I have come back from the future and the results are in! The Mummy Budget - $125 m Domestic - $80m International - $330m RT - 16 Beauty and the Beast Budget - $160m Domestic - $500m International - $760m RT - 71 Power Rangers Budget - $100m Domestic - $85 International - $56 RT - 44 Transformers Budget - $217m Domestic - $130m International - $475m RT - 16 Justice league Budget - $300m Domestic - $227m International - $425m RT - 40 Spider-Man Budget - &175m Domestic - $334m International - $545m RT - 92 Jumanji Budget - $90m Domestic - $404m International - $962 RT - 76 I really hope that someone else sees this.
@@A.B994 - “You know how many Chinese people there are? Who’s gonna notice a couple missing?” - Chinese government after abducting political dissidents, putting them in concentration camps, and harvesting their organs
10:57 It's simple, really: the Chinese don't have any attachment to Star Wars (as it was blocked for decades by the Chinese government), but they do have one for Warcraft (since WoW has a huge Chinese following). It doesn't help that TFA relied on knowledge and nostalgia for the original trilogy to draw in the core fans of the franchise.
TFA is like 99% nostalgia and a margin of error for actual quality or original stuff. Whatever they did to re-edit or remake those posters (which was utterly disgraceful) they were heading for a foregone conclusion. You can't market nostalgia for a film series most people haven't seen.
At our house we watched Transformers 2 in French (we don't speak French) and it was artsier for sure because we couldn't understand how stupid the dialogue was
They're not "skeptical" about movies, that makes no sense. It's cynical to say the movie industry is shoveling out garbage every year. But it's also true.
Oct. 2017 checking in, let's see how you guys did: *(Updated Feb. 2018)* *The Mummy* Budget: $125-195 million (A little over what you guessed) Box office (total) $409.1 million, (a lot more than you guessed.) RT score: 16% (Significantly worse than you guessed) *Beauty and the Beast* Budget: $160 million (30% more than you guessed) Box office: $1.263 billion (A shitload more than you guessed, turns out it really was a stable bet) RT Score: 71% (You were close!) *Power Rangers* Budget: $100 million (A little less than you predicted) Box office: $142.3 million ( A good bit less, turned out if flopped pretty hard in the Asian markets) RT Score: 44% (Higher than you thought, but still pretty shit) *Jumanji (Welcome to the Jungle)* Budget: $90-$110 million (A good bit less than you predicted) Box Office: 919.9 million (Almost 3 times what you predicted) RT Score: 76% (Again, far higher than you predicted. It seems Sony's Jumanji remake starring The Rock was actually pretty solid. Go figure.) *Transformers 5 (The Last Knight)* Budget: $217 Million (Close, but higher) Box office: $605.4 million (A *LOT* less than you predicted. Definitely dipped below the 1B mark. I'd say this could be the end if there wasn't already a spin -off and a 6th film in the making) RT Score: 15% (Even less than what you predicted. Again, yadda yadda, end but more in the planning.) *Justice League* Budget: $300 million (A little more, but you were still close) Box Office: $657.6 (A great deal less than you predicted) RT Score: 40% (A little higher, but you were very close) And finally, *Spider-Man: Homecoming* (The wild card) Budget: $175 million (Close, but a little less) Box Office: $879.7 million (VERY close to your domestic/international combined guess) RT Score: 92%, higher than you predicted and definitely better than the last ones. You guys said it best: "3rd time's the charm! That's what Sony would have said if they wanted to remind the world of the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies!"
I think Mike might have been giving numbers for First 2 week box office, not overall - which his numbers reflect a lot closer to those numbers - but man those huge numbers are just depressing
As a Vancouver resident, I'd like to thank half of these tallentless hacks for reinvigorating the BC economy with the overpriced flops they chose to film in our scenic film tax haven where labour costs are 75 cents on the dollar. We're quite literally going through a film boom right now based on movies that no one will care about in six months time. Thank you, Hollywood.
@@luiginastro8831 It's still going well. The local industry has expanded by building one of the largest studios in the country and the single largest LED screen studio in the world. Now the big money maker is crappy Netflix shows that no one will ever watch.
Don't worry, I'm sure that in 5 years, movies will have a budget with $500 Mil. and only make half back and Hollywood will still be like, "IT'S NOT WORKING! THROW MORE MONEY AT IT!!"
10:50 To be entirely fair, Blizzard certainly knew they were doing to do gangbusters in China. They have a huge number of people who play that game in China. The movie and game could've been about watching paint dry, China would've shelled out money to go see one of the first MMORPG videogames they were allowed to play.
You guys got your math wrong. Rule of thumb is a film needs 2.5x the production budget to break even & cover marketing. Studio gets 50% worldwide box office on average, theaters get the other 50%. Hollywood Studio's usually keep the marketing cost a secret. To make films seem more profitable than they actually were. To inflate their stock value. BvS production budget was 250mil plus 150mil marketing. BvS break even was 800million. Ghostbusters budget was 144million minus 6mil tax credit plus 100 million marketing. Break even was 488million.
There’s no way theater owners keep 50% of box office stubs. AFAIK they get next to nothing for each ticket, which is why they charge so much for concessions. Buying a coke and popcorn is like paying for the real ticket to their screening, hence why it costs about the same as admission price.
Well if Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. are leaving the MCU we can all assume Marvel's ship goes down from there...along with other superhero franchises.
@@TheBasaltHorogium thank god. No mo superhero movies for the next millenia. Now they have to make all the remakes, and finallllly make original indie movie type of deal.
DAVIDInitiative If I remember correctly(and I do, oh I do), that little film's most remarkable aspect was the furor that arose from mostly British and Australian actors portraying Egyptian gods.
The general rule is the film makers get about half the gross world wide box office (55% domestic, 45% foreign) but you have to add $30 to $150 million to the production budget for marketing/advertising. Each distribution company gets different deals per movie and with different cinemas (AMC gets a different deal than Regal and the solo screen/regional chain cinemas also get different terms). The cut favors the film makers for the first few (and the most lucrative) weeks then favors the cinema after about a month. In the 2000s when the studios had HUGE DVD sales they had cinemas over a barrel and got much better splits. Now that home theater sales are much weaker and more cinemas are corporately owned, the studios get a smaller take.
Exactly. If they decide to make a video discussing how box office numbers work, they should probably go ahead and learn how box office numbers work first. Though to be honest, this is RLM, why did I even expect more.
Isn't foreign box office really variable, I know they've made some deals in China to make the % of the gross higher in that country, but isn't it to around 45% to 15% of the foreign gross that a movie makes? The companies do have to pay for the dubbing, subtitling, and possibly another distribution company. Also they forgot to mention investors, if WB tells them to expect 1 billion dollar movie and they don't get it, those investors might get antsy about investing again in WB. There's also toy sales, but that is mostly for kids and superhero movies only. If you look at the 25 highest grossing films for 2016, only around half of them made a profit if you take this into consideration.
