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Cheebee on 02 August 2015

Wasn't the last Bond movie like the most successful ever or something? I'm pretty sure they'll be fine once the new one comes out.



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pitzy272 on 04 August 2015
Teeqoz said:
pitzy272 said:

Yeah whoever is running Sony pictures is friggin retarded. I follow movie news as well and there was no missing that Sony is having an abysmal year. I mean, when u continue to greenlight Adam Sandler movies despite them consistently being some of the most painfully bad comedies, u have to wonder what the heck is wrong with the people running SP. Pixels was supposed to be a huge hit (was predicted to make like $180 and had the director of a few of the Harry potter movies), but they put Adam Sandler in there and sure enough it bombed terribly.

Sony needs to do some firing at Sony pictures for sure. Oh, and Sony is about to be in even more trouble as they're likely losing the rights to continue releasing bond movies. MGM is predicted to switch to WB as a partner.


First of all, all these movies were greenlit by the previous chief, Amy Pascal, who has been replaced.

Second of all, they had a contract with Adam Sandler. You can't just break a contract. Luckily, Pixels was the last movie in that contract, and they in all likelyhood won't have anything to do with Sandler in the future.

So yeah, all these changes were already made, but the results won't come before the remains of the Pascal era projects are finsihed, so change will be evident in 2016 onwards. And also, Sony as a whole isn't in trouble anymore, they aren't at all relying on the Bond deal to survive.

Oh, wow. Awesome news! When was pascal fired?

For the record, I root for Sony, which is why it makes me mad when it seems they make dumb decisions that dog them into a hole. 



Dusk on 04 August 2015

That's what they get for Amazing Spiderman..



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Dusk on 04 August 2015
irstupid said:
Not going to go into quality of The Amazing Spider Man movies, but really strange that they canned it when both moives are in the top 20 highest grossing films Sony has ever made.

Apparantly they want Avengers numbers or something?


Huh? The second and third "Spider Man" movies with Jerry McGuire did far better, and rightly so IMO.

This series should be cut short. They are crap. Who the hell wouldn't notice an end zone goal post being bent then the football going into orbit from being thrown by a geek from the stands? How didn't the ball pop? Amazing Spiderman is shit.



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Zappykins on 04 August 2015
GTstation said:
Sony pics is Spidey Bond or bust, its expected. Not overly well tolerated but well expected.

True, Bond should do well, but they have to split the profits with two other companies, Sony will only get 1/3 of the profits from Spectre (or however they are spelling it.)

And they had 'After Earth' last year - which was a huge bomb.  Hard to belive this year is worst than last.



 

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irstupid on 04 August 2015
Dusk said:
irstupid said:
Not going to go into quality of The Amazing Spider Man movies, but really strange that they canned it when both moives are in the top 20 highest grossing films Sony has ever made.

Apparantly they want Avengers numbers or something?


Huh? The second and third "Spider Man" movies with Jerry McGuire did far better, and rightly so IMO.

This series should be cut short. They are crap. Who the hell wouldn't notice an end zone goal post being bent then the football going into orbit from being thrown by a geek from the stands? How didn't the ball pop? Amazing Spiderman is shit.

Not saying it isn't shit, just saying its funny to see a company axe one of their highest selling series'

Just goes to show how bad Sony Pictures is.

Looking at their list, most of their top sellers are all bad movies.



Dusk on 05 August 2015
irstupid said:
Dusk said:


Huh? The second and third "Spider Man" movies with Jerry McGuire did far better, and rightly so IMO.

This series should be cut short. They are crap. Who the hell wouldn't notice an end zone goal post being bent then the football going into orbit from being thrown by a geek from the stands? How didn't the ball pop? Amazing Spiderman is shit.

Not saying it isn't shit, just saying its funny to see a company axe one of their highest selling series'

Just goes to show how bad Sony Pictures is.

Looking at their list, most of their top sellers are all bad movies.


Well the Toby Spiderman made good money, but the Amazing Spiderman ones didn't do as well. At least according the IMDB. I'm not sure how reliable that is though.



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binary solo on 31 August 2015

James Bond should double the current US number, and it could make $1 billion globally all by itself. So they will still get to the end of the year with a respectable revenue. Being a relatively low budget year to date means this low revenue isn't as bad as it sounds. But it has been a pretty low quality year as well. The most expensive movie they made this year so far was $88 million, and the total cost of all the movies they've released this year so fat was $248 million. The US box office revenue (about 40% goes to Sony) was $326. So they recouped roughly half of their production budgets from the US market alone. Taking global revenues into account they probably roughly break even, which is disappointing, but not disastrous. They are totally reliant on Spectre for the movie division to be profitable for the year.



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