>Budget: $600,000–750,000>Box office: $522 millionHow?
>Literally who cast>Minimal crew>Viral and word of mouth marketingAs shrimple as that
Good movie
>>223676441it's pretty good
word of mouth marketing I would say I know I only saw it because of r/horror unironically
>>223676441They cast and crew were hired based on talent and skills instead of fulfilling a DEI quota.
Even the movie poster looks nicesome movies have it all
accidentally tapped into the 10% of twitter users responsible for >80% of posts and they ran wild with it
>>223676472>Cast and crew probably lived on ramen, slept in one house and took time off their day jobs to make it happen. A level of commitment the average anon could never achieve.
>>223676441i used to be upset about obession threadsbut then i realized i hate them because i couldn't accept something.. and that was that i want to BE Inde!!
>>223676441here's how
>>223676441Kino in a sea of slop.Too bad most of those millies are probably going to the distributor after they bought the rights.
>>223676518Wasn't accidental. It was all meticulously manufactured for zoomers. The whole movie's shot with center framing to tailor to tiktoks and instashits.That's why I refuse to see it
>>223676441well it is pretty good
>>223676481>>223676476Have the people who say Obsession is good ever actually watched Obsession?
I didn't like it.Unrelatable main character.Plot wasn't that interesting and story progression was all over the place.Lots of pointless screaming and insanity.
>>223676588It's a pile of terribly acted dogshit with all of its themes lifted directly from current social media trends. The protags name is literal Bear
>>223676525I doubt it was that bad, the pre-planning is likely what carried it hard. They shot it in under a month (26 days) including reshoots.Every day we inch closer to the realization that most people in the industry, regardless of their background and experience, don't actually have any fucking idea what they're doing.
>Barker refused a budget of $2,000,000 that came at the cost of rewriting the screenplay for Bear to be a hero
>>223676714based
>>223676441>>Box office: $522 million>>Movie; absolute fucking dogshitHow?
>>223676441It's almost like if you make a halfway decent film on a tiny budget it's way easier to be successful. If this had been a major studio film that cost 300 million, then that box office would have made it a dismal failure.Solid films with tiny budgets is the only thing that can save Hollywood.
>>223676761It’s great. You are just an incel faggot and/or have shit taste.
You people are all idiots down playing this movie. Kind of success this movie had is unheard of. The only budget ass movie I can think of that had similar success is Blair Witch and that was over 30 years ago.
>>223676441>How?the spicy latina
>>223676441>write film that's actually good and interesting>don't rely on boomers to get it made>don't become forced to include boomer plot tropes>script remains relatable to the general public instead of hollywood's retarded bastardisation of what it thinks life is like for young people>hire good, unknown actors for very little money (no boomer fucks forcing you to increase the budget to hire nepo retard #36)>shoot film>profitYes. It's that simple. Films in general could be so much better without boomer oversight ruining everything.
>>223676588Distributor took a risk and spent a fair amount of money marketing it.Despite that, Barker still made several million upfront. And I'm pretty sure he still owns the film, so will get lifetime residuals from it.
>>223676542>>223676555She farts a lot.
>>223676685that's nothing, end of watch was shot in 22 days and is one of the cop movies of all time
>>223677210>You people are all idiots down playing this movieIt's just salty boomers mad that they were outplayed by a kid who refused to kiss the ring (and contrarian idiots who hate anything that's popular)
>>223677160>it's greatIt's one of the worst looking movies of the year. You just latched onto it to spam about your failed romantic life. You didn't really watch it, while scenes were going on, you were just thinking about your own embarrassments.Retards here will mock AI for making center-focused clips and then they go and suck off Obsession. Unvelieavable.
who pocketed the 500 million ????WHOOOOOO
>>223677304>Muh center focusSTFU you a sperg. The movie had no distributor when it was made. Had it not picked up one at Toronto Film Festival it would’ve been dumped onto YouTube.