Surprised you didn't mention this summer's biggest hit - Independence Day: Regurgitation. Also Guardians of the Galaxy 2 next year. And another Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which is basically the fantasy/adventure version of the Transformers franchise.
I actually fe lt so sorry for Javier Bardem when I found out he was in the new Pirates movie. I mean, it's already quite obvious that it's going to suck, given the behind the scenes problems they've had.
Wowowow before you say that pirates of the caribian is equal to that Michael Bay garbage just think before you judge theres some real talent in there plus the cast is great. They aren't great but still not that bad.
PotC movies may at this point be a machine nobody involved in making really cares about but at least the first one was actually a good movie and you can tell what's happening on the screen as action scenes have more to them than just a car crash.
Did you see that godawful 'Are Original Movies Dead?' video too? RLM at least has a few jokes, charm and entertainment value, even if spreadsheets read aloud are replacing movie reviews... There was a decent Cracked video 'Why Hollywood Can Lose Billions & Still Make Terrible Movies' covering similar ground.
Holy shit! Mike hit the rotten tomato score for "beauty and the beast" on the nose and almost hit Domestic box office right on too! This guy knows his Blockbuster monotony!
Well Robert Zemeckis has said that a BTTF remake won't happen as long as he's alive. And even after he's dead, he wants his estate to do all it can to prevent a remake. This makes me happy.
That's not even necessary, even. They could have just replaced the audio in the old video with the fixed audio. They didn't have to completely reupload the whole video.
I think ghostbuster's rotten tomatoes score owes to how aggressively okay it is. RT only rates how many people thought a movie was passable - not how much people actually liked it. It's like how most people who eat a big mac feel decently satisfied with the purchase but nothing more.
There was also a definite phenemenon of people wanting to praise the movie as a counterbalance to all the incel women hating rage against it. I think a lot of people convinced themselves it was better than it really was for that reason.
The Mummy - Production Budget 125 Million Domestic: 12 million (as of June 9) Foreign: $139 million Total: 151 million. Rotten Tomatoes: 17% as of June 10.
I assume this is the reason that Great Wall movie is being made. "Why are we trying to gamble on what the Chinese want? Let's just make a movie set in China and they'll have to buy it!"
And people still call that movie racist even though there is only like one or 2 American actors in the movie (Matt Damon) while everyone else are Chinese actors, working on a movie by a Chinese director. Also Matt Damon plays a soldier sent to China to assist, so where is the so-called "whitewashing"
Brandon Dozier I assume it was a gut reaction to seeing the first images of Damon leading an asian army. And I guess people aren't accusing it of white washing as much as playing into the stereotype "it takes a white guy to save another race". One could guess the story was created cause western audiences were assumed to want a white person to identify with. Or because there are no asian stars big enough to sell the movie. (That's true though. Besides Jet Li and Jackie Chan there are no big asian blockbuster names) But I agree, you can't really call it white washing when a Damon plays a foreginer and asians play asians.
BenRangel The director said Matt Damon's character isn't meant to be a white savior, so I do think it's to have an actor in there so that western audiences will see it.
Brandon Dozier Probably. But there's an example to the contrary: Crouching Tiger and it's $128 millions in US earnings. But that was a unicorn. It got excellent reviews, huge amounts of press, and felt new and fresh. They could never pull that off with average looking schlock like Great Wall.
Absolutely true, but it was a non-Disney stop motion flick, and if your stop movie flick ain't Shaun The Sheep, it is not going to make case at the BO. And KUBO was not even the worst stop-motion financial disaster, oddly enough. Missing Link lost at least $100 Million.
it makes me so sad that Kubo And The Two Strings didn't do well because it's such a beautiful film. granted i didn't see it in theaters for same reasons as everyone else but it's so worth it y'all pls watch it.
Old video, but I was a bit baffled you guys did not understand the 2x rule. The 2-2.5x rule is about accounting for the 50%-40% of the gross studios actually receive. If a movie has a 200M budget and 100M in marketing costs, if don’t break even at all for the studio at 300M of BO.
My phone gave me a reminder to re-watch this episode. I can't remember why I put in the reminder, but I remember it was a year ago so I'm excited to find out!
Wow, a couple of those predictions were spot on--and a couple I think you were trying to predict a small profit, and you would have been closer if you'd remembered the theaters' cuts. I can't wait to see your new video revisiting this! I'm curious if Wonder Woman's performance and a change in directors will affect your prediction for Justice League.
Hey, if you want to see how well Mike's predictions were, I made a spreadsheet. Here is a summary of the results: The Mummy: Under estimated the Int. B.O a bit, but was way off with an RT score 21% higher than the actual RT score of 15%. Beauty and the beast: Wildly under estimated the B.O (Dom: $500 mil; Int: $750 mil) but the RT score was spot on. Power Rangers: Fairly close in the B.O, but under estimated the RT score by 19%. Currently it sits at 45%. Transformers 5: Over estimated in B.O and RT score but the Int. B.O was much less than he thought at $380 mil. Unfortunately it's still bringing in over double it's budget. Spider-man: Bit too soon to say for the B.O, but the RT score is 21% higher than predicted. Currently at 93%. Jumanji and Justice league are expected to be released at the end of the year. I'll try to keep this updated. Overall, Mike has been close on budget; Fairly variable results on the B.O, both over and underestimating in both markets; and on average, 10% off on RT scores. I think the results Transformers and Beauty and the beast really threw of his scores but the others were fairly close.
You know, after all these episodes the thing I've come to appreciate most about this channel is how much you commit to genuine destruction of shit. You don't just pretend to smash a hammer into a TV screen, you genuinely smash a hammer into it. When you throw glass and hear it shatter it's real, you don't hold anything back and you don't second guess any of it before or after you do it. I have to say one of my first memorable moments I had when watching your videos was seeing Mike casually throw a bottle over his shoulder and it violently smashes on the ground. How often do you see people casually do this kind of shit in their movie reviews?
When just realize that the Transformers series is one of the most financially dependable in Hollywood it helps you to understand the state that the film industry is in. Why bother making films with decent scripts or characters when you can throw some crap together on screen and rely on nostalgia to bring the dollars in.
***** Kinda. It's a bit more nuanced, it's based on an average split over the lifetime of a movie. The further a movie is from release weekend, the larger the split of the money going to the theater is in order to encourage theaters to keep older movies in. Which summarizes why you see more movies with less box office time; it's sort of Hollywood shafting theaters on their end of the deal. Back in the 70s a film like the Godfather could easily have a 11 month run in theaters... because the studios simply didn't put anything else out. Back then it was a 50/50 split. So when you see, say, The Revenant on opening weekend? The theater gets a pittance out of those ticket sales. But when you go see it 2 weeks later and you're the only person in the theater, free to wave your dick around like a madman? THOSE tickets give the theater a much more significant cut.
