Weekend Thread....Please read the staff announcement pg 104 (Solo 29.2...DP 23.3...Adrift 11.5)

[Thrylos 7]

2 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Like I said, those are opinions (and the first one is taken out of context and twisted) and nothing wrong with being wrong on those.  

 

What dumbfuck @MovieMan89 and yourself and many others do very often is twist and turn everything and anything into whatever fits the narrative.  On this very page you have MovieMan89 making some inane argument in response to a post that is completely inaccurate.  

 

You morons operate off pure emotion, which is hilarious for a site based on numbers and math and facts and statistical trends.  Somehow what should be a fun site to discuss the numbers of everything turns into this emotional drivel.  

 

 

Seriously who the hell do you think you are ? Because you post some, usually not very accurate , numbers here you have the right to bathe everyone else with your insults, your vulgar language and your bullshit. The mods won’t tell you this, some people are afraid to do so, so I will ....SHUT THE FUCK UP. 

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Participation is going to be much higher.  Reynolds will be making even more bank on the back end as actor writer, producer

Yea I figured as much. Which is why I'm thinking the figure is closure to $150M (and possibly less than that). I have no clue which is why I asked. 

 

I'll be interested in the breakdown for it though

[Cap]

11 minutes ago, Nova said:

So what are the chances that Ashes gets nominated for a best original song at the Oscars? I really wanna see Celine Dion perform with Deadpool in the background 

 

The lights are dark.  A single spotlight on Celine throughout the first verse.  Then she hits "out of AAASHES", and then the lights go up, and there's a company of dancers dressed as Deadpool in heels.

[Moviefanatic]

This thread is gonna get locked soon lol 

[mikee11]

8 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Like I said, those are opinions (and the first one is taken out of context and twisted) and nothing wrong with being wrong on those.  

 

What dumbfuck @MovieMan89 and yourself and many others do very often is twist and turn everything and anything into whatever fits the narrative.  On this very page you have MovieMan89 making some inane argument in response to a post that is completely inaccurate.  

 

You morons operate off pure emotion, which is hilarious for a site based on numbers and math and facts and statistical trends.  Somehow what should be a fun site to discuss the numbers of everything turns into this emotional drivel.  

 

 

This is pure projection. You were the same with The Last Jedi, insulting everyone and denying the objective truth until even your mental gymnastics couldn't do it anymore. And mods wouldn't do anything bcs ""insider""

[MrGlass2]

5 minutes ago, Nova said:

I wonder how much profit Deadpool 2 is going to bring in for Fox. I know the first one had a net profit of $322M (according to Deadline) but since this one cost $110M and will likely bring in $85M less or so I'm wondering how much lower that number is. I'm guessing it'll be a net profit of $150M-$200M? 

That sounds about right, following Deadline's method (not sure how close they are to reality, probably an informed but difficult guess without knowing all details of contracts etc).

[DAR]

[That One Girl]

has anyone else seen Upgrade?  thoughts on it?  good movie, right?

[TwoMisfits]

See, I came in this thread to use my fresh new 100 likes for a month, and you all (outside of Nova) are making it hard for me to dole them out:)...thanks again, Dax!

[EmpireCity]

1 minute ago, Thrylos 7 said:

Seriously who the hell do you think you are ? Because you post some, usually not very accurate , numbers here you have the right to bathe everyone else with your insults, your vulgar language and your bullshit. The mods won’t tell you this, some people are afraid to do so, so I will ....SHUT THE FUCK UP. 

 

What was that?  Did you say something?  

 

Nice of your parents to let you use the computer tonight.  

[RRA]

 

6 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

You do know they have at least three more movies already in production? They are not going to "reboot" anything. And why would they when 4/5 of these movies have been hits?

 

Giving up on the "franchise" scheme wouldn't necessarily be wise either:

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=dccomics.htm

 

Except Batman movies, they had 0 hits since Superman II (1981). A "reboot" could mean a return to the glory days of Catwoman and Green Lantern.

Superman III was a hit. Lousy sequel, but a hit regardless. 

 

Anyway DCEU (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) won't reboot, you can thank WW for that. They'll shrug off those creative duds and move on like the X-Men movies and their infamous continuity issues did. And until King Mickey finally takes over Fox, they were financially having a good run for the most part the last few years. 

[cax16]

2 minutes ago, Thrylos 7 said:

Seriously who the hell do you think you are ? Because you post some, usually not very accurate , numbers here you have the right to bathe everyone else with your insults, your vulgar language and your bullshit. The mods won’t tell you this, some people are afraid to do so, so I will ....SHUT THE FUCK UP. 