>>223677265>And I'm pretty sure he still owns the filmHe doesn't, but the deal does give him points on the backend.>>223677313It's complicated.Ai tells me Curry earned maybe around $6m in total before home release.Around half of the $500m goes to the cinemas themselves. The initial financiers got paid and then some. And focus and universal got a hefty portion. Plus there's all the additional money you need to subtract from it for marketing/press shit.So no one got a huge windfall. But everyone came out pretty happy
>>223676637YeahI saw it opening weekend.Easily the best film of the year.I knew IMMEDIATELY that it would get popular and this board would hate it.
How does that movie cost 600k to make? Saddens me how expensive films are these days
>>223677631Salaries are probably half of it
>>223677538Marketing wasn’t that much. Highest reported is 10 million which is jackshit. Today marketing budgets are insane because of all the shit fighting for people’s attention. The Odyssey had 125 million marketing budget. So didSupergirl
>>223677631You for real? Any idea amount of people work on a movie, even a small movie. Along with extras, scene locations. And it was in LA! I can’t believe they did it for that cheap
>>223677665No, but the marketing budget still comes out of the profit (after the theatres take their cut).And even a $5m marketing budget would still be more than 6 times the film's actual production budget.
>>22367773510 million form 500 mill is nothing. And theaters don’t take exactly half. More like 35-40%. Universal made a killing offthis movie and why producers for Obsession are suing haha
>>223677857>Universal made a killing off this movieThey certainly made a healthy profit, no argument there. It's a lot less than I think most people would assume though (pretty sure it will be a lot less than $200m profit total - definitely not bad, don't get me wrong)>producers for Obsession are suingOne producer is suing. And she isn't suing Universal. She's suing the other producers/original production company for cutting her out of the deal and downplaying her involvement.
>>223676441horror movies are a box office cheat code
>>223677377You need a distributor to tell you that not every scene has to look like TickTock clip?
>>223676441>low budget>tik tok friendly themespretty obvious
>>223678386They filmed it thinking it likely wouldn’t get a distribution and be put on Youtube like Barker’s other stuff. Why the movie had no real budget
>>223676441It’s a #manbad flick for chicks that was marketed aggressively on social media It could’ve been made on a $6,000 budget and it still would’ve made bank
>vile, ugly, misogynistic and misandrist film which poops on the Universal brandsurely this will save cinema
>>223678543Idiot. Why didn’t Companion and endless other “manbad” movies have similar success? You act like this movie success is so easy and common. Tell me all the moves that made 500 times it’s budget
>>223676516Lol
>>223679409Schooled that retard. Every thread there's people with 20/20 hindsight and shit takes.
Social media + smart phones are driving viral outbreaks of mass hysteria. Madness has been documented passing between people before( for example: Folie à deux). We are now seeing waves of madness sweeping thru populations by electronic means.
The new Merly Streep was in it
>>223680102Just idiots that don’t like the movie downplaying its unheard of success. There is nothing compare a movie cost less than a million making half a billion
>>223676441Jews
Someone shouldve piggybacked on the KAREN memes
It portrayed a real life phenomenon in a dishonest way that flattered the target audience (women who get the ick from incels).Simps who humored these foids hoping to get a crumb of pussy also tagged along to the theatres.The spooky shit sort of distracted everyone from the fact the movie had a problematic premise, et voila.
Bear did nothing wrong.
>>223681729> that flattered the target audience Almost 60% of the audience for Obsession was men
>>223676441women are retarded and hate men
>>223678247>horror movies are a box office cheat codeYes, look at how well Other Mommy is doing this weekend even though people say it is shit.I will always like horror movies but it is embarrassing how quality control goes out the window for them.
>>223681850Do have any idea how many horror movies come out and don’t make shitand go straight to direct streaming if at all. If Other Mommy didn’t have Jessica Chastain and 40 million marketing budget nobody would’ve even heard of it. It’ll make 25-30 million opening weekend and fall off a cliff between like almost all horror movies
>>223681832You'll have to compare it with the turnout of other movies.I'm guessing men watch more movies in general and horror especially.
