar. Doesn't give anything, doesn't say anything. Probably the whole trailer is within the first 30 mins of the movie with the possible exception of the Thor scene.
8.6 Wedn for CM
Shazam is looking to open between 40-45 million
https://variety.com/2019/film/box-o...ce-opening-weekend-early-tracking-1203162051/
Shazam is looking to open between 40-45 million
https://variety.com/2019/film/box-o...ce-opening-weekend-early-tracking-1203162051/
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Oof. I know, I know. Low budget. New IP. Not everything can open at $100+.
But I hope it opens higher. Everything about it looks great.
That's not bad for its budget, is it?
I guess it depends on legs and overseas, too.
I really want it to do well, and I want more of them. DCEU needs this kind of tone in its lineup.
I really like Alita, but man, is that ending and cameo so fucking stupid and it will be even dumber years down the line since it probably won't get sequels. Like, Super Mario Bros. The Movie stupid. I can already see a podcast like We Hate Movies laughing at that ending.
Also, the 2nd failed franchise starter that Ed Norton appears in.(Counting The Bourne Legacy where he also plays a big bad that will be taken down in sequels that never materialize)
Ha I've seen 80 and 90 today... it's somewhere in that range, but not like bank breaking like most of em
I'm going 80-85 domestic OW on Shazam, trailers have honestly been great and Twitter impressions have been as well
Preaching to the choir here, really want a Flash and Green Lantern Corps movie in this tone
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