AVATAR FLOPPEDNO CULTURAL IMPACTHE'S RUNNING OUT OF MONEYHE'S A HACK
>>217372993>reused interview from december
I can take a stab at the "why" but will preface that I'm just speculating.The Avatar movies have been really profitable but they're also very expensive. Avatar 3 reportedly cost $350-400m to produce and that number doesn't include marketing costs. Studios also split the box office gross with theaters. The exact % varies based on a number of factors but general rule of thumb has been studios take 50% or slightly more of the gross.So with those things in mind, it likely is concerning to the studio that Avatar 3 is tracking to make considerably less than the first two. Current projections from folks over at r/boxoffice are around $1.5B. That's still a lot of money but also would be a drop of $800m from what the second movie made. And if the fourth movie continues the downward trajectory with the same budget as Avatar 3, the movie could quickly go from profitable and worth making to break-even or losing money.Studios (companies in general, really) aren't making decisions based on what has already happened. They are trying to use data and intuition to forecast what will happen and make decisions according to that.The other thing to keep in mind is that studios (and again, companies in general) are trying to maintain and grow their bottom line. Investing $400-500m in a project and having it miss on expectations is not a good situation, even if that movie still breaks even or turns a small profit. Especially for public companies that have to regularly report on how they are performing against expectations and their own projections.
>>217373058pajeet
>>217372993Make the Battle Angel Alita sequels god dammit
>>217373032Avatar 3 made barely half of what 2 made
>>217372993The diminishing returns are obvious. Way of Water did not recapture the magic of the first one and most people didn't care anymore to see the new one. The plot is convoluted, the runtimes are absurd, and the characters aren't memorable. On top of that, non-woke and non-furfag audience members are rooting for Quaritch and the humans because the Na'vi are extremely cringe and nigger coded, but these movies go out of their way to make the humans absurdly evil and cruel so you are punished for watching it and not wanting to see the lame alien tribals win. It's a franchise with no legitimate fanbase or longevity and costs an unsustainable amount of money to produce.
>>217372993Maybe he should try making a good movie for once.
it's over
>>217373977not going to break 500 milly domestically
>>217372993It came out at Christmas during yet another ‘cost of living crisis’. Ofcourse it flopped.
>>217373831The thing about the first one was that it was basically FernGully and even stupider that Jake basically forgot his mission, to negotiate with the natives so they could mine the unobtanium (yes, they literally called it that) without harming the tree. Jake not only forgot his mission but he betrayed his comrades, and he's supposed to be the hero. But it was visually impressive and a lot of people fell for that alone.
>>217372993The Avatar movies are basically animated movies so they're easy to just AI generate.
>>217374616Gonna need to reserve another 20 year's worth of RAM to generate 8K video in our lifetime
>>21737299371 years old men should retire.>>217373058They are expensive mostly Becuase he is being carried by teams of sub directors (he doesn’t call them directors) but they basically carry the film production for the senior citizen.So it Basiccly has 5 production teams instead of one
>>217373831Way of the water is basically a different kind of film.A ton of people of didn’t even like the first one liked way of water more, for a different audience
>>217374262>the guy who helped the natives from invasion was... le bad guy all along!Very subversive from you.
Feminist filmmaker. Stronk woman myth obsession.
>>217373831>The plot is convoluted,Funny how Avatar is "space Pocahontas" but at the same time "convoluted">the runtimes are absurdZoomer.>and the characters aren't memorable. Yet you remember Quadritch.>On top of that, non-woke and non-furfag audience members are rooting for Quaritch and the humansThese people don't watch movies.>It's a franchise with no legitimate fanbase or longevity and costs an unsustainable amount of money to produceIt also makes a fuckton of money. Disney is just building a new park.
>>217373831> Na'vi are …. nigger codedYeah, this isn’t talked about
>>217373783>>217373058And Avatar 4 will happen.
