The Dark Knight Rises Unsafe (?) Hype Thread |5 Spoiled, 2 Of Them Mods!|

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Scullibundo said:
Hmm. You made me watch it again and I will concede your point. I'm switching teams like Ray Winstone in Indy 4.
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*shakes hand*

Now let's get back to more pressing matters.

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Jesus christ, Deviant Art is spreading to outside the website! No one is safe.
 
Regarding the "dent man grab" debate, im on the "easter egg" intentional side.

A poor director wouldnt bother with having an additional action going on screen, while maroni and driver go on the other side of the car. The easy way out would be to just put dent in the car in the next scene.

The way Nolan set up the shot was for the audience to barely notice dent holding off the guy before sally and his driver entered.

It compliments Nolan general style of direction - that he sometimes crams in too many little details to add complexity. You can definitely argue these complexities distract at times, though. Especially in Inception - which makes it feel almost like a mistake.

So in some ways I agree with both views.
 
CrazyDude said:
This post is worded weirdly. It makes it sound he worked on the movie, and hates everything about it.
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Sorry. Let me rephrase.

My brother hates everything. There are very few movies that he likes. (And to add he did like the first two Nolan Bats movies, even though the Batman voice was horrible). He worked on TDKR and said that from what he could see in the times he was on set, this one should be better than Dark Knight. Spoiler tagging this bit because people are quite sensitive, but it is really not revealing much of anything
And that JGL had lots of scenes filmed with minimal crew and no one was allowed to know anything about him.
 
Whedon on TDKR

As for the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, which could potentially top The Avengers' record $207.4 million opening weekend, Whedon has only praise for the project's director, Christopher Nolan.

"I will feel sad," if the film eclipses his box office record. "But let's look at the bigger picture, and I can't say this enough: THIS IS NOT A ZERO SUM GAME. Our successes, whoever has the mostest, are a boon to each other. We're in the business of proving that superhero movies aren't just eye-candy (they're eye-TRUFFLES!). People seem intent on setting us against each other, and though I'm proud to be Woody Strode to Nolan's Kirk Douglas, I think they're missing the point. Whatever TDKR does on its first weekend, the only stat that matters to me is the ticket I'M definitely buying."
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http://whedonesque.com/comments/28797
 
shira said:
Something tells me avengers was a really expensive movie with a lot of marketing budget. Too bad we never see the net return. It's always box office numbers
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It cost $200M to make. Pretty sure its more than doubled in net return already.

Also wasn't there some new Bryan Singer movie this summer? About Jack and magic beans? Looked terrible in the one trailer I saw months ago.
 
effzee said:
It cost $200M to make. Pretty sure its more than doubled in net return already.

Also wasn't there some new Bryan Singer movie this summer? About Jack and magic beans? Looked terrible in the one trailer I saw months ago.
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rule of thumb. double the production cost to get the marketing and other costs including. Add to that 8% goes to Paramount


So say Avengers ends up with 1.4 Billion WW.

Its profit will be 1 Billion - 8%
 
effzee said:
It cost $200M to make. Pretty sure its more than doubled in net return already.

Also wasn't there some new Bryan Singer movie this summer? About Jack and magic beans? Looked terrible in the one trailer I saw months ago.
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Real or speculated costs?
 
Solo said:
$220M production budget + ? marketing budget.
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Well lets just double the production cost to include marketing and other misc costs we can't account for.

I'd say in total it cost the studio to make and market $450M. Its close to $700M already so by the end of its 2nd weekend it will have made back all its costs.
 
shira said:
Don't the actors sacrifice upfront salary for a %cut of the box office. Or did Disney lock them up. That would make he profit a lot less.
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Pretty sure all the Marvel guys are straight up salary, not backend deals. RDJ may be the exeption, if any. But I don't think he is (yet; he certainly will get that kind of deal when he re-ups next year).
 
I'm guessing only RDJ has the power to lock up percentage of gross but nonetheless, we're not even getting into home video sales and merchandising which are gonna be pure profit for the thing. Avengers will have made a ton of money, and the worldwide gross should cover up all the expenses and then some.
 
shira said:
What? The cg must have been huge for avengers
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NYC and LA location shoots are not cheap. This is one of the reasons they picked Chicago, they could afford it. Blank check comes, and now it's like "Hey, let's shoot in NYC. I hear they have nice bridges."
 
shira said:
What? The cg must have been huge for avengers
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Articles have stated that the estimated budget for TDKR is 250 million. WB trusts Nolan after he delivered them Inception. The studio will do anything to keep him happy unless of course TDKR fails, which is highly unlikely.
 
planar1280 said:
rule of thumb. double the production cost to get the marketing and other costs including. Add to that 8% goes to Paramount


So say Avengers ends up with 1.4 Billion WW.

Its profit will be 1 Billion - 8%
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And theatres play the movies for free, right?

~50% or there abouts of the gross is kept by the theatre chains. Higher percentage amounts overseas.

350M Cost (Budget + Marketing + Distribution)
1.4B Gross
650M+ Profit (assuming a split of 500M domestic, 900M foreign)
600M+ to Disney minus cost = 250M+ profit

In short, profit is nowhere near 900M.
 
Nesotenso said:
Articles have stated that the estimated budget for TDKR is 250 million. WB trusts Nolan after he delivered them Inception. The studio will do anything to keep him happy unless of course TDKR fails, which is highly unlikely.
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Wasn't there also a claim that he always comes in under-budget?
 
Andrex said:
Not buying it until I watch the movie.
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If you're refering to what I posted, I don't buy it either. Which made deciding how to post it difficult.


artist said:
And theatres play the movies for free, right?

~50% or there abouts of the gross is kept by the theatre chains. Higher percentage amounts overseas.

350M Cost (Budget + Marketing + Distribution)
1.4B Gross
650M+ Profit (assuming a split of 500M domestic, 900M foreign)
600M+ to Disney minus cost = 250M+ profit

In short, profit is nowhere near 900M.
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I thought theaters only got 25% of ticket sales max, at least for the first couple of weeks.
 
What point is there in covering Talia up? We saw her kissing Bruce in the trailer. Bruce really doesn't get around that much and his (sexual) relationship to Talia might be his most important in comics (considering Damian.)

Yenrot said:
*hasn't clicked link*
Oh golly, I wonder who this could be?

Edit: haha, wasn't what I was expecting, actually.
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Yeah I was expecting JGL. :P
 
Hero_of_the_Day said:
I thought theaters only got 25% of ticket sales max, at least for the first couple of weeks.
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Depends. The 50% is like planar's rule of thumb for doubling the budget for marketing costs, a big broad generalization for quick and dirty calc. Breakdown for Avengers might be something along these;

250M+ from theatre run
200M+ from disc sales + rentals
1M from OST sales
1T from merchandise (j/k)
 
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