One Flop After Another
>>214825905MMMM we're gonna need another 90 million dollars to film a tepid car chase that would have cost five grand in the seventies.
>>214825905How much of that budget was his salary?
Can wise-anons remind me how the money laundering is supposed to work for movies that lose money at the box office? Like they write it off or something?
>>214827421It's embezzlement. It doesn't have to make money, you and the friends you hired were already paid before the movie even hit theaters.
>>214827421Just watch The Producers, anon.
>>214827421Movies make money for decades. The box office is a big part, but not the only part.
>>214827400Leo pocketed $25 millions
>>214825905I guess if you're going to a leftist protest you shouldn't wear a Van Halen t anymore
>>214827758Think of how much climate change he could fight with that money!
>>214825905Honestly, kudos to the producers who had to have known they'd lose money on this. We need more rich people who actually care about film as an art form.
>>214825905The movie was incredible and I highly recommend you watch it in theaters. >>214827850Yup, Larry Ellison's daughter has been bankrolling PTA for like a decade at this point. Bless her for it
>>214827850>>214827926
>>214827955Yes? Would you like to kvetch about woke culture, Mr. Horsey?
>>214825905>but reviews are strongpart of the publicity campaign at this point
>>214827926>The movie was incredible and I highly recommend you watch it in theaters.you don't say
>>214827421You overpay your confederates with shareholder money.
>>214827850The movie sets the story from being in Regan's America about an obsessed DEA agent to a military guy under abstract Trumps regime, they don't give a fuck about art, they give a fuck about social messaging and engineering.
>>214825905What exactly did they expect. There is nothing. about this movie that would make you feel the need to see it in theaters instead just waiting for it on steaming. Especially when almost 3 hours long. Add on previews it’s well over three hours. Nope
>>214825905>No PTA movie has grossed more than $77M worldwideGrim. Almost like he only makes movies for jews.
>>214828090Trump and his regime deserve to be targeted by filmmakers.Punch yourself in the face immediately, chudsky
>>214827421Taxes, you write it off on your taxes as a business loss
>>214827421It doesn't. The point of money laundering is to hide the origin of money, films are a terrible way to do that. Casinos are great because you can put the dirty money alongside the clean money and never know the difference.
>>214828090This was made before Trump won. They still seething about his first term?
>>214828180Yes the movie is very clearly about anti immigration, the original story was about an ex hippie who gets targeted for familial relation, this one can't spend more than 10 seconds without mentioning migrants and white supremacy.>>214828135Ok, noted will do, still doesn't change the fact that the only reason this got a big budget is purely due to the fact that they wanted a propaganda piece.
>>214825905Yeah can someone pull up the hourly steam concurrent player metrics?How about the aipac membership of the people involved?Maybe a pie chart of the podcasts family members of the cast and crew are subscribed to?China social media buzz?Where does Armond White stand on it?
Once it sweeps the Oscars it'll make a big profit
>>214825905Studios hire PTA to win awards, not to turn a profit. Licorice Pizza was MGM's first Best Picture nominee since Rain Man! The only PTA film that made money at the box office was TWBB and I suspect that was only because it was so heavily memed (le epic milkshake man)
>>214828223>still doesn't change the fact that the only reason this got a big budget is purely due to the fact that they wanted a propaganda pieceThey've been funding Anderson's films for a while despite the fact that they don't often make money, so your theory is a little flimsy.Also, art and political messaging are not mutually exclusive.
antifa: the movie is doing badly?
>>214828223Thanks for the heads up. Won’t even bother streaming it
>>214828330it's just a bad movie
>>214828160>lose money>therefore the government doesn't take your other moneymakes no sense
Funny how it’s always evil white conservatives when it comes to deportation. Reagan wanted to give spice amnesty. Bill Clinton deported more illegals then any modern president followed by Obongo who was nicknamed The Deporter and Chief
>>214828330You know we actually don't know yet. Box office numbers haven't come in>>214828268Fair enough I don't know enough about PTA personally, at least they'll expect it to bomb even worse this time especially because he re contextualizes the book into modern pro immigration slop.
>>214828425Makes perfect sense. You didn't make money. So they're not going to tax you for money you didn't make
>>214828426deporter in chief, idiot.
go woke go broke
>>214828426When it comes to leftists you can't take anything at face value. The majority of Obama deportations weren't interior removals like rn. Turnaways at the border were the majority. That's why there was no impact on crossings, making it across eliminated the risk of deportation. Titles like the deported in chief were meant to sway moderates and conservatives, same as his gay marriage stance before the flip. Leftists acknowledge the numbers under their presidents are hot air, that's why they focus on making racist Republicans the villains for deportations. As for the Reagan thing, anyone who isn't a boomer despises that faggot.
>>214828647Yeah the catch and release bullshit inflated his actual deportation numbers
I'm going to do my part and go see it just like I did with Megaopolis, Killers of the Flower Moon, Kinds of Kindness and Anora. Go watch good filmmakers.
>>214828090this movie is obviously propaganda
>>214827421Warner bros is owned by BlackrockBlackrock owns it on behalf of retail investors (you)When their investments lose money, you lose moneyBlackrock. Does. Not. Give. A. Fuck.Idk what the scam is, maybe they were bored. The only thing Im sure of is that they dont lose, no matter what. Blackrock has sort of a 'fuck you pay me' situation going on.
