Terminator: Dark Fate Official Thread

[TheDarceKnight]

Last I recall movies are supposed to make money no matter where they're played. What makes a movie styled for a certain country/continent?

Short answer.

China has turned into a huge market for American entertainment. They have about 1.5 billion people compared to our 300 million.

American movie studios are absolutely market-testing and putting things in movies that they think will make it more popular with a Chinese audience.

That whole thing recently with Houston Rockets owner tweeting about supporting the Hong Kong protestors and Lebron James' subsequent comments is due to all the money potential there.

So you're right. Blockbusters in particular are supposed to be able to make money everywhere, but more and more, studios are seeing the potential of the Chinese market and are making sure to (at the very least) not annoy them. They don't seem to like Star Wars for example. I've heard it's because they already have enough authoritarian regimes in their life so they don't like seeing that in their escapist movies, and I've heard others say it's because they didn't have the nostalgia of growing up with Star Wars.

Regardless, the Chinese market will be an especially important market for the media and entertainment business going forward.

EDIT: China Film Market to Eclipse U.S. Next Year: Study (Exclusive)

 

[mson]

5 Reasons Why 'Terminator: Dark Fate' Misfired at the Box Office

 

[The G.O.D II]

This whole series is convoluted and milked to death with multiple timelines and plot changes. End it now.

 

[Brehcepticon]

Get these movies outta here

Judgment Day may come soon for this franchise. After a poor opening weekend at the box office, Terminator: Dark Fate could be a $100 million bomb for Paramount, Skydance and Disney, the studios backing the big-budget blockbuster.


The film opened to a meager $29 million domestically and $102 million overseas, according to Variety, which reports that the film may not make it past the $70 million mark at the U.S. box office. In order for Dark Fate to make a profit, it would have to gross at least $450 million worldwide. For comparison, 2015’s Terminator: Genisys ended its run with $440 million worldwide. But analysts tell Variety that Dark Fate‘s final worldwide gross could be between $180 million and $200 million.

'Terminator: Dark Fate' Could Spell Judgment Day For the Franchise After Bombing at the Box Office

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Not even going to see it, I don't know what it was about the trailers that got y'all hyped - looked megatrash just like Genysis, which I also skipped.

Let this thing die.

 

[taker597]

You know where they go from here?

100% reboot and cast Dwayne The Rock Johnson as T-800 like a Hail Mary Pass to keep the franchise alive..

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

This shyt sounds worse than the new predator.

 

[theflyest]

i’d Rather a tv series going forward. These movies are over.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

i’d Rather a tv series going forward. These movies are over.

Hmm.. they might have already tried that.. I'm not sure.

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

on the new predator. Shane Black let me down. Robert Rodriguerrez did such a better movie.

 

[taker597]

on the new predator. Shane Black let me down. Robert Rodriguerrez did such a better movie.

Shane Black just ain't cut out for big budget. Iron Man 3 and Predator were atrocious

 

[Double J]

So glad this movie with it's in your face feminist agenda failed

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Shane Black just ain't cut out for big budget. Iron Man 3 and Predator were atrocious

Makes you wonder how much of it is the studios telling him what to do because he has a bunch of personal classics but they are all older like the last boy scout and first predator. Like studios fukked up Sucicide Squad and that wasn't David Ayer's vision. I am still bitter about how lame the new predator is. From the casting to the story, disgustya

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Makes you wonder how much of it is the studios telling him what to do because he has a bunch of personal classics but they are all older like the last boy scout and first predator. Like studios fukked up Sucicide Squad and that wasn't David Ayer's vision. I am still bitter about how lame the new predator is. From the casting to the story, disgustya

As bad as the new terminator is, it's not as bad as that God awful Shane Wack Predator. One of the worst movies this decade.

And they destroyed the Alien franchise. The Predator franchise and the Terminator Franchise. All within the past 3 years.

 

[taker597]

As bad as the new terminator is, it's not as bad as that God awful Shane Wack Predator. One of the worst movies this decade.

And they destroyed the Alien franchise. The Predator franchise and the Terminator Franchise. All within the past 3 years.

Shoot... What 80/90s franchise haven't been bodied in the 2000s yet?

Alien
Predator
Terminator
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park
Ghostbusters
Rambo
Men in Black

What young and aspiring filmmaker wanna work on creative bankrupt projects with studio meddling?