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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The basis of "Hollywood accounting" (which isn't that much different from regular accounting, just more exaggerated and glamorous) is that by reporting lower profits, the studio will have to pay less to profit participants on a film. If you've seen any inside-baseball Hollywood film where people are talking about "net points", they are talking about a percentage of the film's net profit. By lowering the net profit on the books, it means they have to pay less to people who have net points as opposed to "gross points", which means they would get a cut of the revenue before the studio deducts their costs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHL91HQzhuc
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Surely it's made it up on home video?? RandomPauI posted:Yeah. This is a gross simplification but a conglomerate which owns a movie studio can order the studio to buy their goods and services from other businesses owned by the conglomerate, even at an inflated cost. Which means of course renting a billboard is going to cost at least $2500 when the market rate is $1,500 and each peanut butter sandwich is going to cost $10. In this example I just used Fox because we were talking about Alien, but it's worth pointing out that it was released before News Corp. bought 20th Century Fox and built all the related Fox brands. So poo poo like that presumably happened (but we can't know for sure exactly what because the books are still closed) but it couldn't have been exactly that in that case.
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With net profit sharing in Hollywood being famously corrupt and impossible to enforce, why does anyone, particularly another production company, accept that as part of contracts? Like, clearly the people writing the checks have enormous power, but it's not like they're getting these people to work for free, so how does there end up being terms like this which don't get fulfilled and it seems like people should know don't get fulfilled? Or does it work out for both parties often enough and we just hear about the bad examples?
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Zogo posted:I just watched Spoorloos (MOTM from a while back) and one thing confused me. Why exactly did that one woman recommend to the sociopath to go to the local gas stations? It may have been hallucination, but I guess it was mostly the movie having the oddest sense of humor. (and yes I know I'm answering a post from 6 years ago, I was just fascinated by this scene and needed to  )
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Symbolic Butt posted:It may have been hallucination, but I guess it was mostly the movie having the oddest sense of humor. Finally. I just rewatched that segment and now it seems she's implying that she thought he was looking for some kind of tryst/fling. https://youtu.be/o1OC3yFS8zo?t=36m11s I'm reminded that I want to watch the US version.
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SubG posted:I'm not quite sure what question you're asking. By most estimates it made a net profit of somewhere around US$90M in the year following its theatrical release (about US$100M at the box office against a budget of around US$10M). At the time, Fox claimed it instead lost about US$2.5M because of advertising, distribution expenses, and miscellaneous other bullshit. The production company, Brandywine, started making noise about getting hosed out of their share of the profits. At which point Fox decided that maybe the film had actually made US$4M up to that point. At which point Brandywine sued. This bounced around for a couple of years and was eventually resolved not by Fox coming clean on the accounting but instead by putting up money for a sequel. Which ended up making about US$180M on a budget of about US$18M. At any rate, the books for Alien (1979) have never, as far as I know, been made public. I was being facetious, but this is interesting nevertheless.
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u have to look at the amount of punctuation...two question marks? no way is this guy serious
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What happened to Brendan Fraser? He was the king of comedy-actioners, anchored by the Mummy trilogy, and he's a fine physical comedian. Then the third Mummy wrapped and it was like, "Welp, no more jobs for you!" and he's been in bit parts in small pics and doing voice work since then.
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Everblight posted:What happened to Brendan Fraser? He was the king of comedy-actioners, anchored by the Mummy trilogy, and he's a fine physical comedian. Then the third Mummy wrapped and it was like, "Welp, no more jobs for you!" and he's been in bit parts in small pics and doing voice work since then. Also isn't he regarded as one of the nicest guys in the industry?
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I heard he decided to take time off from major roles to raise his kids? It's not like he could be hurting for money.
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Yeah, it always confuses me when people ask 'what happened to [person] who made a shitload of money acting and then stopped acting?'. A lot of people don't keep working once they're set for life, actors included.
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Vulpes posted:Yeah, it always confuses me when people ask 'what happened to [person] who made a shitload of money acting and then stopped acting?'. A lot of people don't keep working once they're set for life, actors included. Someone once asked Warren Buffet "How much money is enough?", to which he smiled and replied "Just a little bit more..."
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Brendan Fraser hosed his back up pretty severely when he was clearing his land after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. After he underwent surgery his doctors advised him not to do his own stunts ever again which apparently limited his roles. These last few years he's been in a few small films, did some animation voicework and was in a TV series on the History channel.
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Apr 21, 2016 08:41
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Brendan Fraser for Princess Bride reboot.
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effectual posted:Brendan Fraser for Princess Bride reboot. Just remake the movie 30 years later with the exact same cast as the original. Replace Andre the Giant with Hafthór Júlíus Björnsson.
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We'll need to replace Peter Falk too.
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Fred Savage is the new grandpa and the frame story is now set in 2053.
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Instead of being a pirate Wesley becomes a terminator
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"And 'Affirmative' was all he ever said..."
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RandomPauI posted:We'll need to replace Peter Falk too. Lewis Black!
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Secret Agent X23 posted:Lewis Black! Done deal. Pre prod time
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what are some good spy/operative movies? Ive been on a kick of them lately, I really liked the guy richie guy from UNCLE and the first hour of the Good Shepard
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atrus50 posted:what are some good spy/operative movies? Ive been on a kick of them lately, I really liked the guy richie guy from UNCLE and the first hour of the Good Shepard Tinker,Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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Munich.
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atrus50 posted:what are some good spy/operative movies? Ive been on a kick of them lately, I really liked the guy richie guy from UNCLE and the first hour of the Good Shepard Sneakers Spy Game 3 days of the condor Day of the Jackal (NOT The Jackal, but do YouTube up Jack Black getting his arm blown off in that)
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atrus50 posted:what are some good spy/operative movies? Ive been on a kick of them lately, I really liked the guy richie guy from UNCLE and the first hour of the Good Shepard Relax people, it was a joke. Movie's pretty good though.
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Parallax View.
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If you liked Man from UNCLE it's also worth checking out at least the 3rd, 4th and 5th Mission: Impossible movies. Watch the 1st one too.
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Watch the second as well, it's peak John Woo.
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There really hasn't been a bad Mission Impossible movie.
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Enos Cabell posted:There really hasn't been a bad Mission Impossible movie. The first one kinda makes no sense at the end, but yeah.
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Enos Cabell posted:There really hasn't been a bad Mission Impossible movie. The second probably isn't the worst movie John Woo ever directed, but it's definitely in the running.
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Everblight posted:The first one kinda makes no sense at the end, but yeah. I don't remember, why doesn't it make sense at the end? MI:2 is pretty loving bad. Like it's a watchable bad action movie, but it's got John Woo's worst fingerprints all over it and its treatment of the female lead makes me uncomfortable. Edit: let's just say that if you are familiar with Brandon Braga's work on Star Trek, the failings of the M:i-2 script should come as no surprise. Snak fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Apr 26, 2016 |
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Sorry to ask this but it's on my Facebook rounds lately, and I don't feel like delving back dozens of pages to see: Did Jared Leto seriously send used condoms and other gross gifts to fellow cast-mates of Suicide Squad? Can't tell if it's just clickbait material or actual, real nastiness that occurred. Hoping for the former.
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He really did it, that's right boys, Jared Leto is truly a twisted joker and it's just a matter of time before he sneaks into Kappa Beta Phi and spray-paints Ronnie The Raccoon
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I'm not really sure it's quite the spy movie you're looking for, but I liked Hopscotch quite a bit.
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They told Jared Leto to lie on the floor and he did it the absolute madman
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What was wrong with the rest of The Good Shepard?
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MI: Rogue Nation was easily my favorite of the series, and I'm not surprised at all that it was a McQuarrie at the helm - he and Cruise work really well together imo. Also, isn't the whole series kind of Tom Cruise's baby so to speak? I know he at least produces if only to be able to do his own crazy stunts.
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Snak posted:MI:2 is pretty loving bad. Like it's a watchable bad action movie, but it's got John Woo's worst fingerprints all over it and its treatment of the female lead makes me uncomfortable. The issue with M:I2 is that Woo turned in a cut that was more than three hours long, and Paramount wound up bringing in Stuart Baird to do an emergency re-edit job to trim the length and still have it make a tiny bit of sense.
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