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It needs $470 Million to break even. $272 Million after 10 days is not very likely to get it there.

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Didn't have much hope for Karate Kid.

Sounds like a blip. You know if they broke the bank on that budget or not? I can't even be arsed to look it up, honestly.

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Quiet night around here. So I did look it up since Bruce didn't have it.

Variety said that it was $45 Million and that they expect it to make a profit due to the "modest" budget. To be fair to them, sadly, $45 Million does appear to be pretty modest in 2025, considering we've had 2 horror movies this year that were $50 Million and $90 Million already.

Worldwide Gross is just a few bucks over $46 Million, so unless anything crazy happens like a complete loss of interest by Weekend 2, I concur with their statement.

Unless marketing for this was a low-budget affair, which I honestly wouldn't know because we're 5 months into 2025 and I have yet to see a single commercial, it's probably not going to make all that much in the end, but it shouldn't lose any money for Sony or Columbia Pictures.

As time passes and I don't obsess over these movies any longer, I couldn't say with absolute certainty now, but I can't think of a single example where a movie didn't make money as long as it recouped at least 100% of the production budget worldwide after the first weekend. This one passed that test, even if just by only $1 Million.

It needs $112.5 Million to break even at RoT2.5x. If it doesn't buck the usual trend, it should be sitting somewhere just under $100 Million by the end of next weekend, and it will be making money, likely during or right before the start of Weekend 3. But by weekend 4 we're already looking at Domestic number of maybe $2 or $3 Million tops.

But hey... $30-$40 Million in profit off of a $45 Million investment ain't half bad. If I had a money printing machine where I could nearly double my money, I'd be using it every chance I had.

This is actually a real good example of what the studios need to get back to.

Make 8 of these movies instead of 1 Mission Impossible movie. Not only aren't you wasting all your budget on some high-priced prima-donna that most American's can't stand to look at anymore*, but you'd be putting 8 times as many actual working people to work and/or keeping those people 8 times as gainfully employed than if they were only making the one movie.

Your bonus is if you lose on one or two of them, you aren't betting the farm on them and you can always luck into one or two of those eight movies being a mega-hit that brings in a ton of cash.

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Everybody needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP about Iran for a few weeks and see what happens.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
chaos in his own ways but Trump seems very predictable now

Another failed Prediction from 6ixString, you Snoozed
and now you lose

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In 90 days, Blue Origin will beat SpaceX to the Moon! But there's a big problem as well!

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I'm assuming that the problem is nobody gives a shit?

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Pedophile Pete has only been right about one prediction in the last 10 years and that was the failure of coal burning cars.

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Demon Slayer anime just topped $600 Million.

It's less than $12 Million behind Superman, and Superman is no longer in theaters.

It will gross more than any Superhero flick from Marvel or DC in 2025.

All on a $20 Million budget, which was less than 1/11th of what Superman cost.

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some Republicans some GOP and RINO and Maga predicted winners...

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6ixString keeps posting AI political Slop videos thinking they are real?

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6ixString keeps posting AI political Slop videos thinking they are real?

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You had almost a month to come up with one and still no luck, huh?

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6IXSTRING
I dont know dude a lot of your news guys sources were posting pics and AI vids of Iranians happily protesting and Venezuela also, the lighting and shadows all wrong some of the people had 7 or 8 fingers on one hand in those viral twitter facebook feeds, bots posting more AI bot stuff and then shared across 'Maga' media
Americans themselves getting deported to some shithole prison in Latin America or Africa because someone reported them for being critical of Israel...just another form of your papers please and killing speech be it from the Left or the Right

Trump himself was re-tweeting these Loony talking heads with their fake AI news

and you cheering an Israeli dropping Bombs on an Iranian Woman During Live Tv...that was pretty damn shameless

I dont like the crap a Venezuela dictator does
and you know what I dont like Iran either
I have no Love for those stupid Mohammedan terrorists nor Iranians but I try to remove bias and hold on to a little bit of empathy even if the sandbox is full of scumbag people

the sad thing is you've changed,
you have become the thing you always disliked the mindless religion type almost going full Q-Anon with the Magtard Zionist mobs, cheering the next war like a NeoCon or Leftwing Authoritarian demanding the next war and next people revolution

I seen his social media fornt page recent and it still had a pinned tweet Venezuelans doing the Trump YMCA dance!...bomb more and take over the government type stuff

some crowds were real but other crowds seemed to be getting debunked by other journalists...some people are born 'freaks' but when you get a lot of people in a crowd with 7 or 8 fingers on one hand it just doesnt look real.

I'm not going to bother looking for your posts from that time ago,
these firefly community message boards have been offline since the 13th
you constantly link to and quote crap Trump said
so if you want you can go back into waybackmachine, megalodon, webcite, archive dot org and see all the crazy shit Trump was posting on twitter or truthsocial or from 'The Desk of Donald Trump' that day, including feeds of AI journalism and their fake arty crowds Artificial Intelligence bot posts with fake video art of people

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Footage posted by Trump on Truth Social is actually from a July 2024 anti-Maduro protest

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The same video has been reposted by right-wing influencer and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on X, who alleged to his audience of 4.4 million followers it was to celebrate “the ouster of Communist dictator Nicolas Maduro”. It has been viewed 2.2 million times.

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