Just curious... Why do you care so much about how much $ they rake in at the box office?
Just curious... Why do you care so much about how much $ they rake in at the box office?
I enjoy roughly tracking box office dollars Kid, that's all.
It's not the first movie I've done this for and it won't be the last.#shrug
I agree with you in that Kirk can be seen as a toxic character type. A bit like the #notmyluke #lukefailure charactertype?Originally Posted by novicius
No YW, the point of USS Callister is a story set up against a single character type -- "Captain Kirk" is celebrated in the same way as "James Bond": take charge, kick-ass misogynists.
Whereas the diverse cast of The Force Awakens powered the movie to be the #3 flick of all time. This article is trying to frame TLJ disappointment as being soley a factor of the Alt Right which is inaccurate.
But there is more than one way of looking at the episode. It is also about seeking "ownership" of characters and a Universe.
I know. That's why I was asking.I enjoy roughly tracking box office dollars Kid, that's all.
It's not the first movie I've done this for and it won't be the last.As there have been lots of box office bombs that were really good movies.
Box office $$$ never meant squat to me, that's why I was wondering. Do you use it to see if there will likely be a sequel, if other people like it, if it will get nominations, or just out of your own amusement. (Some of the things I was wondering) Thanks for answering.
Eh kinda, just always interested me to read about how the studio heads receive their products I guess. A way to see if they like what they've paid for, in a sense.
I've pretty much always enjoyed reading about how well or poor movies do my whole life. You'd get tidbits of news through magazines like Starlog back in the day. I remember wondering why Disney's The Black Hole never received a sequel in the midst of the Star Wars hoopla at the time, for example. Poor returns, that's why. #shrug
Tho' I will say the earliest movie I can really remember tracking numbers for is Terminator 2 in '91.
So you have a box office success algorithm in your brain and you only watch movies to fine tune the parameters?
LoL yeah and I have a whole shelf full of one-off flicks that I love that weren't deemed worthy of a sequel.
Why I’m getting from it is that TLJ will be seen as a failure if it only just falls shy of a billion dollars in cinemas.
True first-world problem.
Dude, it's a massive success -- $1.3B from the box office is still Top 10 All-Time.
9-figure production budget, 9-figure marketing budget, part of a 10-figure IP acquisition cost, 50-75% theatre and distributors' cuts ...
One billion dollars could have been considered a failure.
There's also shady Hollywood accounting
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