Re:Hollywood’s Great Leap Backward on Free Expression
by anon1m0us on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:40PM
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They probably didn't want to waste ad money on a movie they knew was gonna flop. The money they expected to make with this wasn't from sales at the box office, but rather from financial contributions from China.
Same thing happens in real estate. Americans work with Chinese investors on a real estate deal. Buy lots of land. Promise to build lots of houses. Pay themselves 6 or 7 figures per year to work on the project. Ultimately, however, nothing sells. Few or no homes are built and the Chinese investors are left with nothing, while the Americans putting the deal together are millions richer for it.
Re:Hollywood’s Great Leap Backward on Free Expression
by friedman23 on Sunday September 15, 2019 @02:36PM
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> I don't recall ever hearing anything about this movie before reading that article
I watch a lot of movies and I heard about this movie all the time. There was a trailer for it in every pre movie trailer showing.
OK, I don't go the the movies a lot [1] so am generally unaware of much of what is in theaters, but I do watch a lot of TV live (as opposed to on DVR) on channels that have ads and on which studios run lots of ads for the movies that they expect to be big, so I'm usually aware of what is opening that the studios are expecting to be big.
I don't recall ever hearing anything about this movie before reading that article. Was there something anemic about their advertising in the US? Or were the ads just so forgettable that I did see them but completely ignored or forgot them?
[1] My complete movie theater history for the last 20 years: American Beauty, Gladiator, second two Matrix movies, the three Lord of the Rings movies, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Wild Wild West (by accident...was trying for Star Wars and went into the wrong theater), How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World, and Avengers: Endgame.