There's no fucking way theaters take even remotely close to a 50% cut in the first few weeks of big budget films (and after that it doesn't matter). More like 0% cut probably.
The studios don't take 100% of the box office. They split around 50/50 with domestic theatres and only take 20-25% from Chinese theatres. So, a lot of movies actually don't make money back. E.g. Warcraft needed $450-500 million to break even. It didn't make $113 million as Mike said.
Mike was actually really on the money with Power Rangers. As of 6/6/17, it had a budget of 100 million and has made 140 million worldwide thus far. Interestingly, though, it's made significantly more here than international. His RT score was pretty rough, though, with it currently sitting at 46%. He couldn't have been more wrong with BatB, though. It cost 160 million to make and has net 1.2 BILLION dollars as of this writing, with a 40-60 split between domestic and foreign. It sits at 71% on RT though, so he was pretty close there.
That's because no one fucking knew about it. I wanted to watch it after hearing people talk about it on the internet, saw a trailer and that put me off.. Thankfully I was dragged to see it and I'm glad I did.
Mark Rocknrolla As opposed to those movies without great technology, artistic style, and techniques, AND had mediocre characters that made enough to be considered great successes
I don't know if continually making generic coming of age stories about quirky kids could be considered "balancing" the Disney bullshit. I'd like to see animated movies that actually step outside the common perception that "animation is for kids", and actually try something really original.
This was a great video idea, but unfortunately, as noted below, the way in which the box office works is that the film makers usually take an approximately 55% cut of the box office (domestic) with the theaters taking the remainder and the film makers taking a slightly smaller cut in foreign markets. People often use 45% for simplicity purposes. Then, of course, you have marketing costs and that on top of the production budget. Then films make money on DVD/Blu-Ray and other media sales/orders/rentals.
And don't forget guys... it's not just the box office that movies make money from. There's also the following (plus more): - Bluray/DVD sales - Music Soundtrack sales - Product placements within the movies - Cable TV rights / Streaming rights / Rentals - Free to air TV rights - Public display rights (such as planes, trains, cruise ships) - Merchandise (toys, action figures, LEGO, posters, stationary, clothing, calendars, etc) - Video games - Books (new works, companion books, etc) - Collector cards (like Panini) Also the following applies more with the big budget movies..... they'll do research and development to further expand technology that they'll then sell to other studios. For example the special effects company for Lord of the Rings (I think WETA Digital from memory) developed software called MASSIVE for their large crowd simulations which have since been used by many movies and TV shows since then
I wouldn't say videogames so much, since those have to be created from the ground up using some of the advertisement budget while everything else you listed (except Moichandazing of course) are elements that are being taken out of an already created product. But you're still right
2017 Predictions 17:17 The Mummy Budget: 125-195 Mil Domestic: 80.2 Mil International: 329 Mil RT: 19% 17:55 Beauty and the Beast Budget: 160 Mil Domestic: 504 Mil International: 759.5 Mil RT: 71% 18:30 Power Rangers Budget: 100 Mil Domestic: 85.4 Mil International: 57 Mil RT: 44% 19:45 Jumanji Budget: 90-110 Mil Domestic: 262.3 Mil International: 279.4 Mil RT: 75% 20:03 Transformers 5 Budget: 217-260 Mil Domestic: 130.2 Mil International: 475.3 Mil RT: 16% 20:55 Justice League Budget: 300 Mil Domestic: 227.2 Mil International: 427.2 Mil RT: 40% 24:56 Spider-Man: Homecoming Budget: 175 Mil Domestic: 334.2 Mil International: 546 Mil RT: 92%
I know this is, gods, a video you guys uploaded years ago -- but I wanted to say that I keep re-watching it to get that amazing Transformers / Bollywood mash-up. Thank you for everything you guys do. If I am ever in the area, I want to buy you guys dinner.
Studio receives 50-60% of box office money from domestic market, ~40% from foreign and ~25% from China thanks to theirs new tax laws introduced to protect local market.
Pause at 25:11 to compare Mike's predictions with reality. The Mummy: $125 mil budget, $80 mil domestic, $359 mil intl, RT score 36% Beauty and the Beast: $160 mil budget, $504 mil domestic, $759 mil intl, RT score 71% Power Rangers: $100 mil budget, $85 mil domestic, $56 mil intl, RT score 44% Jumanji 2: $90 mil budget, $185 mil domestic, $153 mil intl, RT score 77% Transformers 5: $217 mil budget, $130 mil domestic, $475 mil intl, RT score 16% Justice League: $300 mil budget, $225 mil domestic, $427 mil intl, RT score 40% Spider-Man: Homecoming: $175 mil budget, $334 mil domestic, $545 mil intl, RT score 92% Facts and figures sourced from Box Office Mojo, Google, and Rotten Tomatoes.
Holy fucking shit this is so old but the article posted for ghostbusters not being a flop was written by the most disgusting shill I’ve ever had the displeasure of knowing in real life so it made my day to see that pop up in your video
Mike did not fulfill his promise of revisiting the nursing home joke. That's almost as disappointing as the presence of an unnecessary "s" in the title "Bridget Jones's Baby."
I have come back from the future and the results are in!
The Mummy
Budget - $125 m
Domestic - $80m
International - $330m
RT - 16
Beauty and the Beast
Budget - $160m
Domestic - $500m
International - $760m
RT - 71
Power Rangers
Budget - $100m
Domestic - $85
International - $56
RT - 44
Transformers
Budget - $217m
Domestic - $130m
International - $475m
RT - 16
Justice league
Budget - $300m
Domestic - $227m
International - $425m
RT - 40
Spider-Man
Budget - &175m
Domestic - $334m
International - $545m
RT - 92
Jumanji
Budget - $90m
Domestic - $404m
International - $962
RT - 76
I really hope that someone else sees this.
Humanity needs to be eviscerated
I love you
This makes that portion of the video much better.
@@Lucky-sh1dm You Maniacs. You Blew It Up. Damn You. Goddamn You All To Hell!
Thanks for completing this video for me!!
"You know how many Chinese people there are? Who's gonna notice a couple missing?"
