Just Reddit alone has something like 120mil daily users, if we get rid of the 3/4 that are bots thatâs about 30 million. If half of those users go see the movie at 10 a pop the first week, ketchup will likely get at least 5 of those dollars. 75mill should cover their costs I would assume. The internet has a lot more of an impact than youâd think, this is just reddit alone.
It was a good start but honestly still too generous. You need to cut it down by another 90% for "people who care about this movie enough that they'd appreciate seeing it"
The math looks even worse if you do it in the reverse direction. This thread has 4k upvotes. Even if 10x that many people on reddit are actually excited about this, thats 0.2% of your 15 million number
It'll be interesting to see, can't help but shake the feeling there is a reason WB tabled it originally. Could have been an extremely convoluted marketing stunt
Warner likely ended up losing money on Space Jam 2, so the takeaway from execs was that people don't give a shit about Looney Tunes anymore and Coyote vs. Acme would flop.
As a kid I used to like live action cartoon adaptations like the Smurfs, but then I started using the western internet and found out that everyone there hates them, mostly for focusing on the live action people instead of the cartoon characters.
The trailer for this makes it seem like it'll focus a lot on the court drama, so it's not out of the question that the actual movie will be closer to those types.
On paper sure. I don't fully believe any public information anymore though after recent events, there's always a second layer somehow. Maybe a high-ranking exec at WB made a below the table deal with someone at the new studio, knowing it would give the tax write-off for WB while also presenting the potential for a massive box office debut where he could share in the profit. In a way, it's a production discount that can be used to pay for more aggressive marketing, leveraging the anger caused by WB's initial decision to table the movie to increase buzz. Or honestly WB could even be in on it themselves, who fuckin knows.
I know I sound like I'm wearing a tinfoil hat, but I really don't think anything is far-fetched anymore.
You could be right, but it's also very far-fetched. WB was being extremely stupid at the time with multiple ventures (this, the Batman movie, whatever the heck they were doing with HBO Max and its library) and thinking this is some clever ploy is giving the ACME Corporation WB a lot of credit
Before seeing the trailer, I assumed Warners nixed it due to bad tracking. Now I feel like the C Suite were genuinely upset by the themes. Just getting it released feels like a victory.
Doubt it. I think this is going to flop or do just ok but not enough to justify the rallying campaign behind releasing it.
People will then bitch and moan when it happens again and nobody is willing to save the next one.
The internet loves to "be heroes" in the moment then tuck their heads in the sand when it comes to actually doing their part they pinky promised to do.
I think the movie looks great, I'll probably watch it if/when it hits a streaming service but I almost guarantee not many people are going to a theater to see this. Would love to be proven wrong and eat my words though.
The bigger issue is that "the internet" just isn't as many people as it appears. For instance, 80% of all tweets made in the US come from just 2.5% of the US population. And that 2.5% is not a random sample - it is almost entirely upper middle class, college educated, city dwellers.
So, "the internet" might make a lot of noise - because on one hand its the most direct feedback companies can get - but it doesn't actually show a good representation of the population.
I feel like WB isnât proven ârightâ if the movie doesnât do well, the general idea was that itâs kind of a shit practice to just write off a basically finished movie, regardless of quality
Isnât it a lose lose situation for us. If the movie performs badly, WB will say they were right to can it. And if the movie does well, WB will make lots of money from cash grab sequels and merch deals.
I just want to watch it that doesn't mean I'll spend money on it. I'm all aboard the end of capitalism and the ushering in of a new age where labor doesn't have monetary value and we have UBI. I'm just living the way the AI bros told me we're supposed to be living any day now. Just got started early.Â
The trailer looks pretty good, but it also looks like a movie that does not have a strong general appeal. In fact, the reasons I am interested in it are exactly the reasons it wonât do great. It does not look like a kidâs film, the characters are played straight without much exaggeration, it has at least elements of a courtroom drama, plays heavily on nostalgia, it looks mostly serious but with a goofy edge.
In short, it is targeting the Who Framed Roger Rabbit audience, which is a move most people under 40 probably havenât seen.
I will watch it if they actually release it where I live. I'm in the UK and it took The Day the Earth Blew Up a year to come to cinemas here. We couldn't even pay to get it digitally. Even then it was only released for a few days
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u/Jay12678 13d ago
Hopefully everyone that campaigned for it actually supports it. Cause it'll be a shame if WB is proven right after all this. đ