No, they're simply part of the line and are used as an arbitrary barometer to gauge the success of the current incarnation, or vice versa. No one would measure TRON: Legacy against its predecessor, so it's not an universal axiom. Cars 2 is in many ways different than the original. So let the prattle subside until all of the monies have been counted.....
No one is going to judge movies that are 2 or 3 decades apart in releases, but they will when the movies are 5 years apart. Disney judges films based on the performance of others in the same franchise, this is why they gave up on narnia.
Cars 2 is different from cars, but the selling point of the movie is the characters from the original. Look at what the premise is, lightning mcqueen competes internationally and mader is thought to be a spy. A movie about a nascar vehicle racing open wheel vehicles and a redneck thought to be a spy would be greenlite with a $200 million budget.
One, this isn't true in the industry or in the eye of the public.
Two, it isn't the argument you've been making for almost 50 posts. You're changing the argument now because you're previous points didn't hold water.
One, yes it is. There is no question that the public judges sequels to the preceding movie. Movie studios also judge sequels' performance to the proceeding film, this is one of main factors in approving future movies in the same franchise. If Spiderman 2 made $200 or $300 million less than Spiderman, would Columbia have approved Spiderman 3? Or would POTC: AWE had been approved with a larger budget if DMC had made much less than BP?
Second, this is my original post:
After the weekend, Cars 2 has made 17 million less domestically than Cars after 24 days, without any sign that it is going to make more than 2 million per day. Along with that, the budget is atleast 80 million more than Cars. It seems that Disney may barely break even.
So can we finally call Cars 2 a flop?
The whole point of me starting this thread was to state that Cars 2 is a flop when compared to the original. All of the comments I have made after post #1 is to support that.
flavious27,
Answer this simple question. How much does Cars 2 have to earn to not be a flop?
You said in earlier posts that making a profit was the standard and you also sited $333 million as the number Cars 2 needs to break even.
Is $333 million the number?
$333 million would be the break even point, without knowing what the P&A budgets were. But with the larger budget, Cars 2 would need to make $594 million to have the same profit as Cars. There isn't going be anyway that Cars 2 will earn another $261 million.