-Jay Bauman pre-coronavirus
"oh my god"
"The movie industry is in shambles"
@@A.B994 - “You know how many Chinese people there are? Who’s gonna notice a couple missing?” - Chinese government after abducting political dissidents, putting them in concentration camps, and harvesting their organs
he said something after that but they edited it out. i wonder what it was
@@851852093114208513 cant wait for the docu talking about the holocaust of china harvesting organs in a 100 Yeats
10:57
It's simple, really: the Chinese don't have any attachment to Star Wars (as it was blocked for decades by the Chinese government), but they do have one for Warcraft (since WoW has a huge Chinese following). It doesn't help that TFA relied on knowledge and nostalgia for the original trilogy to draw in the core fans of the franchise.
Yup
TFA is like 99% nostalgia and a margin of error for actual quality or original stuff. Whatever they did to re-edit or remake those posters (which was utterly disgraceful) they were heading for a foregone conclusion. You can't market nostalgia for a film series most people haven't seen.
Sure it was blocked. Small band of rebels againt evil empire. Uighurs and Tibet anybody?
Didn’t help that TFA was cartoony self aware garbage.
Wow with a Bollywood soundtrack Transformers may actually be watchable!
Geoff Wilde you're
You're*
Get fucked.
Dayum! Emotions run high in Bollywood!
At our house we watched Transformers 2 in French (we don't speak French) and it was artsier for sure because we couldn't understand how stupid the dialogue was
16:08
I actually like these videos a lot. This, whenever they get cynical about the industry. The Jack and Jill videos. They're great work
True
They're not "skeptical" about movies, that makes no sense. It's cynical to say the movie industry is shoveling out garbage every year. But it's also true.
@@stevej71393 Who said the word skeptical?
Jay saying "oh my god" always breathes life into me
*Unless you're Chinese
Its so great
Why are these two VHS repair guys talking about Box office numbers? Get back to work you hacks!
Also I love you.
I sure hope they re-uploaded the video to fix the part at the end where they finish the joke about Bridgett Jones's Baby/ Nursing home joke.
Will it be in Half in the Bag: Answer the Call? Don't forget, it is indeed certified fresh!
They're going to mention it in the 2017 episode.
What movie is it?
Yeah, it's pretty damn awsome.
Keep your eyes out for Half in the Bag: Answer the Joke
I like how at 1:43 Jay says the episode will be over in approximately 26 minutes, and then it ends exactly 26 minutes 16 seconds later
Right?!? How did HE DO THAT? Oh my god...
@@brokenfingers9607 editing. he said a bunch of different times and only showed you the correct one. duh.
Oct. 2017 checking in, let's see how you guys did: *(Updated Feb. 2018)*
*The Mummy*
Budget: $125-195 million (A little over what you guessed)
Box office (total) $409.1 million, (a lot more than you guessed.)
RT score: 16% (Significantly worse than you guessed)
*Beauty and the Beast*
Budget: $160 million (30% more than you guessed)
Box office: $1.263 billion (A shitload more than you guessed, turns out it really was a stable bet)
RT Score: 71% (You were close!)
*Power Rangers*
Budget: $100 million (A little less than you predicted)
Box office: $142.3 million ( A good bit less, turned out if flopped pretty hard in the Asian markets)
RT Score: 44% (Higher than you thought, but still pretty shit)
*Jumanji (Welcome to the Jungle)*
Budget: $90-$110 million (A good bit less than you predicted)
Box Office: 919.9 million (Almost 3 times what you predicted)
RT Score: 76% (Again, far higher than you predicted. It seems Sony's Jumanji remake starring The Rock was actually pretty solid. Go figure.)
*Transformers 5 (The Last Knight)*
Budget: $217 Million (Close, but higher)
Box office: $605.4 million (A *LOT* less than you predicted. Definitely dipped below the 1B mark. I'd say this could be the end if there wasn't already a spin -off and a 6th film in the making)
RT Score: 15% (Even less than what you predicted. Again, yadda yadda, end but more in the planning.)
*Justice League*
Budget: $300 million (A little more, but you were still close)
Box Office: $657.6 (A great deal less than you predicted)
RT Score: 40% (A little higher, but you were very close)
And finally, *Spider-Man: Homecoming* (The wild card)
Budget: $175 million (Close, but a little less)
Box Office: $879.7 million (VERY close to your domestic/international combined guess)
RT Score: 92%, higher than you predicted and definitely better than the last ones.
You guys said it best: "3rd time's the charm! That's what Sony would have said if they wanted to remind the world of the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies!"
Thanks for this. RDJ was in SM:HC a lot more than I think Mike predicted, and yet it was still cheaper than he predicted.
nice recap. Turns out that they pretty much hit homecoming on the money, but missed everything else.
I think Mike might have been giving numbers for First 2 week box office, not overall - which his numbers reflect a lot closer to those numbers - but man those huge numbers are just depressing
CamTroid thank you for saving me the time of checking this for myself lol
Belfry if thats the case he wouldn't say 300m domestic for Spider-Man Homecoming
7:20 Don't you mean..."how em-ben-hur-assing?" Thank you, thank you.
Congrats!
"........I don't get it."
That's not even a good joke
Mike Stoklastradamus
As a Vancouver resident, I'd like to thank half of these tallentless hacks for reinvigorating the BC economy with the overpriced flops they chose to film in our scenic film tax haven where labour costs are 75 cents on the dollar. We're quite literally going through a film boom right now based on movies that no one will care about in six months time. Thank you, Hollywood.
How's that going now?
@@luiginastro8831 It's still going well. The local industry has expanded by building one of the largest studios in the country and the single largest LED screen studio in the world. Now the big money maker is crappy Netflix shows that no one will ever watch.
Don't worry, I'm sure that in 5 years, movies will have a budget with $500 Mil. and only make half back and Hollywood will still be like, "IT'S NOT WORKING! THROW MORE MONEY AT IT!!"
😂😂
Basically Avatar 2 & 3
@@DarkAngelEU they're degenerate gamblers
So it's five years later and we're CLOSE. So very close. I think the biggest budget so far was 340 million?
5 years later and 1 season of a show cost $1 BILLION and it’s not that good!!
2015: "The death of the summer blockbuster"
2020: 😒
1:56 no payoff for the Bridget Jones Nursing timer
It's going to be in the Ultimate Edition blu-ray.
What a fraud as usual!!
Yeah, they will also replace Mikes clipboard with a walky talky
For the 2017 prediction scoring video, geeze.
Hacks
That feel when you get a notification that there is a new RLM video twice in one day. But you realize it's the same video. Fucking Hacks.
thematically it is very apropos
Adding Bollywood music to the Transformers movies instantly fixed them.
🤣
Do you know the name of the song?
16:08 Bizarrely that Indian music fits well on that scene.
quehay45 I now want a Bollywood Transformers in the worst way. (Full disclosure white male that has never seen a Bollywood movie in its entirety)
J Dee Carter Are you an idiot? Bollywood is India, not the Middle East. There's not many terrorist in India they're not even Islamic.
jason mathes I suggest Endiharan (aka Robot) it's a mad romp.
