Which is smart. They shouldn't try to out-Star Wars Star Wars this year.
Beyond's budget is over $200 million...?
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Which is smart. They shouldn't try to out-Star Wars Star Wars this year.
Yeah, it's fun to run with the 200 million figure because the haters on FB have been low-balling the budget, but I imagine it's an overstatement. Production's probably north of 150 million, though.
Publicity/promotion costs aren't calculated as part of the production budget. They're additional.
Publicity/promotion costs aren't calculated as part of the production budget. They're additional.
Shallow has nothing to do with it. He is a bankable director.
I remember about a decade ago maybe less (but way before JJ Trek was announced) Bryan Singer was interviewed and at one point he was talking Trek and the interviewer joked about him directing a $200m Trek movie and they both kind of laughed at how implausible a 200m Trek movie sounded..
I'm not sure we had a whole lot of $200 million dollar movies in 2005. Landscape has changed.
He was a director on a bankable franchise.
I doubt anyone is gonna go see STB just because it's a "Justin Lin movie".
You would be mistaken, then. I know people whose interest has only been piqued when I mentioned Lin.
People know who directed the F&F movies - in fact, I feel a little sorry for James Wan, because I've talked to folks who assume that Lin directed Furious 7 so closely is he associated with that franchice.
People know who directed the F&F movies - in fact, I feel a little sorry for James Wan, because I've talked to folks who assume that Lin directed Furious 7 so closely is he associated with that franchice.
I do agree with that.
He is one of the few Asian American directors helming a big franchise, so there are some Asian Americans who are interested in that, individuals who may also be Trek fans. I recall Lin was on the list for the Terminator sequel that eventually became the mediocre Terminator: Genysis.
*cue "Genesis!" alien from Star Trek 3*
And this time they needed, like, 600 of them.
Beyond could easily struggle to get to $400m worldwide if it can't get a widespread Chinese release.
A budget of $200m? I hope the suits at Paramount have stocked up on nappies.
A budget of $200m? I hope the suits at Paramount have stocked up on nappies.
Yes, lots of unrealistic bad things would be bad if they were to happen.
Also bad for the box office, if Los Angeles gets attacked by Brazil. It won't happen, but it will be bad. I hope Paramount has a contingency plan for this unlikely event.
Honestly I'm having a harder time seeing how it could not make money.
Obviously they're just pouring millions of dollars into a giant shredder and plan on locking the doors to every theater showing it when it opens.
Remember, however, that the $200 million-plus figure is the speculation of one man (Jamal Al Sharif,of the Dubai Film and Television Commission) not directly connected with the production, and nothing more than that.
By virtue of his position, he may indeed have a very good feel for how portions of movie budgets relate to the whole, but that figure still amounts to an educated guess, based on an arcanely-arrived-at number which is supposed to represent the cost of one week's location shooting in Dubai. Though we may never know for sure, I suspect the truth is that the production budget remains much closer to the $170 million figure* we've heard since many months ago, and that the final cost will likely come in under that number.
Might I be mistaken about that? Sure, I might, but we'll all have to wait to find out. In the interim, I promise not to make any obvious and heavy-handed comments concerning anyone's need for a large supply of... erm, nappies**.
* representing a reduction of $20 million from the previous movie's budget
** (Nappies. "A poop joke, sir?"
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What'll happen to the film if just before final ADR the entire cast and crew are eaten by goats? It's just a deeper and deeper hole Paramount is making for itself, here.
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