The only commercial I saw for it was a 5 minute recap of Tom cruises past films with a 15 second clip of digger right at the end. And tom cruises name. Thats all I know about the movie.
That’s common. The $180MM is the production cost to which you need to add marketing etc… I watched Matt Damon and Bem Affleck talk about this when explaining why big studios are so risk averse when making movies. Basically the rule of thumb is that a movie needs to gross double it’s production cost just to break even, and that’s still considered a relative failure.
The marketing existed, but the trailers didn’t do much past showcase Tom Cruise being zany, and the plot did not seem very appealing. My guess is that, just like The Bride, they made an art house movie witha very niche audience, for way too much money. The budget for both movies should have been miniscule.
That’s too bad. I respect how Tom Cruise swung for the fence on this character.
That said. This movie should have had a budget of about $50MM, max
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The only commercial I saw for it was a 5 minute recap of Tom cruises past films with a 15 second clip of digger right at the end. And tom cruises name. Thats all I know about the movie.
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What is MM
The correct way to abbreviate million.
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/fixed-income/mm-millions/
Million Moneys
Oh, roman numeral bullshit. They can’t even do it correct MM is 2000
Tech uses greek.
K = thousands
M = millions
G = billions. So KB, MB, GB.
Financials use Roman.
M = thousand
MM = a thousand thousand (million)
MMM = a thousand thousand thousand (billion)
Mmm Mmm = crash test dummies
Impressive accounting to spend $180 mil, make some amount of profit, and still claim it costed you $245 mil.
That’s common. The $180MM is the production cost to which you need to add marketing etc… I watched Matt Damon and Bem Affleck talk about this when explaining why big studios are so risk averse when making movies. Basically the rule of thumb is that a movie needs to gross double it’s production cost just to break even, and that’s still considered a relative failure.
For most movies that tracks but where was the marketing on this one? Who pocketed all that money?
I saw a lot of ads fot it, including in theatres. Also marketing goes beyond ads. The trailers cost money, the press tour/junkets, etc.
I won’t pretend to know all the ins and outs, which is why I deferred to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck who have been in that business for a long time.
Nobody went to see the movie. So, again, where was the marketing on this one?
The marketing existed, but the trailers didn’t do much past showcase Tom Cruise being zany, and the plot did not seem very appealing. My guess is that, just like The Bride, they made an art house movie witha very niche audience, for way too much money. The budget for both movies should have been miniscule.