>>214828788you mean has beens whose egos are placated by the state in exchange for messaging
>>214828046The entire society is being monetized.Reviews used to be free, now they arent. That goes for anything you take for granted; if it doesnt generate a profit it will.
>>214828842> The only thing Im sure of is that they dont loseWB about to go to auction because of the massive debt they put themselves into. Trump and Elon cut off the gibs subsidizing this shit. Good chance Paramount will buy the WB. Paramount just got bought by Oracle who are buddies with Trump. Trump is strategically knocking off the lefty base
>>214825905It’s so weird because it seems like PTA wanted to switch it up and make an audience pleaser but he forgot that nobody likes niggers
>>214828947oracle is deep state cia survailance dystopia
>>214828949i like niggers i just hate it when they are racist (2014-???)
I thought you guys knew that it's pretty much normal that this type of movie loses money or breaks even. They make them for the awards and love of the craft first and for cash second. >Anora - 56 mil >Coda - 1.9 mil >Moonlight - 66 mil >There will be blood - 76 milGranted, they all had small budgets and turned a profit (except for Coda) but still, pretty sure they weren't expecting to do big numbers to begin with. Licorice Pizza made 33 mil. And PTA is still being given money to make movies. Also, it's PTA - he's gonna keep making movies regardless of how much money he loses. Some directors run purely on Oscar nominations and wins.
His last five scripts would not be greenlit in any universe and the box office reflects that. Am so sick of nepo babies failing up and held to a totally different standard than everyone else.
Notice how after Trump cut off all government gibs that was going out to Dem networks, WB is planning on selling and Disney all of a sudden is freaking out about not having a male audience anymore when just a year ago they could care less
>>214829023Me? There's two kinds of niggers I don't like the first are the arrogant-faced ones like the dude from Nope the dudes you just know would do some south africa shit to you if you were white and he was in powerThe second are charismafree fucking niggers like the tenet guy just blackholes of charisma that you can't even watch. Now I like me a denzel but apparently hollywood is completely out of charismatic denzel type niggas
>>214828160no retard, you can offset future profits against losses to reduce your tax liability, you cannot "write off taxes"
>>214829060anora is not for the love of any craft other than lowering standards
>>214829109yeah the ones who act like enemy npcs in an mmo are the worst because the state gives them psychopathic false victim credence with propaganda like this and you're supposed to feel like you're the racist for thinking they might act impulsively and out of unconscious wrath at the smallest perceived slighti would say this is at least 40% ive met
>>214829128thanks for letting us know that you still hate current thing
>>214829195>i wont engage with you i'll pretend you're the strawman the algorithm gives me as a lazy redherring escape route from critical thinkingmake another post so i can gather more info on how to properly insult you tonight
>>214828486You do know you launder money so you can pay taxes on it, right?
>>214829181oh yeah IRL those types scare me as much as the young thug formerly known as thugger looking ass niggas covered in tats. theyve been weaponized to all fuck and are some seriously racist cats
>>214829295they are no different than white methhead bikersthe crust of society and they know it and when you look at them they are reminded and hate it
>>214829319yeah but every white methhead biker that survives to 40 just turns into a jellyroll type dude that loves jesus there's no dismount for those wild ass blacks
>>214828788Lol.People who blindly support middle of the road thriller directors are worse than A24 fags and you always justify it as "It isn't Marvel."Fair enough just know you're watching movies with the same messages as Marvel, at least you aren't going out of political support.
>>214829343i was being wokei dont want to blame people for this though i wish we could all find a place in this world
>>214829111I didn't say write off taxes. I said you write it off on your taxes
>>214829414we all had a place man you ever see those national geographic shows? the african bushman dudes are genuinely happy. some of us are just literally in a world not made for them I'm referring to blacks in modern white societies if thugger had a bone through his nose and a nice pit fire to dance around he'd be way better off than having to have a job and that goes for alot of em
>>214829262You have to actually get money from somewhere else to launder it
>>214829517Yeah, you embezzle money with the movie, but you don't use it to launder the money.
>>214829680>be guy>have a bunch of blow and whore money >Produce movie >get one million dollars from "investors" along with actual money from investors >pay yourself one million dollars as an executive producer
>>214825905Tax write-offs only work when you are very profitable and need to pay taxes.So several profitable movies and one failure is acceptable. The lost money on that one movie just reduced the taxes payable.But when most of your movies lose money, it can't be argued to be a tax write off.It's propaganda at that point
After DeCrapio was in that gay ass global warming asteroid movie he lost any star power.
>>214827421So, back in the day>Use Australian or German tax shelter. 100% of your investment is a tax write off. If it turns a profit, you have to pay tax, if it flops, no. Hire yourself as a producer and pay yourself a huge salary, buy a nice house amd car as "props" etcI don't think any of these loopholes exist anymore. The basic gist in all the variations used to be this;Invest in company ACompany A never turns a profit, thus no taxPay yourself out of Company A's investmentsThis was also just how plain old money laundering worked - see guys like that youtuber mafia guy Francezse and MGM when the mob ran it in the 90s until they got busted. Dirty money got dumped in, they paid themselves with clean money.
>>214827421you fake the budget. you say the movie cost 200 million dollars when it only cost 50 million. there, that's 150 million dollars washed when the movie makes 150 million dollars.
>>214830610then when the movie 'loses money' cause it didn't make double the budget, you can write it off as a loss so you dont pay tax
>>214829349>and you always justify it as "It isn't Marvel." When did I say that? You are such a faggot. Get a life.