@Crow
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@Crow Depends on what you're watching. You, outside India, probably get to watch only the big budget dumbed down films.
10:50
To be entirely fair, Blizzard certainly knew they were doing to do gangbusters in China. They have a huge number of people who play that game in China. The movie and game could've been about watching paint dry, China would've shelled out money to go see one of the first MMORPG videogames they were allowed to play.
"Allowed to play"
Damn, I couldn't imagine my government telling me what games I'm allowed to play. That must suck royally
You guys got your math wrong.
Rule of thumb is a film needs 2.5x the production budget to break even & cover marketing. Studio gets 50% worldwide box office on average, theaters get the other 50%. Hollywood Studio's usually keep the marketing cost a secret. To make films seem more profitable than they actually were. To inflate their stock value.
BvS production budget was 250mil plus 150mil marketing. BvS break even was 800million.
Ghostbusters budget was 144million minus 6mil tax credit plus 100 million marketing. Break even was 488million.
Wait, you (allegedly) have the production number and the marketing number, why do you use the rule of thumb?
Theaters do not make that much off of ticket sales
There’s no way theater owners keep 50% of box office stubs. AFAIK they get next to nothing for each ticket, which is why they charge so much for concessions. Buying a coke and popcorn is like paying for the real ticket to their screening, hence why it costs about the same as admission price.
I was in the middle of watching this and it disappeared. Hacks
lol same here.
Same WTF.
Same.
I was making a deep and insightful comment. Now I have to shitpost.
Leave it to a bunch of hack frauds to say they're going to revisit this a year later to only end up never bringing it up again
5:52 "I'm sure somebody bought a really nice couch." -Jay Predicting Hollywood Scandal of 2017
I honestly thought the Superhero fatigue would've started with Age Of Ultron.
People will still be assuming superhero fatigue is going to set in for the next decade as they keep making billions.
Well if Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. are leaving the MCU we can all assume Marvel's ship goes down from there...along with other superhero franchises.
@@TheBasaltHorogium If rumours are true, there might be Marvel Video Game Universe.
@@TheBasaltHorogium thank god. No mo superhero movies for the next millenia. Now they have to make all the remakes, and finallllly make original indie movie type of deal.
After infinity war people want superhero movies more then ever!
oh fuck, they are remaking Jumanji with kevin hart......holy fuck end this world already aliens
not a remake, its a sequel
Rish Fish oh no.......
IT'S TIME TO STOP™
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Han Solo did you see that? its the joke flying over your head silly
“50,000 people used to work here. Now it’s a ghost town.”
-Sony Pictures
"Jay, can you guess the last two movies that flopped this summer?" "Uhhhh . . ." "It was The BFG!"
And? AND?
Oh yeah, I forgot . . . you frack hauds!!!! Errrr . . . hack frauds!!! Shut up!
Conspiracy theories abound. Landis called in another favour from the Macaucau demon to have it not be mentioned.
I have it on good authority that the Macaucau demon is Goddamn Rich Evans
oh yeah funhaus mentioned that movie a little. Mostly as the punchline of jokes.
DAVIDInitiative If I remember correctly(and I do, oh I do), that little film's most remarkable aspect was the furor that arose from mostly British and Australian actors portraying Egyptian gods.
The Mummy - Budget:125M - DBO:80M -IBO:329M -RTS:37%
Beauty & The Beast - Budget:160M - DBO:504M - IBO:759M - RTS:81%
Power Rangers - Budget:100M - DBO:85M - IBO: 57M - RTS:67%
Jumanji - Releasing 12/20/17 (No numbers available yet)
Transformers 5 - Budget:200M - DBO:130M - IBO: 475M - RTS:46%
Justice League - Releasing 11/17/17 (No numbers available yet)
Spiderman - Budget:175M - DBO:333M - IBO: 546M - RTS:89%
25:10 for comparison
Aaaaaaand Beauty and the Beast makes a billion dollars. I mean I don't think anyone would've predicted that.
It's a Disney movie. They'd make millions if they made a movie about singing turds.
"You know how many Chinese people there are? Who's going to miss a couple?"
- The Chinese Government
Literally Mao
The general rule is the film makers get about half the gross world wide box office (55% domestic, 45% foreign) but you have to add $30 to $150 million to the production budget for marketing/advertising. Each distribution company gets different deals per movie and with different cinemas (AMC gets a different deal than Regal and the solo screen/regional chain cinemas also get different terms). The cut favors the film makers for the first few (and the most lucrative) weeks then favors the cinema after about a month. In the 2000s when the studios had HUGE DVD sales they had cinemas over a barrel and got much better splits. Now that home theater sales are much weaker and more cinemas are corporately owned, the studios get a smaller take.
Good to see a comment from someone who knows what they are talking about on here.
RLM kinda dropped the ball on this one. Max Landis needs to drop by and school them.
Exactly. If they decide to make a video discussing how box office numbers work, they should probably go ahead and learn how box office numbers work first. Though to be honest, this is RLM, why did I even expect more.
To clarify I am a big fan of this channel and RLM. I hope to meet them next time I'm in Milwaukee.
Isn't foreign box office really variable, I know they've made some deals in China to make the % of the gross higher in that country, but isn't it to around 45% to 15% of the foreign gross that a movie makes? The companies do have to pay for the dubbing, subtitling, and possibly another distribution company.
Also they forgot to mention investors, if WB tells them to expect 1 billion dollar movie and they don't get it, those investors might get antsy about investing again in WB. There's also toy sales, but that is mostly for kids and superhero movies only.
If you look at the 25 highest grossing films for 2016, only around half of them made a profit if you take this into consideration.
Surprised you didn't mention this summer's biggest hit - Independence Day: Regurgitation.
Also Guardians of the Galaxy 2 next year. And another Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which is basically the fantasy/adventure version of the Transformers franchise.
Totally not going to be a repeat of Pirates 2: Dead Chest. Evil Undead Pirate guy. Totally coincidental.
I actually fe lt so sorry for Javier Bardem when I found out he was in the new Pirates movie. I mean, it's already quite obvious that it's going to suck, given the behind the scenes problems they've had.
The Boy Blunder
Yeah, they're fun blockbuster films.
Wowowow before you say that pirates of the caribian is equal to that Michael Bay garbage just think before you judge theres some real talent in there plus the cast is great. They aren't great but still not that bad.
PotC movies may at this point be a machine nobody involved in making really cares about but at least the first one was actually a good movie and you can tell what's happening on the screen as action scenes have more to them than just a car crash.
Funny watching this in 2019, I've forgotten about so many of these movies
25:25 - I marked this on my calendar.
I came back, just like you guys said.
