Hollywood's bullshyt money making scheme is finally gonna backfire

[ThaRealness]

Drive was one of the best movies of 2011 and arguably one of the top 10 in the last decade. It made only 35 million at the box office. And people were suing (true story) because they felt like they were fooled into seeing the movie and there wasn't enough action in it.

'Let Me In' a great horror remake to the original 'Let the right one in', made shyt at the box office. The producers were taking a chance by trying to introduce American's to true horror movie that didn't rely on cheap scares. It basically BOMBED. Yet every stupid rehashed haunted house/possessed kids horror movie will kill at the box office.

Blame middle America for not accepting originality. The Midwest in particular. That's who Hollywood markets their movies to. The studios are in the business to make money. And American's only like the familiar. That's why we get comic book movies, a billion and 1 sequels, and a ton of needless remakes. America HATES originality.

I remember hearing about that

 

[Kalik]

Ryan Gosling is the new Keanu Reeves.... ya'll like how he acts? That mafukka is boring to watch, the "script" save him

 

[Ayo]

Ryan Gosling is the new Keanu Reeves.... ya'll like how he acts? That mafukka is boring to watch, the "script" save him

Crazy, Stupid, Love is one of the most underrated movies in the last few years. That movie doesn't work at all without Gosling.

 

[Kalik]

Crazy, Stupid, Love is one of the most underrated movies in the last few years. That movie doesn't work at all without Gosling.

Haven't seen that flick... will give it a watch and see if changes my viewpoint

 

[Ayo]

Haven't seen that flick... will give it a watch and see if changes my viewpoint

I was dragged to it thought it was a chick flick.

I was surprised

 

[Rapmastermind]

My flops in bold.

Star Trek (Already at 164 WW, won't flop, will gross more than 2009 Star Trek worldwide)
Iron Man 3 (Already at 1 billion WW thanks to The Avengers being good cause if it followed up Iron Man 2 it would not have done so well)
Great Gatsby (Headed to 130-150 and even more WW not a flop)
Hangover 3 (Headed to 175-225 and over 500 WW so won't flop)
Fast and Furious 6 (Headed too over 600 WW won't flop)
World War Z (Sorry Brad but this cost way to much to break even, flop)
After Earth (Will Smith doesn't flop in the summer. Only time was Wild Wild West. Jaden is also coming off Karate kid. M. Knight directing is the only wildcard but it should make profit)
Elysium (District 9 did well box office wise but this one I'm unsure maybe it can be a mild hit)
R.I.P.D. (This looks like a fake Men in Black/Ghostbuster. It's going to bomb)
Lone Ranger (It's going to do good worldwide cause of Johnny but I think it will disappoint domestically)
Man of Steel (Superman rebounds to success)
Monsters University (Pixar don't flop)
Pacific Rim (50/50. Will do well overseas but domestically I don't know)
Despicable Me 2 (Will be a huge hit for families)
The Wolverine (Average Hit but not huge)
Kick Ass 2 (The 1st one was a mild hit, same for this one plus the budget is low)
This is the End (Won't break out)
White House Down (Average hit)
Grown Ups 2 (1st one did pretty good, this one should hold serve)
Smurfs 2 (Smurfs don't flop)

What's happening is Hollywood is upping prices cause they are losing money in attendance. If you look at the top 10 highest grossing movies worldwide most of them came out after the year 2000. That shows you inflation are apart of these numbers. The original Star Wars Trilogy sold more tickets than The Avengers and Avatar and tons of other so called Box Office Champs. But believe it or not these Blockbusters are all these studios have to make Big money. The problem is they spend way to much on budgets.

This weekend moviegoers will have IM3, Gatsby, Into Darkness, Fast 6, Epic (animated) and The Hangover III. It's going to be a blood bath this memorial day weekend. But overall good article. Hollywood is scared of original concepts cause they aren't a sure thing. They rather go with an established property. It cost Big money to make a movie so the risk are high. This is why we see so many sequels, reboots and Books turn into movies. But original concepts do find their way to the top sometimes.

 

[FluffyCorleone]

The other problem is that so many of the blockbusters are sequels or remakes. Original ideas are suffering right now. Hopefully this will teach the studios to start taking more risks AND just accept that the internet age has changed film accessibility forever, so reacting to piracy by playing it safe with this remake/sequel blockbuster strategy is only going to make it worse for them.

Yet movies like Cloud Atlas end up flopping.

 

[Ayo]

Yet movies like Cloud Atlas end up flopping.

That's because only a small minority of American's want originality.

Middle America wants the familiar.

 

[FlyRy]

That's because only a small minority of American's want originality.

Middle America wants the familiar.

same reason survivor is still on 13 years later

 

[lamont614]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/business/as-hollywood-leans-on-blockbusters-the-flop-looms.html?hp


Seriously though they were such pieces of shyt for doing this

we got our first flop


http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/24/news/la-mn-hangover-box-office-20130524




hangover 3

 

[jwinfield]

we got our first flop


http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/24/news/la-mn-hangover-box-office-20130524




hangover 3

:turk:

I thought both FF6 and Hangover would kill.

Damn

Didn't expect Epic to do that well. But, the Hangover 3 commercials didn't make it seem that great, plus 2 left a bad taste in people's mouths.

 

[Premeditated]

we got our first flop


http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/24/news/la-mn-hangover-box-office-20130524




hangover 3

flopping season has officially started.

gah @ Fast and Furious 6 numbers. I wouldn't even be surprise if it reaches the $billion mark. It opened huge in the us too.

 

[FaTaL]

Drive was one of the best movies of 2011 and arguably one of the top 10 in the last decade. It made only 35 million at the box office. And people were suing (true story) because they felt like they were fooled into seeing the movie and there wasn't enough action in it.

'Let Me In' a great horror remake to the original 'Let the right one in', made shyt at the box office. The producers were taking a chance by trying to introduce American's to true horror movie that didn't rely on cheap scares. It basically BOMBED. Yet every stupid rehashed haunted house/possessed kids horror movie will kill at the box office.

Blame middle America for not accepting originality. The Midwest in particular. That's who Hollywood markets their movies to. The studios are in the business to make money. And Americans only like the familiar. That's why we get comic book movies, a billion and 1 sequels, and a ton of needless remakes. America HATES originality.

its too bad, that movie was really great and got me into some good 70/80s songs

 

[Lakers Offseason]

Watch all these movies fukk around and do numbers

They will

 

[mastermind]

And the economics for a blockbuster can be daunting. If a film costs $200 million to make and another $200 million to market, it needs to generate $800 million at the box office just to break even, because distributors and theater owners keep roughly half the revenue. Not that many films generate such big numbers. Last year, only seven films had worldwide grosses of more than $750 million, according to Box Office Mojo.