deadderek wrote: ↑April 21st, 2021, 12:57 am Retail for a new 4k UHD/Blu-Ray/Digital is what $25? My friends and I go to the movie in groups so you figure: 6 adults at $12 each for evening tickets. $72. Or 1 one us buys the disc and Sony gets $25.
Even if you take into account the studio and theater split tickets at 50% each...
Well, that's not exactly right, because the retailer buys the disc for $X and then sells it for $25, and keeps the difference. There's also probably distribution and manufacturing fees to consider.
Also, the rate of split between studio and theater changes. Opening weekend, the studio gets the bulk. I don't have numbers in front of me, but I know that, for example, the rate for a Disney movie is very high and unfavorable to the theater. For all I know it could be a 90-10 split. The longer the film stays in theaters, the better the split gets for the theater. This is why studios care so much about opening weekend -- that's when they make the most money.
Alphagaia wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2021, 12:14 amThe clip I saw felt heavily edited and Bill saying those exact words was a bit to perfect to say at that point, but that's to be expected from a promotion reel. I have no doubt they watched it five times and used his best reaction, instead of his first reaction.
I dunno. Bill may be in a new, less-cynical era where he's willing to return to
Ghostbusters and be kind to everyone involved, but the idea of him re-recording his reaction a bunch of times feels like a type of crassness that he wouldn't go for even now. He still has that fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants spontaneity that he's so known for. I expect his reaction is basically genuine...and I also doubt he's thought about the clip since he watched it.
mrmichaelt wrote: ↑April 24th, 2021, 1:07 amJust so we're all on the same page. The transfer of rights, old contracts as you put it, and the formation of Ghost Corps happened before ATC was greenlit. The Corps was mainly created to expand the brand and make ATC BUT not created to bypass the old contract.
Ivan Reitman: "Prior to this movie getting green-lit, I made a deal on our behalf in which the creators would be enriched for the rest of our lives, and for the rest of our children's lives, and transferred the rights to Columbia. Danny and I set up a company called Ghost Corps, whose idea was not only to make this film, the Paul Feig movie, but to use the Ghostbusters ideas and expand it and find out what else it could do to help Columbia and Sony in the future."
https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/ivan-re ... ay-qa.html
I'm not sure how this quote disproves that assertion. We know the contract existed, and also that Sony did not successfully greenlight a new
Ghostbusters movie until after Ghost Corps was formed. Ivan doesn't mention that contract at all (nor would I really expect him to in a general interview).
Beyond that, I'm not sure why it would be something that needed to be disproven. I think the idea that Ghost Corps was a trade-off for breaking the contract and the things Ivan says in the quote are both true. Seems like a win-win for both Sony and Ivan/Dan, with the studio getting more freedom in making more movies, Ivan and Dan getting what they want from their intellectual property, and both of them getting a hub from which to orchestrate and supervise one of Sony's biggest merch movers. I would view the breaking of the contract with Ghost Corps as a uniformly positive development, and something that I would hope is true, because everyone got what they wanted.
timeware wrote: ↑April 26th, 2021, 1:24 am We have a statement saying November in a movie theater. It doesn't say "only."
The movie date has been changed a couple of times arleady. You don't think they have the wait untill the last minute stance to say something about dual release? Were living in crazy times right now, anything can change at a moments notice. It has already.
Worth noting that so far during the pandemic, Sony has done zero dual releases.
Kingpin wrote: ↑April 27th, 2021, 5:11 amTheLegendOfMart wrote: ↑April 27th, 2021, 12:55 amPeople hated ATC so they are reluctant to see it.
Have you got an article or a website citing that? I've not gotten that impression that the general public is hesitant to see Afterlife due to bad experiences with Answer the Call.
Obviously, I'm pro-
Ghostbusters (2016), but I think it's fair to say that the reboot was a real lightning rod for a drawn-out controversy, and regardless of my own opinion, the consensus was that the film ended up not being worth all the arguing and troll wars the movie incited. I think there is a fair amount of general audience or non-fan skepticism toward
Afterlife for various reasons: 1) it's the second attempt in just four -- err, five years to relaunch the series, which itself is 2) a series that many do not necessarily feel needed to be a series, given that many view the sequel and the reboot as not up to the standard of the original; 3) as a long-gap sequel ala
Dark Fate; 4) as a either a rebuke of the feminist representation of the reboot or just something that encourages the "wrong" kind of fans (ala WB caving to The Snyder Cut)... You can even get into more niche and granular stuff, such as the notion of Jason Reitman as a highly-acclaimed but commercially struggling filmmaker who was gifted a massive summer IP through what many view as nepotism. (Note that these are all just meant to be examples of things that I've heard people saying, and none of them are something I personally feel.
With or without the pandemic, I feel like
Afterlife has a bit of an uphill battle when it comes to winning over the audience. (Accurate or not, the "Baby Yoda" accusations with the Stay-Puft clip is, IMO, not a great step in the right direction.)
gbraider82 wrote: ↑April 27th, 2021, 3:36 pmDo you guys have any thoughts as how the ending might play out? I shared it once and I’ll share it again...Egon will now be a ghost...
I still think the only version of Egon as a ghost I would want to see is one where there is no visual representation of him as a ghost. I agree that we should avoid calling back to crossing the streams, and Oscar showing up has always felt like a hacky sequel idea to me.