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Originally Posted by Yeti
nunnehi,
i wish we could somehow bet on whether any of your claims about how this actually went down are true. i suspect they are completely off. and as someone else pointed out, the last paragraph is just pure aids.
Um, my claims are following the timeline of how it actually happened. Publicity stunts, insurance, etc. are pure conjecture and speculation based on industry logic. It could all be wrong, but how else do you explain them saying no way no how to a release on any platform last week (quickly walking it back day by day), to it actually being made available for money BEFORE it was originally going to be released? That's a big batch of lolHollywood b.s. They looked at the P.R. storm, and realized it would be more beneficial for them to get it out than shelf it. If the insurance wouldn't refund their money for production costs, there's no way they're just going to let $85-90 million evaporate into thin air. Compare an $85-90 million loss to a potential $60-70 million profit with all the free publicity it's had. This movie was fairly unlikely to make any real money (it making maybe $65 mil is a reasonable domestic run in its intended wide release, with no clue how foreign markets would like this movie, as This is the End performed pretty poorly in foreign markets even though this isn't similar). Now, with the publicity, it would be a joke for it to make less than $125 mil domestically (theaters/VOD), and it should make $50-60 mil foreign based on the publicity alone (though that's pure speculation as I can't imagine a U.S.A.#1 movie is going to be a huge sell overseas with that kind of subject matter).
Remember, half the exhibitors (or more) backing out would have made the movie have an absolutely sure loss, and if they just let it play through the limited theatrical run (maybe 4-5 weeks max in the types of theaters that would run it) they wouldn't be able to benefit with the VOD that they can now.
As for the other part, you mean the last paragraph was pure hilarity on the level of The Interview, right (yes, I agree it was terribly stated...lol, but I hope a point was made)? Are you someone like Gonzirra who had absolutely no plans to see the movie until it was canceled?