We live in a world (or at least a country) where kindness is suspicious, and the expectation is that people who seemingly want to actually make lives better, especially children’s lives, must be hiding something. It’s understandable.

Every movie since like ever has technically “lost” money. The book baking fu is incredibly strong at movie studios. Now whether it ACTUALLY lost money.... that’s probably up for debate. I think it made money but still failed expectations.

A lot of audiences are rooting for this franchise to fail because of some whacky grudge they hold against Zack Snyder, David Ayers, and various other directors. Most of their complaints are laughably hypocritical or incredibly short-sighted.

If the DC films bomb, then these guys pat themselves on the back going “Great…

No one will ever know for sure. They get different amounts from the various foreign markets. The production budget is a guess and the ad budget even more so. Then there are streaming rights, blu-ray, merchandise, sponsorship, et cetera. They do not want you to know the truth because that allows them to fudge the…

Maybe I came at you a little strong with that reply...part of your post read like you were defending the movie’s box office performance because $650M with no context is a lot of money. But there’s a lot of context here, and I consistently see AVC commenters taking studio marketing/accounting practices into…

The problem was that WB and their shareholders had placed this on the schedule and penciled “FIVE shit-tons of money” next to it. It’s not so much about how it actually performed as much as it was how it compared to what the studio expected it to perform.

Edgar Allan Poe.

This movie didn’t make a billion. Which is what WB most likely wanted. It still made a profit. Just not as much as WB wanted. I wouldn’t say this is a failure, money wise. I say it’s more of a disappointment.

This. Also, the other solution is to just decriminalize sex work in general so that women (and men!) that are engaged in it have legal recourse if they are attacked/treated poorly, which would decrease the amount of trafficking.

And how dare you suggest paparazzi shouldn’t be allowed to use extreme range lens to take pictures of topless women on their own private property.

You may not.

Justice League cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make and market and studios split some of gross revenue with theaters. Beyond that, studios (like any other business) forecast their total financials and expect their largest investments to pay off in a big way. Movies that don’t meet internal projections are…

This video is fantastic. I also love his Emmy acceptance speech for his Lifetime Achievement Award:

I made it all the way! “Life Sentence” has been my crying outlet lately. But knowing this was done by the same folks that did “20' from Stardom” made me put it on my list to see it the day it comes out. Might have to sneak some Kleenex & wine into the theater thought.

(Seriously, if you haven’t seen “20 Feet...”, do…

For those of us who grew up with Mr. Rogers, this is going to make a million bucks. As someone who grew up in a hellish dysfunctional household, I can admit I watched even as a teenager. Mr. Rogers was the stability in an otherwise crazy childhood.

The world didn’t deserve that man but I’m sure glad we had him. Thank you Mr. Rogers for being my friend when nobody else would.

No, I’m fucking gorgeous. Get it right.

Then you probably shouldn’t vote for her. If you’re saying she has no right to even run for the nomination because you think it’s an offensive idea, then you should volunteer for Cuomo’s campaign. If she wins the nomination then you should volunteer for her Republican opponent. If she wins the election, you should…

I’m sorry, the connotation of “only because of his Daddy,” is that he’s some kind of idiot who can’t find his feet, when that’s obviously not true. It’s not like we’re talking about George W. Bush here. Getting all pissy at Cuomo’s advantages in life isn’t really an argument for Cynthia Nixon, if you ask me.

I’m not sure he ever had a chance.