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Wkd BO 1013-1517 - Audiences show Death Day & Jackie Chan what love is, Blade dull
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Someone somewhere is sitting on the idea for a Stephen King version of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickensian_(TV_series)
excelsiorlef
Member
Always happy when solid low budget horror flicks make bank... usually means we'll get more of them
Oh China still to come? Great.
I am sure they are going to do a third one at this rate.
So I know all about these large film studios like Legendary, Universal, Fox, Sony, Warner and Disney. And then I see companies like Blumhouse, Acorn and Weinstein, are these just smaller production houses who gets their work distributed by the larger companies? Are there many more smaller studios out there?
So, there are some production companies that do rely on a larger studio distributing for them (Blumhouse being a notable example), but there are others that do handle their own distribution, like A24, albeit on a much smaller scale than at one of the majors.
OrangeAtlas
Member
Even Marvel had other companies distributing their movies until the Disney buyout.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Blumhouse the gods
It made its production budget back, but it still has quite a ways to go considering all the marketing it now has to pay for. I think the most optimistic one can be for its performance by the end of its run is one of disappointment.
Happy it got made at least, Will buy the 4K Bluray when it hits too. Still sucks about it's performance though
Oh nice, I didn't realize it still had China and Japan left.
My guess would be about $25M down from the first film domestically, up slightly overseas minus China, plus whatever China does. It's hard to make any predictions when it comes to Chinese box office.
Even if China is way down, it should pass $350M. $400M is not unreasonable if China matches or exceeds the first film's take.
It's still in the red, distributors don't get to keep 100% of its earnings. And that's not accounting for P&A.
As it looks of now:
Warner just distributes so they're fine.
Sony might have a shot at making its money back but not much more than that since BR is doing okayish internationally.
Alcon is going to lose money, question is how much.
The biggest worry as I see it is that BR opened to only $1.7 million in South Korea (admittedly with apparently three strong local films playing), that's not good for its chances in Japan and China. Then again:
Warner Bros will have spent a budget of $50m across their summer/fall horrors, and made back $1b before marketing ect. Amazing.
$250M could probably happen without China if overseas legs don't completely die.
illmatic22
Banned
Death Day any good? Might check it out.
Prototype Viktor
Member
they skate on by with only making 5 to 13000 times the budgets
Paranormal Activity - 12866x
Paranormal Activity 2 - 59x
Insidious - 64x
Paranormal Activity 3 - 41x
Sinister - 25x
Paranormal Activity 4 - 28
and that's only their first 6 films
After Kingsman I was all in on a sequel.
After Kingsman 2 I'm done. Not that it's bad, it just feels like they ran out of ideas.
Anything under $300m for BR2049 is a total disaster. I imagine that all the talent has back end deals too given that it's an 'independent' production and would probably have had to pay through the nose to bring Sir Ridley back onboard.
All in all this means a ton of red ink for Alcon and Sony Pictures despite all the spinning that was done in Deadline this past week.
Legendary is not a large film studio. It doesn't have it's own distribution and just releases everything through Universal and WB for the Godzilla/Kong films.
Legendary doesn't currently have a CEO (nor has had one for the last year IIRC) and it's Chinese owner has been trying to quietly sell it for the last six months or so to little enthusiasm.
friskykillface
Banned
Believe in Jackie Chan
Saw the foreigner this weekend and thought it was good
Saw the foreigner this weekend and thought it was good
mugurumakensei
Member
It's a fun movie.
Roronoa Zoro
Gold Member
Screw blade runner as a franchise and especially this new one. Thats the closest Ive ever come to falling asleep in the theater and Ive never felt so detached from characters before. Someone just kill all the damn robots
Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order
Member
There's a spectrum between "Blade Runner is the greatest thing ever" and "Blade Runner is so bad it will make you fall asleep".
Yeah, me neither lol. I don't remember seeing any previews or trailers for it or anything.
Not hard to believe that WB's horror films will be more profitable then JL for them at this stage unless the later is a monster hit
AdventureRacing
Member
They're pretty much more profitable than everything being made.
Pyroclastic
Banned
Any UK folk lucky enough to live near somewhere that's showing the death of stalin? I had no idea it was going to have such a limited run, there are no screenings within 20 miles of me. looks like I'll have to head to my nearest city and catch one of the 3 or 4 times it's on. I assume it's probably going to be like this in the US and elsewhere too
Lights and Waves
Member
Saw these threee thanks to MoviePass:
1. Death Day was fucking fantastic. Mean Girls meet horror.
2. Foreigner was great. Pierce stole the show.
3. Wonder Women was touching. It felt like a made for TV movie though. Would have been better as a Netflix release.
1. Death Day was fucking fantastic. Mean Girls meet horror.
2. Foreigner was great. Pierce stole the show.
3. Wonder Women was touching. It felt like a made for TV movie though. Would have been better as a Netflix release.
Violence Jack
Member
Damn. Blade Runner deserves so much better than this. Maybe it ends up making a killing on DVD/Blu-Ray and a bump for possible Oscar considerations.
Honestly this song was a great way to advertise this movie. I didn't know anything about the movie, yet putting this in the commercial made it stay on my mind. Might go see this tomorrow.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Weirdly not in the movie.
Damn, so no Channing spinoff?
I am still waiting for Oculus 2
Other studios could earn a lot from them
hodayathink
Member
For every $5 million horror movie you see that ends up in theaters, there's like 3-5 more that end up going straight to DVD/streaming. It's not a sure bet in the slightest.
Edit: That being said, the reason they've said they put their budgets around there is that if the movies end up terrible, they can usually make about that much just from licensing/streaming.
Make more movies.
Blumhouse is privately held.
So idk, buying guns and shit in order to take over the world I guess. 🤷
The reason I ask is they're obviously not pouring that into more ambitious movies(and I'm not suggesting there's any reason for them to). Just wondering if they just have a ton of cash on hand or it just goes up Jason Blum's nose or what
The distributors are actually taking more of a risk than Blumhouse when they push a film for wide release, so Blumhouse is almost certainly taking a minority cut of the studio take.
Also, Blumhouse has been (slowly) increasing their budgets over the years. Jason Blum just doesn't believe in big budget films. After what happened to Alcon and Europacorp this year, probably a wise decision.
Also, Blumhouse has been (slowly) increasing their budgets over the years. Jason Blum just doesn't believe in big budget films. After what happened to Alcon and Europacorp this year, probably a wise decision.
moltonasty
Member
Seriously, why are people not watching Blade Runner, I legitimately don't understand.
Popular leading actors, fantastic visuals, and great reviews. Was the advertising really that bad? :/
Popular leading actors, fantastic visuals, and great reviews. Was the advertising really that bad? :/