WHERE'S MY FREAKING UPDATE, YOU HACK FRAUDS?
Don't believe me? It's all in the numbers...
Number one: that's terror.
Number two: that's terror.
U....UNATCO?
Michael L. I like to make a silent takedown....
Within the week, there will be old men running the world.
... Critiquing sci-fi movies.
... Fucking and eating their pet cats.
The GEP Gun is the most silent way to eliminate Rich Evans.
Here's a Picture.
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The end part about hearing executives blowing their brains out in the Hollywood hills was fucking hilarious.
3:22 When he listed the biggest movies of 2016 I got really depressed and realized what a dark era that time was in retrospect.
Count how many times Susan says "Oooh my Gaaaawd".
It's 2021 and I'm still waiting for that joke, Mike
they should do this every year
This is so much better than Screen Junkies' cringe inducing talks.
because you can't be popular on any media platform while being true to yourself and these hack frauds don't give a fuck about pleasing the masses.
Did you see that godawful 'Are Original Movies Dead?' video too? RLM at least has a few jokes, charm and entertainment value, even if spreadsheets read aloud are replacing movie reviews...
There was a decent Cracked video 'Why Hollywood Can Lose Billions & Still Make Terrible Movies' covering similar ground.
Please do more of these cynical analysis videos, it's absolutely fantastic to hear you roast film studios and their logic.
Notice how Finn is drastically scaled down in the chinese movie poster
Seriously, I had to go back cuz at first I thought he wasn't even on there
Sometimes I forget that every country has its prejudices because I’m always hearing about America.
Holy shit! Mike hit the rotten tomato score for "beauty and the beast" on the nose and almost hit Domestic box office right on too! This guy knows his Blockbuster monotony!
Hopefully GhostBusters flopping results in no Back to the Future quick cash exploit remake.
will see...
Well Robert Zemeckis has said that a BTTF remake won't happen as long as he's alive. And even after he's dead, he wants his estate to do all it can to prevent a remake. This makes me happy.
I'm sure Hollywood will find some way to steal it from him...
Peter Loew Just like I thought Big Trouble In Little China was safe.
Danger Level 10 ...They can't remake Big Trouble... Can they?
They reloaded the whole thing just to fix the music at 12:55 lol
And here I thought that was part of a joke, lol.
Oh. That explains everything.
Now that's commitment to quality, if only the studios cared about their craft like these guys.
That's not even necessary, even. They could have just replaced the audio in the old video with the fixed audio. They didn't have to completely reupload the whole video.
I noticed that, too. And I've done it.
I think ghostbuster's rotten tomatoes score owes to how aggressively okay it is. RT only rates how many people thought a movie was passable - not how much people actually liked it. It's like how most people who eat a big mac feel decently satisfied with the purchase but nothing more.
I too love Big Macs
There was also a definite phenemenon of people wanting to praise the movie as a counterbalance to all the incel women hating rage against it. I think a lot of people convinced themselves it was better than it really was for that reason.
The Mummy - Production Budget 125 Million
Domestic: 12 million (as of June 9)
Foreign: $139 million
Total: 151 million.
Rotten Tomatoes: 17% as of June 10.
I was just thinking of how Mike set the bar so low in certain regards, and yet, as it turned out, he didn't lower the bar low enough.
Count how many times Jay says "oh my god..." in this video.
Gotta say, I'm a little dissappoited in the RLM fanbase. There was a Plinkett review last week and the channel isn't flooded with new memes yet.
the new memes will take 12 years to make
you WANT the channel flooded with memes?
We should be thankful that the Plinkett review exists in the first place.
Because that review was trash compared to other plinkett reviews.
There wasn't a lot of memorable stuff in that review, it was a disappointing mess with way too much focus on that stupid circles theory.
The Mummy:
Predictions - Budget $120m | BO $28m | I.B.O $100m | RT 36%
Actual - Budget $125m | BO $75m | IBO $300m | RT 15%
Difference - Budget $5m | B.O 47m | IBO 200m | RT 21%
The Beauty and the Beast:
Predictions - Budget $120m | BO $110m | $300m | RT 74%
Actual - Budget $160m | BO $503m | $756m | RT 71%
Difference - Budget $40m | BO $393m | $456m | RT 3%
The Power Rangers:
Predictions - Budget $120m | BO $50m | $200m | RT 26%
Actual - Budget $100m | BO $85m | $54m | RT 46%
Difference - Budget $20m | BO $35m | $146m | RT 20%
Jumanji:
Predictions - Budget $150m | BO $250m | $78m | RT 31%
Actual - N/A
Difference - Probably a lot
Transformers 5 TLK:
Predictions - Budget $200m | BO $230m | $900m | RT 21%
Actual - Budget $235m | BO $105m | $339m | RT 15%
Difference - Budget $35m | BO $125m | $561m | RT 6%
Is indeed the first one that dips below the billions
Justice League:
Predictions - Budget $250m | BO $350m | $600m | RT 34%
Actual - N/A
Difference - Probably a higher budget
Spiderman Homecoming:
Predictions - Budget $200m | BO $300m | $600m | RT 72%
Actual - N/A
Difference - Who knows.
So far the closest thing you got is the RT Scores. Hack Frauds exposed?
Yoshi5020 yet they still had to pay rdj #hackfrauds
They correctly predicted box office numbers for spiderman homecoming
I assume this is the reason that Great Wall movie is being made. "Why are we trying to gamble on what the Chinese want? Let's just make a movie set in China and they'll have to buy it!"
And people still call that movie racist even though there is only like one or 2 American actors in the movie (Matt Damon) while everyone else are Chinese actors, working on a movie by a Chinese director. Also Matt Damon plays a soldier sent to China to assist, so where is the so-called "whitewashing"
Koshiro2k3 People did engage in trade with China for luxurous goods and spices a lot back then. Gotta make sure their goods are safe. :V
Brandon Dozier I assume it was a gut reaction to seeing the first images of Damon leading an asian army.
And I guess people aren't accusing it of white washing as much as playing into the stereotype "it takes a white guy to save another race".
One could guess the story was created cause western audiences were assumed to want a white person to identify with. Or because there are no asian stars big enough to sell the movie. (That's true though. Besides Jet Li and Jackie Chan there are no big asian blockbuster names)
But I agree, you can't really call it white washing when a Damon plays a foreginer and asians play asians.
BenRangel The director said Matt Damon's character isn't meant to be a white savior, so I do think it's to have an actor in there so that western audiences will see it.
Brandon Dozier Probably. But there's an example to the contrary: Crouching Tiger and it's $128 millions in US earnings. But that was a unicorn. It got excellent reviews, huge amounts of press, and felt new and fresh.
They could never pull that off with average looking schlock like Great Wall.
