Ketraar wrote:Who the heck is Ben Shapiro? Also did you check the other Star Wars movies and how they performed in China? I guess not.
In any case, I find it amusing you are trying to convince some one to change their mind to dislike the movie or you're reaching for approval for not liking it yourself, both are odd tbh, but its OK if you didnt like it. Btw there are other movies, if you want I can give you a few suggestions.
MFG
Ketraar
Why do I post about it?
Well ask yourself the same question why do you defend it?
As for why I post about it its because its a terrible ideologically biased movie that takes everything good about Star Wars and corrupts it.
Its also a bad movie that fails on its own merits and only sold because it has the power of the Star Wars Brand .
Oh and it has caused damage in more ways than I can easily type.
If you would like me to elaborate on that then I will
clakclak wrote:Skism wrote:Ben Shapiro on The Last Jedi
In other news TLJ has failed miserably in China - it has suffered a 92% drop in screenings
Thats unprecedented.
Apparently where the power of the Star Wars Brand is less people watch it on its own merits-
And it fails on its own merits
I really don't get how people get the idea that it is a failing movie. It played in 1.27 billion US dollar. According to
boxofficemojos.
According to
Forbes it was the commercially most successful movie of 2017.
Wikipedia has the production budget listed as $200 million. That means it played in more than $1billion in earnings.
How is that failing?
If I made a $20 investment and I would get $120 back, than I would be ****** happy.
and this from Forbes too
It suffered the biggest sequel to sequel drop ever.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/fran ... ab=summary
Lets look at the numbers shall we?
Domestic:
Star Wars the Force Awakens: $936,662,225
TLJ: $594,902,305
Thats a pretty sharp drop.
And World Wide:
TFA: $2,058,662,225
TLJ: $1,268,302,078
International:
TFA Rank 4
All Time International Box Office $1,122,000,000
TLJ: Rank 29
All Time International Box Office 29 $673,399,773
Thats also a very sharp drop
And one final thing:
https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jo ... -jedi.html
Before exhibitors can begin screening "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" this December, they must first commit to a set of top-secret terms that numerous theater owners say are the most onerous they've ever seen. Disney will receive about 65% of ticket-sales revenue from the film, a new benchmark for a Hollywood studio. Disney is also requiring theaters to show the movie in their largest auditorium for at least four weeks.
So basically the drop we see earlier is even with them making unfair terms to make up the numbers.
Ignoring the terms carries an unusual penalty. If a theater violates any condition of the distribution agreement, Disney can charge it an additional 5%, bringing the studio's total haul to 70% of sales on a movie likely to gross more than $500 million at the domestic box office.
The case of "The Last Jedi" highlights a perpetual but growing tension between the business partners who bring movies to the public: studios and theaters. Negotiations between the two parties have grown pitched as Disney has become one of the most powerful studios in Hollywood and theaters have lost leverage as box-office sales fall. Box-office revenue is down 5% so far this year.
That dynamic has exhibitors across the country resigning themselves to a new condition of doing business: If you want to play Disney's blockbuster movies, get used to Disney's rules.
"They're in the most powerful position any studio has ever been in, maybe since MGM in the 1930s," said one film buyer.
Is it time to start looking at anti Trust laws?
The four-week hold in a theater's largest auditorium, meanwhile, has frustrated distribution executives at rival studios that also have major releases hitting theaters around Christmastime. Soon after the "Last Jedi" opens on Dec. 15, movies such as Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.'s " Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" and Twentieth Century Fox's "The Greatest Showman" will begin jockeying for screen times. Twentieth Century Fox's owner, 21st Century Fox Inc., and Wall Street Journal parent News Corp share common ownership.
So what we are dealing with here is in part a monopoly and an abusive one.
