Re:The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
by newsbinator on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:23PM
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It seems like it wasn't marketed very much: I didn't realize it was in production, about to be released, or... released. I just happened to see it online ready to watch one day and watched 2/3rds of it before giving up.
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Re:The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
by TylerE on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:33PM
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That's actually a pretty low marketing budget.
General practice amongst the box office geeks is to assume marketing is EQUAL to the production budget for a big blockbuster.
Re:The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
by chrisseaton on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:35PM
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Yeah it seems they knew it was awful and just kind of dumped it out.
Re:The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
by k12sosse on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:38AM
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Sony said "come Wachowski's, we are going to make a new Matrix, with or without you." And then the dump truck showed up and she did what she could to, in her mind, make a product she was happy with that she knew she had to make for herself.
There's a lot of meta- to the film about the process, state of Hollywood, big cinema, giving in to retelling the same story for nostalgia bros, from what I understand. (I am not a critic or terribly deep, just observing)
I mean this clip speaks volumes. That unmistakable look of "Why'd you have to ask me that" as she is presumably self censoring thinking about what she /should/ be saying.