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Nem said:
Lawlight said:

Records may be smashed (though Avatar's and Titanic's are still unbeaten) but so are the production and marketing budgets. The margins on film studios aren't as big as you'd think.

If it wasnt, they wouldn't be making multiple movies on the same cinematic universes every year. Everyone is jumping in on that. Even Universal.

If the movie is worth watching, people will pay to see it. I really don't agree that people seeing a movie in poor quality online = a missed sale. I think it wouldn't be a sale either way. So, i doubt that's affecting anyone majorly, but is no doubt a great excuse for failure.

I'll try finding the source but i remember reading a while back that 2015 broke records for box office revenue but despite having some huge hits, 2015 had one of the lowest box office attendances in the last 15 years.

It's sort of like the AAA gaming market, less overall titles but a few mega hits resulting in only a few studios really doing great.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

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KLXVER said:
Lawlight said:

The Barbie movie with Amy Schumer will save them.

I swear that woman hypnotize people to make them think shes funny. Shes the worst comedian Ive ever seen.

i guarantee she has maybe another year or two of popularity before she starts declining and in a few years she will be most known for some mediocre sitcom with another washed-up costar.



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ManUtdFan said:

 

small44 said:
Stop making smartphones Sony.

Change your sig mate, it's embarrassing.

What this have to do with the topic and my post?



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

Nem said:
Lawlight said:

Dude, why are you bringing up cinematic universes? As if mentioning that makes my post invalid. Margins on movies are low. They use them to sell merchandise mostly. Universal made a profit of $1.2B in FY 2015 despite have 3 movies in the billion dollar club.

In any case, I'm not sure what you are arguing.

I'm arguing that no one of note is struggling with these imaginary lost sales of people watching stuff online for free.

Who made that point in the first place? You're arguing against a point you brought up.



zorg1000 said:
Nem said:

If it wasnt, they wouldn't be making multiple movies on the same cinematic universes every year. Everyone is jumping in on that. Even Universal.

If the movie is worth watching, people will pay to see it. I really don't agree that people seeing a movie in poor quality online = a missed sale. I think it wouldn't be a sale either way. So, i doubt that's affecting anyone majorly, but is no doubt a great excuse for failure.

I'll try finding the source but i remember reading a while back that 2015 broke records for box office revenue but despite having some huge hits, 2015 had one of the lowest box office attendances in the last 15 years.

It's sort of like the AAA gaming market, less overall titles but a few mega hits resulting in only a few studios really doing great.

This is true - lowest are spiraling downwards even when the population is increasing.



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A little sad, I like some of their movies.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

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Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

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Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."