ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on Trump says Hollywood 'dying' orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it 1 day ago:
This idea comes from his official Hollywood advisors, mainly Jon Voight but also Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson.
- Comment on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ 2 days ago:
A lot went there, even more went to Britain.
- Comment on Trump says Hollywood 'dying' orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it 2 days ago:
More productions go to Britain which is cheaper.
- Comment on Trump says Hollywood 'dying' orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it 2 days ago:
When they do take risks, no-one buys tickets.
- Comment on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ 3 days ago:
Well, yeah, production in California is an all-time low. This isn’t exactly the answer though.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 4 days ago:
Again, those figures are the negative cost.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 5 days ago:
You are not.
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2024 5 days ago:
You’re missing a few bits of knowledge that will help make sense of their comment:
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BO numbers are the total takings, and of course the exhibitors take a cut of that. For a big tentpole it starts maybe a 70/30 split in favour of the distributor, but by the end of the run it will be much less. As a rough rule of thumb, we divide the box office by two to get roughly how much gets back to the studio.
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When media and fans (and Wikipedia) quote a film’s “budget” they’re actually referring to the negative cost. This is the cost incurred in development, production and post-production, up to the point that the film exists in a full version ready for distribution (the negative). It does not include marketing and distribution costs (prints & advertising), such as posters, premieres, trailers, junkets, billboards, media campaigns, but also dubbing, subtitles and getting the files to the Theater (usually via costly satellite time). The rule of thumb for a major release is to say they spent at least the same again as the negative cost on P&A.
So if Madame Web had a budget around $100m, it cost the studio at least $200m. if it made $100m BO, then the studio got back $50m. So its a loss of around $150m.
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- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 5 days ago:
So still costing hundreds of millions, and not broadcasting audio, just the trigger signal? Sounds like an even more colossal waste of resources.
The vast majority of people have switched to smart meters without issue. For those where there are technical barriers, some sort of fallback should be provided. But the stubborn and bloody-minded should be left to it.
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 5 days ago:
The installations have to happen. Why spend hundreds of millions of licence fee payer’s money the BBC doesn’t have on a temporary kicking of the can?
- Comment on Kneecap apologises to families of Sir David Amess and Jo Cox 1 week ago:
Their personas and performances are definitely tongue-in-cheek. No-one (not already on a watchlist) who attended those events would come away with the impression they were actually inciting murder.
However they recently called out Israel at a major American event, and so the bot farms are in furious overdrive to amplify any clippable moment.
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 1 week ago:
It would cost millions to design and build it and, as it would be the only one in the world ever built, it would again rely on bespoke components, for a service the BBC has been wanting to close for nearly 20 years anyway.
- Comment on Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 50: a hilarious comic peak 1 week ago:
Bors.
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 1 week ago:
Then good luck as you embark on your new life without electricity.
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 1 week ago:
The issue isn’t the funds, it’s the practicality. The transmitter needs two obsolete valves to operate, and the BBC bought the entire world’s supply in around 2010, which still amounted to less than ten. When one of the final pair blows it’s the end regardless of money.
- Comment on Apple TV+ is ‘worst marketer in the universe,’ says producer 1 week ago:
…Ted Lasso?
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 1 week ago:
Satire doesn’t have to be “funny”. I think you’re running into the rigidity of your expectations.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
You’d have to work pretty hard to get drunk on small beer.
- Comment on Sinners Is the Non-IP Hit Hollywood Needed 1 week ago:
Then again by-the-numbers MCU action figure commercials do better business than Shakespeare adaptations.
- Comment on Shazam director swore he'd never do another IP-based movie again after "crazy" backlash from DC fans, but Until Dawn's script was just too good to pass up: "I had to do it" 1 week ago:
Yeah, no. In franchise films, the director has very little influence on how it turns out. Studio leadership, producers, and the franchise star(s) all have greater control.
- Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda 1 week ago:
So you didn’t get it. That’s fine.
- Comment on Jennifer Lawrence was quoted implying that The Hunger Games was the first female-led action movie ... today I want to introduce you to one of my favorite exceptions: The Long Kiss Goodnight. 2 weeks ago:
Zorro’s Black Whip beats Hunger Games by 68 years.
- Comment on ‘Nobody has done this before’: Britain’s beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology 2 weeks ago:
This is the first outfit of a steam locomotive with ETCS Level 2, hence the length and cost of the project.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 2 weeks ago:
They were part of a land grab that took it from the Spanish along with Guam and some other places. Gained independence in 1946.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 2 weeks ago:
Lack of hostile land grabs? West of the Mississippi, Texas, Hawaii and the Philippines would beg to differ.
- Comment on Anti-Trans Ruling in UK Strips Protections From Trans Women 3 weeks ago:
This bombastic style of reporting isn’t helpful. The ruling doesn’t “strip” protections, it clarifies that Scotland made a law based on an error in interpretation of an earlier law, ergo those protections never existed. It further points out that the Equalities Act confers protections on trans people regardless.
This is an opportunity to introduce the protections Scotland thought were in force, but actually.
- Comment on Netflix's 'Zero Day' Added $146 Million to New York Economy 3 weeks ago:
Lead actors would be contracted centrally from LA, while day players and local recurring roles would be NY actors.
They’re basically talking about monies paid to NY contractors for construction, stages, crew, locations, catering, accommodation, equipment rental and materials.
- Comment on Netflix's 'Zero Day' Added $146 Million to New York Economy 3 weeks ago:
It’s a trade paper, not a fan site. It’s relevant information to the industry it reports on.
- Comment on Netflix's 'Zero Day' Added $146 Million to New York Economy 3 weeks ago:
Because the lead actors aren’t part of local spend.
- Comment on A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks( facial age estimation, ...etc) and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU. 3 weeks ago:
Good thing russian hackers don’t know how to get into a database