Multiple industry articles have proclaimed the latest predator movie a big success after a “strong” opening weekend of… just $40 million domestic and $83 million global. Against a projected budget of over $100 million. With analysts saying it needs $262 million to break even.
By what metric is this a success? By straight comparison to the original, of course! The first predator only made $12 million domestic in its opening weekend!
In 1987.
As a completely new IP.
On fewer than half as many screens.
And then went on to make 80% of its total run after opening weekend.
On a budget of just $18 million.
Movie industry media are attaching Saturn V rockets to every goalpost and firing them into fucking space just to manipulate audiences into thinking this modern slop is popular and good. This shit will be lucky to lose $50 million.
Can't say it better than this tbh. As has been said many times here, I would love to see exactly what financial engineering and capital injections are happening behind the scenes to continue to pay for these movies to be made. Hollywood is slowing down, but they should have been dead by now.
The most likely explanation is that these movies are considered propaganda loss leaders. The money still needs to come from somewhere, though.
USAID, drug money laundering, CIA black budget money laundering (but I repeat myself), money printing...
Ultimately taxpayers are paying for it, somehow. If not directly, indirectly through the social ills associated with them (inflation, lives ruined by drugs, drug crime...)
70% of Hollywood movie producers are jews. Putting the pieces together is candy and levels of difficulty.