But the vast majority of sales for those games (and, indeed, most games) would be in the first year, and probably just in the first few months of release. Jedi: Fallen Order did not just come out — it’s over three years old.

Imagine a version of the movie where it’s some random scientist who invented the vibranium detector — someone not drawn from the comics, and therefore with no assumption that they will return. Would you expect that sort of minor supporting character to have an arc?

I think the point is that you can tell all sorts of stories on Earth. And by that logic there’s nothing stopping Cameron from telling all sorts of stories that happen to be set on Pandora.

It’s not quite that simple. There will be hundreds of millions spent on marketing on top of the budget, plus theatres take about half the box office. So, if we say $460m (production) and $200m (marketing) and multiply the total by two, that gives an approximate break even point of just over $1.3b.

The film itself didn’t bother, I don’t think anyone else should either.

Netflix is the answer. It’s completely bonkers, but they apparently paid $469m for the rights to two new Benoit Blanc mysteries, of which Glass Onion is the first.

I really liked it too.

I mean Sonic did (movies anyway )

This is the mistake I thought they made with Uncharted. It should’ve just been another one of Drake’s adventures, instead it was this weird remix, telling a supposedly original “prequel”, but directly stealing a bunch of set pieces that the games did better. Assassin’s Creed was apparently not great (never saw it…

I think I’ll be looking into suing the makers of the Sonic movie.

I suppose that depends on whether the shorter version is pulled exclusively from material that is also in the longer version. It might make sense to have alternate scenes.

My point was not that it was for audience comfort, but that it was an opportunity to sell them another round of heavily marked-up snacks, which is where much of a theatre’s profits come from.

The point is that some cultures have been misrepresented and mistreated in real life and in media, are still mistreated, and in choosing whether to represent those cultures, we should at least try not to make the situation worse.

It’s less than half these days, the studios usually keep 55-60% (at least domestically), and it’s being pushed ever in the studio’s favour. There was a big fuss a few years back about Disney raising their cut to 65% for The Last Jedi, plus an additional 5% penalty for any theatre violating Disney’s conditions (which I…

Unnecessary is not the same as uninteresting. A 2.5 hour theatrical film would distil the story to its essence, where an expanded version can let it breathe with added details and subplots. Take Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for example. It made for an excellent miniseries at more than 5 hours (seven 45 minute episodes),…

I think that’s a studio issue more than a theatre issue.

You absolutely can pick and choose though. There was no reason why they couldn’t treat each of the separate subfranchises as their own thing going forwards. The Batman is already its own thing, so why not also let Aquaman be its own thing, Suicide Squad/Peacemaker be its own thing, Wonder Woman be its own thing, and Sh…

I’m pointedly not reading anything into it. I’m reading his words, exactly as he gave them, in the context in which they were given. The assumption is that he misspoke and meant something other than what he said, and I don’t deny the possibility, but it’s not what he actually said.

nobody should have bothered remaking The Three Musketeers after the 1973 Richard Lester version

IMDb says he’s in episodes 3 and 4.