Kubo and the two strings is one of my favourite films this year. Just a really magical experience. Like the Disney of yesteryear
Absolutely true, but it was a non-Disney stop motion flick, and if your stop movie flick ain't Shaun The Sheep, it is not going to make case at the BO. And KUBO was not even the worst stop-motion financial disaster, oddly enough. Missing Link lost at least $100 Million.
it makes me so sad that Kubo And The Two Strings didn't do well because it's such a beautiful film. granted i didn't see it in theaters for same reasons as everyone else but it's so worth it y'all pls watch it.
Old video, but I was a bit baffled you guys did not understand the 2x rule. The 2-2.5x rule is about accounting for the 50%-40% of the gross studios actually receive. If a movie has a 200M budget and 100M in marketing costs, if don’t break even at all for the studio at 300M of BO.
My phone gave me a reminder to re-watch this episode. I can't remember why I put in the reminder, but I remember it was a year ago so I'm excited to find out!
Wow, a couple of those predictions were spot on--and a couple I think you were trying to predict a small profit, and you would have been closer if you'd remembered the theaters' cuts. I can't wait to see your new video revisiting this! I'm curious if Wonder Woman's performance and a change in directors will affect your prediction for Justice League.
Hey, if you want to see how well Mike's predictions were, I made a spreadsheet. Here is a summary of the results:
The Mummy: Under estimated the Int. B.O a bit, but was way off with an RT score 21% higher than the actual RT score of 15%.
Beauty and the beast: Wildly under estimated the B.O (Dom: $500 mil; Int: $750 mil) but the RT score was spot on.
Power Rangers: Fairly close in the B.O, but under estimated the RT score by 19%. Currently it sits at 45%.
Transformers 5: Over estimated in B.O and RT score but the Int. B.O was much less than he thought at $380 mil. Unfortunately it's still bringing in over double it's budget.
Spider-man: Bit too soon to say for the B.O, but the RT score is 21% higher than predicted. Currently at 93%.
Jumanji and Justice league are expected to be released at the end of the year. I'll try to keep this updated.
Overall, Mike has been close on budget; Fairly variable results on the B.O, both over and underestimating in both markets; and on average, 10% off on RT scores. I think the results Transformers and Beauty and the beast really threw of his scores but the others were fairly close.
You know, after all these episodes the thing I've come to appreciate most about this channel is how much you commit to genuine destruction of shit. You don't just pretend to smash a hammer into a TV screen, you genuinely smash a hammer into it. When you throw glass and hear it shatter it's real, you don't hold anything back and you don't second guess any of it before or after you do it. I have to say one of my first memorable moments I had when watching your videos was seeing Mike casually throw a bottle over his shoulder and it violently smashes on the ground. How often do you see people casually do this kind of shit in their movie reviews?
When just realize that the Transformers series is one of the most financially dependable in Hollywood it helps you to understand the state that the film industry is in. Why bother making films with decent scripts or characters when you can throw some crap together on screen and rely on nostalgia to bring the dollars in.
They corrected the drop at 12:56 (over-saturation).
Not to fix that they omitted the fact that theatres take 50% of box office takings then?
Hacks.
Yeah, when I first saw it I thought that was intentional but I just didn't get the joke.
***** Kinda. It's a bit more nuanced, it's based on an average split over the lifetime of a movie. The further a movie is from release weekend, the larger the split of the money going to the theater is in order to encourage theaters to keep older movies in.
Which summarizes why you see more movies with less box office time; it's sort of Hollywood shafting theaters on their end of the deal. Back in the 70s a film like the Godfather could easily have a 11 month run in theaters... because the studios simply didn't put anything else out. Back then it was a 50/50 split.
So when you see, say, The Revenant on opening weekend? The theater gets a pittance out of those ticket sales. But when you go see it 2 weeks later and you're the only person in the theater, free to wave your dick around like a madman? THOSE tickets give the theater a much more significant cut.
vitya1980 I could be using outdated information, can't say that the economics of cinema is a study of passion.
There's no fucking way theaters take even remotely close to a 50% cut in the first few weeks of big budget films (and after that it doesn't matter). More like 0% cut probably.
Ghostbusters(remake) is the best Ghostbusters remake featuring 4 female ghostbusters!!1
You can't argue with that!
The studios don't take 100% of the box office. They split around 50/50 with domestic theatres and only take 20-25% from Chinese theatres. So, a lot of movies actually don't make money back. E.g. Warcraft needed $450-500 million to break even. It didn't make $113 million as Mike said.
Can you do a 2019 update that would be really interesting maybe turn it into a game show called 'Flop or Not'
Mike was actually really on the money with Power Rangers. As of 6/6/17, it had a budget of 100 million and has made 140 million worldwide thus far. Interestingly, though, it's made significantly more here than international. His RT score was pretty rough, though, with it currently sitting at 46%. He couldn't have been more wrong with BatB, though. It cost 160 million to make and has net 1.2 BILLION dollars as of this writing, with a 40-60 split between domestic and foreign. It sits at 71% on RT though, so he was pretty close there.
I was hoping to find a sequel here, thank you.
2,751,630 minutes later and we haven’t gotten the Bridget Jones joke.
Kubo and the Two Strings was a great movie. Too bad it flopped....
It still hurts, fuck
That's because no one fucking knew about it. I wanted to watch it after hearing people talk about it on the internet, saw a trailer and that put me off.. Thankfully I was dragged to see it and I'm glad I did.
It got what it deserved, it has great style, technology and techniques, but writing and characters were garbage.
Mark Rocknrolla
As opposed to those movies without great technology, artistic style, and techniques, AND had mediocre characters that made enough to be considered great successes
I don't know if continually making generic coming of age stories about quirky kids could be considered "balancing" the Disney bullshit. I'd like to see animated movies that actually step outside the common perception that "animation is for kids", and actually try something really original.
This was a great video idea, but unfortunately, as noted below, the way in which the box office works is that the film makers usually take an approximately 55% cut of the box office (domestic) with the theaters taking the remainder and the film makers taking a slightly smaller cut in foreign markets. People often use 45% for simplicity purposes. Then, of course, you have marketing costs and that on top of the production budget. Then films make money on DVD/Blu-Ray and other media sales/orders/rentals.
right i'm here in Nov 17 - still waiting for the Bridget Jones joke but it seems these men on pause
That last joke about Hollywood executives killing themselves is COMEDY GOLD.
What about Space Cop? What are its numbers?
That's a film that's going to stand the test of time, it's a modern day classic.
They sold out of their first 2 printings, so I assume it made money? Someone check the rims on Rich's mobility scooter.
1.3 Billion domestic*
...
*measured in bolívars
Well, the budget for Space Cop was around 100$ and 3 boxes of beer, without any marketing.
