Movie budgets usually don’t include the marketing costs, as that information is almost never revealed to the public. But to find out how much money a film would need to be profitable, a good guess is to multiply the budget by 2.5.

For example, a $100 million film would need to make at least $250 million to break even.

But this isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, as no one can really be certain of the marketing budget.

EDIT: Typo.

I’d be interested in a breakdown of the box office for these films.

Ask and ye shall receive.

• Venom (2018)
  • Budget: $100-116 million
  • Box office: $856,085,161
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
  • Budget: $110 million
  • Box office: $506,863,592
• Morbius (2022)
  • Budget: $75-83 million
  • Box office: $1 morbillion $167,460,961
• Madame Web (2024)
  • Budget: $80 million
  • Box office: $100,498,764
• Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
  • Budget: $120 million
  • Box office: $472,812,792

So, in total, Sony spent $485-509 million on all the films, and they have made a combined $2.1 billion.

The highest grossing SSU film was the first Venom movie, and they seem to have been chasing that high ever since. Their lowest-grossing movie (so far) is Madame Web.

So it appears that over time, the SSU movies have been making less and less money with each release (with the exception of Venom 3).

Sony was transparently making minimally viable products to keep the valuable IP rights.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think the SSU movies are part of their contract with Marvel. It only applies to live-action Spider-Man films (in which Spidey is the main character).

Which means that they had no obligation to make these movies, but still chose to do so anyway. They are making these villain spin-offs because they want to, not because they have to.

Just the thought of Sony making completely unnecessary villain movies, not out of any contractual obligation, but because they genuinely believe that they can ride the coattails of the MCU…to me that’s too funny to pass up.

My guess is they just revealed that he filmed some scenes for the movie. By the time we heard about it, they already completed filming.

Filming has already wrapped.

Lima syndrome

Good movies will do better in theaters

Not necessarily.

Just being a good movie isn’t a guarantee of doing well in theaters.

From this year alone, Furiosa, The Fall Guy, and Transformers One were all great movies that got stellar reviews, and they all flopped at the box office anyway.

Bring back movie pass!

Many theater chains have their own equivalent.

Teen Titans Go.

I think most of the hate came from the people who grew up with the 2003 show, which ended abruptly, leading them to believe that TTG was meant to be a replacement.

Most of the hate has died down now, but I still think all that contempt was unwarranted.

How bout another joke, Madame Morrible?

What do you get when you mix a green-skinned loner, WITH A SOCIETY THAT TREATS HER LIKE TRASH?!

I’ll tell you what you get…

(Full review coming soon.)

REVIEW:

• I actually missed the first few minutes of the movie, but I made it just in time for the opening number and the title card. This was one of the most crowded theaters I’ve ever been to, I haven’t seen a turnout like this since Avatar: The Way of Water!
• The setting of Oz, with all of its magic and whimsy, was so…inspiring. The songs, the costumes, and in general the vibes…whatever this is called, I need more of this in my life.
• There was this part in the Emerald City sequence where these two women appeared on screen, and the audience cheered. I’m not familiar with the musical, so I’m assuming they are the actresses from the original.
• Glinda was such an unlikeable character at first, but I guess that was intentional to show her character development into the Good Witch of the North. So much Condescending Compassion towards Elphaba and pretty much everyone around her. Some of her comments got lots of laughs from the audience.

Overall? 8.5/10. My only complaint is that it felt too long, but still, highly recommended.

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I believe so. I haven’t tried that, but I don’t see any reason why that wouldn’t work.

If anything you can just combine them all into a single .mkv.

There really isn’t any good software for making your own custom Blu-rays.

If you don’t care about menus and just want to put your .mkv on a Blu-ray disc, then you can use tsMuxeR to convert your .mkv file into a Blu-ray compliant ISO or BDMV folder structure.

Keep in mind you’ll need to use the proper video and audio codecs if you want it to properly turn your video file into an ISO - it’s recommended you use AVC/H.264 for video and AC3 (lossy) or TrueHD (lossless) for audio.

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They planned to get some dinner and have some beer after a hard day’s work but needed to wash their very dirty hands first. So they went back into the bathroom and washed their hands. Well apparently that was too “gay” for the owner of the bar and they went over to the bathroom and started saying things like “I don’t know what you think you’re doing in there” and “I just need to make sure you’re not doing anything funny”.

Fellas, is it gay to practice basic personal hygiene?