Comment on Sydney Sweeney to Star in ‘Split Fiction’ Film Adaptation From Director Jon M. Chu, ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Writers (EXCLUSIVE)

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Movies have been doing tie-ins for decades. It costs a lot of money to release a game and they probably had feelers out months before the release.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But on an unproven new IP? That’s unusual. Like Split Fiction is popular, so it worked out, but they must have been putting in a fair amount of work on the prayer that it was well received.

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m more a movie guy than a game guy, but I can think of dozens of times they gambled on tie-ins before the product was released. There was a movie “The Hindenberg” back in the 1970s. They tried to make tie-in jewelry about a disaster. Besides, we don’t know how many pre-orders there are.

      Again, I’m not an expert, but it doesn’t look too far-fetched to me.

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