Red Mosquito

Posted: **Wed August 03, 2016 9:32 pm**

SS has to make something like $800 million to break even. I don't understand that if it 'only' cost $175 million to make.

Posted: **Wed August 03, 2016 9:36 pm**

If I remember correctly, Studios make a lot less per ticket on international sales than US, so international vs domestic sales revenues aren't the same.

That and marketing budgets are usually as high if not higher than the production budget. Crazy, but that's how it goes.

Posted: **Wed August 03, 2016 9:38 pm**

That makes sense I guess but SS is another great example of 10/10 marketing for a 3/10 film so what's going wrong?

'THR says the price tag for Suicide Squad was “at least $175 million” and that for the film to be a success, a studio veteran explains, “The movie’s got to do $750 million, $800 million to break even. If they get anywhere close to that, they’ll consider it a win.” That’s a lofty goal, and while the movie is tracking for a huge opening weekend, it will need to have legs to hit that mark.'

Posted: **Wed August 03, 2016 9:43 pm**

Whatever the math, it doesn't seem like a very sustainable business model.

Posted: **Wed August 03, 2016 10:42 pm**

On average a studio needs to double the cost of the movie in sales to break even. That's before marketing

Posted: **Wed August 03, 2016 10:56 pm**

Again they should all look at what deadpool did. Made for peanuts, marketed brilliantly but made about ten times its budget.

Do more with less.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 2:58 am**

dimejinky99 wrote:Again they should all look at what deadpool did. Made for peanuts, marketed brilliantly but made about ten times its budget.

Do more with less.

And it was the absolute most faithful to the comics movie that's ever been made.

(Well, that and Sin City.)

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 3:17 am**

durdencommatyler wrote:No but it is worth noting, for sure. That's one out of many, many, many, many reasons why Hollywood hasn't cared much about international grosses. They've basically seen that as pure profit. Money on top of money

"What? China? Nah, we don't worry about it. That's just pure profit. Like, money on top of money. Nothing a business would worry about."

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 7:29 pm**

McParadigm wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:No but it is worth noting, for sure. That's one out of many, many, many, many reasons why Hollywood hasn't cared much about international grosses. They've basically seen that as pure profit. Money on top of money
"What? China? Nah, we don't worry about it. That's just pure profit. Like, money on top of money. Nothing a business would worry about."

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 7:35 pm**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 7:35 pm**

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 7:43 pm**

tragabigzanda wrote:Oh! I can rank the Star Trek films I've seen:

1. Wrath of Khan
2. JJ Abrams, pt 1

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 8:21 pm**

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 8:27 pm**

I did not get the chance to see this yesterday.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 9:27 pm**

You'll enjoy it I think. Even if only cos it's totally unlike the previous two.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 9:35 pm**

I goddamn loved the first two, though.

But I do like the idea of the third one being different.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 9:36 pm**

durdencommatyler wrote:I goddamn loved the first two, though.

But I do like the idea of the third one being different.

Oh don't get me wrong I loved/liked the first two as well. But this succeeds for me for doing something different. In that it feels like an episode. And one of the episodes that really were great. That's really why I like it and think it works.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 9:38 pm**

dimejinky99 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:I goddamn loved the first two, though.

But I do like the idea of the third one being different.

Oh don't get me wrong I loved/liked the first two as well. But this succeeds for me for doing something different. In that it feels like an episode. And one of the episodes that really were great. That's really why I like it and think it works.

I need to fucking see this thing already.

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 10:10 pm**

tragabigzanda wrote:Oh! I can rank the Star Trek films I've seen:

1. Wrath of Khan
2. JJ Abrams, pt 1

This is such a good post

Posted: **Thu August 04, 2016 10:32 pm**

tragabigzanda wrote:Oh! I can rank the Star Trek films I've seen:

2. JJ Abrams, pt 1

Did you like this Star Wars movie more than his other Star Wars movie?

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