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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn
I get that people want this to fail. I mean, I don't get it, but I GET IT. But the movie made 1.2 billion dollars on a 200 million dollar budget. I get that that's before marketing, etc, but that's also before merch/blu ray sales, too.
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It's a huge dropoff. Dramatic and huge.
Also, keep in mind, while
Rogue One earned $1.056 billion at the box office, none of the stars were paid more than $500k for their performance and most were paid far, far less.
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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn
This movie was never going to make as much as The Force Awakens. And Disney/Lucasfilm has acknowledged that. I just don't understand how this movie is a "failure" by any conceivable rubric. It was the highest grossing film of 2017. It wasn't eve going to make TFA numbers and it didn't. But it was a staggering success.
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It was not, by any definition, a "staggering success". Fans hated it and it's dead in the water after 4 weeks. The director is being interviewed by anyone that will listen. The movie was convoluted, featured uninteresting subplots and shit on the original trilogy.
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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn
Without all the condescending remarks and down-talking, can someone please, in plane, simple language, explain to me why this is a "bomb"?
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Rogue One, the first Star Wars film outside of the Skywalker saga, earned more than $1.05 billion dollars. Disney would have been happy with $700 million worldwide but it made more than a billion. Rightly so, Disney expected The Last Jedi to earn at least $1.6 billion and have legs.
It'll limp to $1.3 billion and while that's a nice number in a vacuum, it doesn't bode well for the future of the franchise, which now includes
Solo and Episode IX.
This is not a good look for Lucasfilm, KK, RJ or Disney. They've turned off half the fan base, which will be skeptical about Solo and Episode IX (and whatever comes next).