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Kowan on 28 April 2016
mountaindewslave said:
Teeqoz said:

But what I'm saying is that you have to consider some of that budget was shared between the movie and the video game. Those cutscenes would've been made for the game, even if the movie wasn't made (but maybe not quite at this quality). The story etc. would also have been written for the game either way, so some costs would've been incurred either way, thus this movie will have a lower budget than what is normal. They also borrowed models and assets from Insomniac, further reducing costs.

 

Also no way it had a 80 million budget. The last full theatrical release Rainmaker Entertainment (the company behind this) made (Escape from Planet Earth) seems like it had a similar budget to this, and that had a budget of 40 million $. No way this is far above that, if at all.

you have no idea how much CGI animated films cost. Even the most terrible ones (that look awful) often can cost 10s of milions. if this were a drawn cartoon film or claymation MAYBE it would be much lower, but anyone downplaying the investment in this is not being realistic.

We're talking about an hour and a half film. the video game will use nowhere near that many cutscenes, nor is it likely that the scenes are exact duplicates. Sony will lose money on Ratchet & Clank if it performs at all based on its reviews

Lego movie cost 60m

Minions cost 74m

Those all looked way, way better than the R&C movie and like other users have mentioned, assets were shared between game and movie, and yes, the cgi cutscenes found in the game are exact duplicates of scenes in the movie. If the game proves to be a major success then they don't have to mind the performance of the movie. 



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Teeqoz on 29 April 2016
mountaindewslave said:
Teeqoz said:

But what I'm saying is that you have to consider some of that budget was shared between the movie and the video game. Those cutscenes would've been made for the game, even if the movie wasn't made (but maybe not quite at this quality). The story etc. would also have been written for the game either way, so some costs would've been incurred either way, thus this movie will have a lower budget than what is normal. They also borrowed models and assets from Insomniac, further reducing costs.

 

Also no way it had a 80 million budget. The last full theatrical release Rainmaker Entertainment (the company behind this) made (Escape from Planet Earth) seems like it had a similar budget to this, and that had a budget of 40 million $. No way this is far above that, if at all.

you have no idea how much CGI animated films cost. Even the most terrible ones (that look awful) often can cost 10s of milions. if this were a drawn cartoon film or claymation MAYBE it would be much lower, but anyone downplaying the investment in this is not being realistic.

We're talking about an hour and a half film. the video game will use nowhere near that many cutscenes, nor is it likely that the scenes are exact duplicates. Sony will lose money on Ratchet & Clank if it performs at all based on its reviews

Ratchet & Clank (PS4) has about two hours worth of cutscenes, those that are shared between the movie and the game are identical, and like I said, Ratchet & Clank did NOT have a higher budget than Escape from Planet Earth. Certainly not more than Lego: The Movie or Minions.

 

As for how Sony will lose money on it, well they literally can't. They didn't fund it, didn't distribute it, didn't make it. They licensed the IP to Rainmaker.



Snoopy on 29 April 2016

Terrible movie it would seem. Sad, because I like ratchet and clank video games.



Cabban on 29 April 2016

LMAO I knew this would bomb hard. 13% on RT with only a 67% audience score.



Acevil on 29 April 2016

One of my favorite reviewers, so have it. 



 

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KLXVER on 29 April 2016
Acevil said:

One of my favorite reviewers, so have it. 

I really got from the trailer that it was a movie for kids only. The humor should have been more like in Pixar movies. I dont think the main audience for the R&C games are kids.



DivinePaladin on 30 April 2016
mountaindewslave said:
Teeqoz said:

But what I'm saying is that you have to consider some of that budget was shared between the movie and the video game. Those cutscenes would've been made for the game, even if the movie wasn't made (but maybe not quite at this quality). The story etc. would also have been written for the game either way, so some costs would've been incurred either way, thus this movie will have a lower budget than what is normal. They also borrowed models and assets from Insomniac, further reducing costs.

 

Also no way it had a 80 million budget. The last full theatrical release Rainmaker Entertainment (the company behind this) made (Escape from Planet Earth) seems like it had a similar budget to this, and that had a budget of 40 million $. No way this is far above that, if at all.

you have no idea how much CGI animated films cost. Even the most terrible ones (that look awful) often can cost 10s of milions. if this were a drawn cartoon film or claymation MAYBE it would be much lower, but anyone downplaying the investment in this is not being realistic.

We're talking about an hour and a half film. the video game will use nowhere near that many cutscenes, nor is it likely that the scenes are exact duplicates. Sony will lose money on Ratchet & Clank if it performs at all based on its reviews

http://www.awn.com/animationworld/kevin-munroe-talks-ratchet-clank

Stop.  Just stop.  It's been confirmed SEVERAL times that the combined budget of the game and film was $40 million.  There have been other confirmations of the budget anywhere from $12-25m for the film.  This is a VERY low budget animation, and I'm sorry but your posturing isn't going to change the facts here.  Your knowledge of animation and the production costs of it may or may not be substantial, I don't know, but Rainmaker is known for doing insanely low-budget projects.

 

OT: It's still tracking at something like $10m first weekend even after critic reviews.  Most of the reviews are INSANELY over-critical and coming from those with no background of the games.  I've seen reviews saying it's bad simply because it's got guns in it, saying it's bad because it's based on a game, and even saying it's worse than Norm of the North just to be critical.  But those reviewers that are at least somewhat familiar place it at a solid 6/10, which is about what I expected after reading the novelization.  Because of this, as a wide-audience movie it won't succeed, but as a game movie it'll do fine.  I'd be more concerned about the likely-dead-in-the-water Sly movie than the performance of this one.



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KLAMarine on 30 April 2016
Teeqoz said:

Ratchet & Clank (PS4) has about two hours worth of cutscenes, those that are shared between the movie and the game are identical, and like I said, Ratchet & Clank did NOT have a higher budget than Escape from Planet Earth. Certainly not more than Lego: The Movie or Minions.

 

As for how Sony will lose money on it, well they literally can't. They didn't fund it, didn't distribute it, didn't make it. They licensed the IP to Rainmaker.

Why the heck didn't Sony make the movie!? They have movie and animation studios.



Kowan on 30 April 2016

It's currently tracking at $5.8m for it's opening weekend. If that holds true then it might struggle to reach even $15m overall, which is a travesty. I mean how could Norm of the north($6.8m op weekend) get more tickets?!



Teeqoz on 30 April 2016
KLAMarine said:
Teeqoz said:

Ratchet & Clank (PS4) has about two hours worth of cutscenes, those that are shared between the movie and the game are identical, and like I said, Ratchet & Clank did NOT have a higher budget than Escape from Planet Earth. Certainly not more than Lego: The Movie or Minions.

 

As for how Sony will lose money on it, well they literally can't. They didn't fund it, didn't distribute it, didn't make it. They licensed the IP to Rainmaker.

Why the heck didn't Sony make the movie!? They have movie and animation studios.

Because they didn't want to lose money? Makes perfect sense to me.