I'm not sure if that millennial thing was a crack at me or not. I'm not a millennial. I am, however, a former professional statistician.
Originally posted by kintnerboy
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$180m worldwide would have probably been fine if the movie had cost $70m. I mean, not a home-run, but whatever, a reasonably try that landed somewhere in the ballpark of okay. That's not a movie that needs to be that expensive. We're not talking about Pacific Rim, here (you can't make that movie at half its budget).
THere's a reason the just-announced Ocean's 8 movie has a budget around $70m.
I don't know anyone who is in love with the idea of branding properties like this - I'd much rather see an original, female-ensemble Ghostbusters-LIKE movie - but for the past few years, very few people have felt they could get anything made without that kind of built-in awareness. So we're going to be stuck like this until audiences start showing up for original material.
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