Mike was the key to all of it... He was a funnier character... Aaah whatever, WHO GIVES A SHIT, OUR EXISTANCE IS POINTLESS!
Personally i believe DC shouldn't bother with having a cinematic universe, i mean think about it most of the new DC movies were bad and flops..
you mean underperforming and dissapointing studio's expectations.
It's not a bad idea (which they stole), they're just completely failing to *do* it.
Khazuki I also feel the same way with fox, like literally their whole movie universe is just xmen and deadpool.
+Jax Dagger I think u forgot Man of Steel On that List.
And don't forget guys... it's not just the box office that movies make money from. There's also the following (plus more):
- Bluray/DVD sales
- Music Soundtrack sales
- Product placements within the movies
- Cable TV rights / Streaming rights / Rentals
- Free to air TV rights
- Public display rights (such as planes, trains, cruise ships)
- Merchandise (toys, action figures, LEGO, posters, stationary, clothing, calendars, etc)
- Video games
- Books (new works, companion books, etc)
- Collector cards (like Panini)
Also the following applies more with the big budget movies..... they'll do research and development to further expand technology that they'll then sell to other studios. For example the special effects company for Lord of the Rings (I think WETA Digital from memory) developed software called MASSIVE for their large crowd simulations which have since been used by many movies and TV shows since then
Spaceballs the t-shirt! Spaceballs the coloring book! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the breakfast cereal! Spaceballs the flamethrower!
uuuh, MASSIVE is also a VST
I wouldn't say videogames so much, since those have to be created from the ground up using some of the advertisement budget while everything else you listed (except Moichandazing of course) are elements that are being taken out of an already created product.
But you're still right
we're in the money, we're in the money...
J Dee Carter DVD out sells blu-ray - DVD is in way more homes than blu-ray as less than 50% of DVD owners have ever upgraded to blu-ray.
I wrote "Hack Frauds" on my calendar and then forgot what that meant.
I dont get it. help me
Being Indian, I totally lost my shit at 16:08 Excellent Job boys! 😂 Transformers footage set to the song Nagada: BRILLIANT!!!
Spoiler alert, they don't talk about how great masterminds is
Because its bad
2017 Predictions
17:17 The Mummy
Budget: 125-195 Mil
Domestic: 80.2 Mil
International: 329 Mil
RT: 19%
17:55 Beauty and the Beast
Budget: 160 Mil
Domestic: 504 Mil
International: 759.5 Mil
RT: 71%
18:30 Power Rangers
Budget: 100 Mil
Domestic: 85.4 Mil
International: 57 Mil
RT: 44%
19:45 Jumanji
Budget: 90-110 Mil
Domestic: 262.3 Mil
International: 279.4 Mil
RT: 75%
20:03 Transformers 5
Budget: 217-260 Mil
Domestic: 130.2 Mil
International: 475.3 Mil
RT: 16%
20:55 Justice League
Budget: 300 Mil
Domestic: 227.2 Mil
International: 427.2 Mil
RT: 40%
24:56 Spider-Man: Homecoming
Budget: 175 Mil
Domestic: 334.2 Mil
International: 546 Mil
RT: 92%
space cop was, of course, the highest grossing film of 2016
or of any year tbh
This is still relevant in 2019
You like watching old videos like me :)
ninjaa22 me too xD
This half-hour video taught me more about movies than my Film Studies minor.
Thanks for re-uploading. But you still didn't fix the cut at 26:04. Please re-reupload again. :P
lol
I love these analytical videos, *DO MORE!*
The Bollywood music over the transformers footage is fucking hilarious
I know this is, gods, a video you guys uploaded years ago -- but I wanted to say that I keep re-watching it to get that amazing Transformers / Bollywood mash-up. Thank you for everything you guys do. If I am ever in the area, I want to buy you guys dinner.
Whenever someone mentions 'The Magnificent 7' it just makes me want to Seven Samurai, again. Bloody great movie.
Pretty sure the remake audience generation doesnt have a clue who the fuck Kurosawa was.
Studio receives 50-60% of box office money from domestic market, ~40% from foreign and ~25% from China thanks to theirs new tax laws introduced to protect local market.
I'm an Indian and i laughed hard at the Bollywood joke. Binge-watched your channel a few days ago. You guys are very funny.
what's the name of the song around 16 minutes in?
It's Nagada Nagada from a movie called Jab We Met.
How much did Space Cop make? Guys? Hello? Oh...
I'm amused. Well done.
This is the work I admire you guys for!
Beauty and the Beast currently holds a 74% RT score.
ppl plz upvote this so we can acknowledge we are amidst a god
magnumcornetto Now it's at 71%
8:56 Mike's jokes like that are the reason I keep coming back to RedLetterMedia
1:38 with 26 minutes and 20 seconds left, Jay says “you have approximately 26 minutes and the episode will be over.”
Pause at 25:11 to compare Mike's predictions with reality.
The Mummy: $125 mil budget, $80 mil domestic, $359 mil intl, RT score 36%
Beauty and the Beast: $160 mil budget, $504 mil domestic, $759 mil intl, RT score 71%
Power Rangers: $100 mil budget, $85 mil domestic, $56 mil intl, RT score 44%
Jumanji 2: $90 mil budget, $185 mil domestic, $153 mil intl, RT score 77%
Transformers 5: $217 mil budget, $130 mil domestic, $475 mil intl, RT score 16%
Justice League: $300 mil budget, $225 mil domestic, $427 mil intl, RT score 40%
Spider-Man: Homecoming: $175 mil budget, $334 mil domestic, $545 mil intl, RT score 92%
Facts and figures sourced from Box Office Mojo, Google, and Rotten Tomatoes.
Jesus, didnt imagine the Beauty and the Beast was part of the exclusive Billion club.
Holy fucking shit this is so old but the article posted for ghostbusters not being a flop was written by the most disgusting shill I’ve ever had the displeasure of knowing in real life so it made my day to see that pop up in your video
"You know how many Chinese people there are? No one's gonna notice a few missing." "Oh my god..." 😂😂😂 That was so fucking funny!!
Is this replacing Half in the Bag Episode 117: Box Office Number Crunching?
For once, yes. Oh my GAAAAAAAWWWWD!
ajer14 Okay. I'll let you have that one.
Those hack frauds. BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL COMMENTS!!!!!
And Lost Planet was never a good game.
He caught you jRoldo
Mike did not fulfill his promise of revisiting the nursing home joke.
That's almost as disappointing as the presence of an unnecessary "s" in the title "Bridget Jones's Baby."
The second film that lost money I think is Gods of Egypt
Wow, Mike has been startlingly accurate with the predictions so far.
Glad you're still colaborating with science man!