>>223681994Verity 78% female, Wuthering Heights 76% female, Devil Wears Prada 2 76% female. This cops Obsession success was becuase it appealed to foids is bullshit.
>>223677242>don't become forced to include boomer plot tropes"I wish she was madly in love with me"
>>223682161Well those are straight up chick flicks.
>>223682215I'm a guy and I thought Meryl Streep was really funny in The Devil Wears Prada.
>>223682215>>223681729>It portrayed a real life phenomenon in a dishonest way that flattered the target audience (women who get the ick from incels).Been cope with this movie. That like entirely women made it success when was majority of men that liked it
name one man
>>22368183241% women turnout is insane
>>223676637it was good. i watched it.
>>223676441Cute Latinas sell
>>223682287Indy brings men to theater and why women hate her
>>223682262As a non-NPC man it was mid.I think women liked it more than men.Most men I think would find the premise problematic because wishing for someone to love you isn't a bad thing, it's an integral part of the human experience. But they begrudgingly accepted it because of the spectacle.The Sheep Detectives and The Backrooms are the best movies of the year.
>>223682323Most men aren’t chuds or incels. They saw Bear was a loser, thought Indy was hot and liked Freaky Nikki and left entertained. Every one recommended me the movie was a guy
>>223677271Who smelt itdealt it.*Verification not required.*
>>223682262Well >>223682323>because wishing for someone to love you isn't a bad thingIt's extremely stupid but I guess zoomers didn't grow up with the really obvious "don't wish for love" stories
>>223676441Cute Psycho Girl
>>223682433Bear was a normie by every metric.Had a wagie job, went to bars, parties.The bear was a chud incel is something only low IQ and women aka the target audience thought.>>223682482Wishing for someone to love you isn't a bad thing. Like 99% of chick flicks are about the female protag playing he loves me he loves me not with multiple suitors.It's just double standards at play from people who got psyopped by Aladdin because Jafar was supposed to be the chud who wished for Jasmine to love him, even though adult women probably seceetly schlick to being Jafar's sex slave.Ironically the only people who would be tricked by Obsession's problematic moral message are tweenage virgins who don't know how human sexuality works in the real world.It's animalistic, it's base, it's transactional, and it's entirely devoid of idealistic morals, kinda like how Bear's rich friend was wjen rawdogging Nikki.
>>223682613> only low IQ and women aka the target audience thought.59% of the audience was men You’re not very bright are are
>>223682683As I said before men are probably the majority audience for most movies and especially for horror movies.You'll have to compare it with the average.
>>223682613>Wishing for someone to love you isn't a bad thingIf you had what you perceived to be something that grants one single wish, and you wish for love, you are a retard.
>>223682721Love is, by many philosophers' reckonings, the meaning of life, so no.It would be more foolish to wish for money or anything else over love.Anyone over an IQ of 80 implicitly knows Nikki is the real villain of the movie for stringing Bear along and using him as an emotional crutch.
>>223676441It was a cheese burger in a sea of pickle sandwiches.
I only know this movie as the one where the girl won't block her rapist
>>223682717Do you know what target audience is? If women were the target audience for Obsession and it turned out 59% of the audience was men, they failed. Obviously the target audience for Devil Wears Parada 2 was women. Look at Supergirl. They pushed the target audience being women and the movie completely failed because men go see capeshit not women
>>223676555It was you anon! You all along, you are the obession.
>>223682968All I know is, the people who genuinely think Bear was in the wrong are wrong and the movie only manages to be relevant by threading the needle of ambiguity to the degree where both groups of people believe the movie is supporting their point of view.But in so doing the movie comes off as disingenuous.Bear is an unwitting victim, Nikki probably partly deserves her loss of autonomy, and his so-called friend is a straight up villain.
>>223682323>The Sheep DetectivesWhat's this about?
>>223683324Just watch it. It's an effortless watch.Your mom will probably like it too.
