I think the difference with Mario vs strange world or lightyear, is I think Mario will make a lot of money. And since its illumination, I can't see the budget being all that high. The trailer, while you aren't wrong about it, still looks pretty amusing. And I'm not a Mario fan.
And as I've shown before, Minions isn't the only movie that has a lesser budget than Lightyear/Strange World that made big bucks and looks visually fantastic. It just makes the situation more headscratching on where that budget is exactly going.Oh, I know. And that's a valid point. I used to socialize up in LA on occasion, and there were invariably some "industry" folks in attendance. They love to talk about their otherwise mundane jobs in "the industry" or at "the studio", to the sheer boredom of other party guests.
It appears to be a bloated, wasteful industry with entire battalions of hangers-on and endless ranks of white collar management jobs that do nothing for the actual product, and make for even less impressive party chatter.
Exactly. Minions cost less than half what Lightyear did, and Minions made almost quadruple the box office as Lightyear.
Using the triple-the-box-office-to-break-even formula several knowledgeable posters here have said is now the norm, the financials on Minions vs. Lightyear is frightening for Burbank. Or at least it should be frightening, if they know what's good for them.
Minions Rise of Gru - Production Budget $80 Million, Global Box Office $938 Million, Profit of $702 Million
Lightyear - Production Budget $200 Million, Global Box Office $226 Million, Loss of at least $174 Million?
This is simply not a sustainable way for Burbank to make movies. Especially now that the losses are adding up with each and every film. Just a bad string of luck? Perhaps. But something has to change ASAP.
As others have alluded to - if it were not for this forum, I wouldn't have known the film existed.Once I heard about the plot, and it's twists and surprise endings, I actually thought the storyline had a great deal of potential for them. Strange World's premise and plot could have been a really interesting and fun way to make bonzo box office money. It also could have skewed naturally to boys and their dads with that plot.
Strange World could have been big with guys and been the Anti-Frozen, if you will. But it didn't.
The early attendance demographics last week actually showed adult males mostly hated Strange World, while young women really liked it.
"Men over 25 were dominant at 33%, but hated it at 66%. Women over 25 were next in attendance at 24% but gave it a 90% grade."
‘Wakanda Forever’ Settles At $64M 5-Day, ‘Strange World’ Crashes $18M+, ‘Knives Out 2’ Wows With $13M+ – Thanksgiving Box Office Sunday Update
Box Office ‘Wakanda Forever’ Crosses $300M, ‘Strange World’ Tanking, 'Knives Out 2' Sharpdeadline.com
There has to have been a way to market this film better and explain its plot more without giving it away. Movie studios have done that with movies for decades. They have entire departments dedicated to marketing and communication. It's not an impossible task for highly paid professionals. But if too many of them are "working from home" with Merlot in their coffee cups, perhaps that task is now too much for them to accomplish?
Something went wrong with the marketing, that's for sure!
Moving on....
I don't know, would it? There is nothing wrong with actually experiencing something first hand even after you'd made an opinion on it. I mean if nothing else it would either confirm or disprove your original opinion on the subject.
Stay away from the "Social and Political" aspects of the topic, that is why your posts are getting deleted. Nothing to do with a specific poster, its how the site wants it. Its why I've tried to not wade too far into those aspects of topics as of late.
Well, if you see it, you will see that the animation is amazing.
I've seen comments saying it looked like "Smallfoot", a movie I've never heard of. Which is pretty bad.
Suit yourself, maybe you'll catch it when its streaming and see its not as "bad" as you thought. As I said in this thread before, I have no issue with having my 3 year old nephew watching this movie. That is if he would sit still during the movie that is, lol.
I saw Smallfoot, and I can see why those comments were made. Its actually a cute movie, you should check it out.
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Well again as someone who works in a highly skilled and highly collaborative job I can tell you that we're not drinking Merlot during Zoom calls. In fact I can state with personal experience in dealing with some from Disney over Zoom that at least the people I have been in contact with don't either.
I think Bob Iger nailed it in his town hall yesterday, when someone was bold enough to ask if Bob Iger was going to change that policy. He deferred that there was no announcement to make yet, but then he said...
"...he felt creative businesses worked best when employees were together in-person."
No kidding, Bob!
If the employees running the parks that are the company's only cash cow right now can get in their Honda, drive to work and show up 5 days a week while not wearing their pajamas, then the Burbank cubicle army can do the exact same thing to make a few bucks.