[baumer]

3 hours ago, Nova said:

I wonder how much profit Deadpool 2 is going to bring in for Fox. I know the first one had a net profit of $322M (according to Deadline) but since this one cost $110M and will likely bring in $85M less or so I'm wondering how much lower that number is. I'm guessing it'll be a net profit of $150M-$200M? 

 

I'm sure Fox took all of this into consideration when they green lit dP2.  RR also gets a bigger slice of the pie via back end this time around.  It's just the cost of doing business when you have an incredibly successful film that no one saw coming.

 

Remember Breaking Dawn 1 and 2?  The budgets for the other sequels were around 60 million and then BD1 and BD2 shot up to around 120 and that's because the big three demanded and received 20 mill per movie....again, cost of doing business.

[That One Girl]

4 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Meh, sorry mods.  

 

I will try to stop responding to the idiot crowd that is posting on mom and dad's wifi while eating hot pockets and jerking off to Harley Quinn fan art.  

 

This post gave me serious J.K. Simmons in Whiplash vibes lmao

[Zakiyyah6]

1 minute ago, EmpireCity said:

 

What was that?  Did you say something?  

 

Nice of your parents to let you use the computer tonight.  

Why did you have to quote him? I have him on ignore for a reason.

[Rebeccas]

Wasn’t Ryan always a producer on DP? I’m sure he got a bigger paycheck on this but he always seemed keen on keeping costs low and maintaining the R-rated freedom. Given that it was a point of conflict between him and Miller, I don’t see any skyrocketing costs on DP2. Also new cast members probably weren’t that expensive either although Brolin is probably getting paid more for the next one. 

[Nova]

2 minutes ago, captainwondyful said:

The lights are dark.  A single spotlight on Celine throughout the first verse.  Then she hits "out of AAASHES", and then the lights go up, and there's a company of dancers dressed as Deadpool in heels.

THIS is why I need it to happen. Like could you imagine how great it would and then to just have Celine have a straight face throughout the whole thing 

[Mekanos]

Just now, Rebeccas said:

Wasn’t Ryan always a producer on DP? I’m sure he got a bigger paycheck on this but he always seemed keen on keeping costs low and maintaining the R-rated freedom. Given that it was a point of conflict between him and Miller, I don’t see any skyrocketing costs on DP2. Also new cast members probably weren’t that expensive either although Brolin is probably getting paid more for the next one. 

He took a pay cut for DP1 so it would get made, I heard.

[baumer]

Look ladies and gentlemen, this has gone on long enough.  It started with the DCEU and we didn't put the lid on that quick enough,  It made the forums unbearable for a time.  So we had to make the spoiling the well rule.  

 

Same thing goes here.  It's not a SW bias as some have suggested.  It's that about a dozen posters have all complained about the same things.  We can't have a shit storm/blitzkrieg against one film.  There are threads for that.  We have said in the past, if you want to talk about this stuff, do it in the Fanboy Wars thread.  But so many of you just can't help yourselves and you have to poke at it, tear to shreds, beat the dead horse and hit the spin cycle and repeat.  And that's not what this site is supposed to be about.  We want to talk box office, not just one movie but all movies.  

 

You want to talk about Solo dropping 65%?  Go for it.  But do it rationally and remember that you might think you know stuff because of what you read but bottom line is it's all speculation.  And saying something like Star Wars is in trouble when it had one film bomb is borderline trollish.

 

Here's the bottom line with Star Wars (and hopefully y'all take heed to this)

 

TLJ made a pile of money and Disney will see a ton of profit from it.

TLJ also upset a lot of fans

It's possible and likely that this contributed to the lack of interest to Solo, but there are several other factors in this

Solo is bombing 

Episode 9 has some work to do

Disney and Star Wars are not in trouble because of one film 

 

These are the things that have been discussed in the weekend thread since December of 2017.

 

it's time to let it go.  

 

AND 

 

As moderators we will ensure that we treat all films this way.  We realize that we took too long to stomp out the fire when it comes to DC....we should have done it way sooner.

 

And now this SW stuff has really started to ruin the forums.  There are dozens of posters in here who just want to talk box office. Seeing the same shit brought up over and over again makes people not want to stay and not want to be here.  And that has to stop.  

 

So we are going to unlock the thread but please, all of you, myself and the mods included, let's try to keep this civil.  Be better than what we have been.

 

Thanks,

 

The Staff.

[Water Bottle]

Here's the fanboy thread:

 

You can discuss The Last Jedi here:

And of course you should check out the thread for the best science fiction movie currently out: