The official budget for this film is $350 million, but there's no way that's accurate. James Cameron is on record saying it needs to make $2 billion to break even. Even factoring an estimated $200 million marketing campaign, the film's true production budget is probably in the range of $700-800 million.
For what its worth, I saw that further clarified that the "$2B to break even" state was apparently including some of the production cost of the 3rd movie since some assets are going to be reused.
Either way, this does not bode well if the opening weekend is underperforming. He better make damn sure there is good word of mouth, because that has been the make or break for ever movie. Marvel movies get a good opening, then bad word of mouth kills following weekends. Top Gun had an ok opening, then killed it for months afterword due to good word of mouth.
Fair enough. And I will say that I have been hearing good word of mouth going around for it about how "Its a good, fun, dumb, popcorn movie", so it may well sell based on that alone.
Just pointing out that its a not great start, and in the past few years word of mouth has been the make or break of movies.
It's not. I watched it last night (Pirated, no way am I shilling out money for Hollyweird), and it's crap. For al ltheir claims of diversity and shit, I didn't see one coloured face among the bad guys, there was a woman general but everyone else was either white or blue, and the blue folk were endlessly howling or shouting and were considered holier than thou. Even the storyline just just the sound of Cameron huffing his own farts (The movie equivalent of a Hideo Kojima game tbh)
The official budget for this film is $350 million, but there's no way that's accurate. James Cameron is on record saying it needs to make $2 billion to break even. Even factoring an estimated $200 million marketing campaign, the film's true production budget is probably in the range of $700-800 million.
For what its worth, I saw that further clarified that the "$2B to break even" state was apparently including some of the production cost of the 3rd movie since some assets are going to be reused.
Either way, this does not bode well if the opening weekend is underperforming. He better make damn sure there is good word of mouth, because that has been the make or break for ever movie. Marvel movies get a good opening, then bad word of mouth kills following weekends. Top Gun had an ok opening, then killed it for months afterword due to good word of mouth.
Fair enough. And I will say that I have been hearing good word of mouth going around for it about how "Its a good, fun, dumb, popcorn movie", so it may well sell based on that alone.
Just pointing out that its a not great start, and in the past few years word of mouth has been the make or break of movies.
It's not. I watched it last night (Pirated, no way am I shilling out money for Hollyweird), and it's crap. For al ltheir claims of diversity and shit, I didn't see one coloured face among the bad guys, there was a woman general but everyone else was either white or blue, and the blue folk were endlessly howling or shouting and were considered holier than thou. Even the storyline just just the sound of Cameron huffing his own farts (The movie equivalent of a Hideo Kojima game tbh)