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Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Post by usrusr »

frfl wrote: post #41
nihiven wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to see how insane a 10-14 hour Dune movie would be. No intermission I'm sure.

Slightly unrelated, but there is a 19 hour fan-edit of the Hobbit + Lord of the Rings -- i.e someone glued all 3 Hobbit movies and all 3 LotR movies into a 19 hour video.

I believe that a 90 minutes cut of matrix 2+3 could be actually enjoyable.

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Post by AdamJacobMuller »

frfl wrote: post #41
nihiven wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to see how insane a 10-14 hour Dune movie would be. No intermission I'm sure.

Slightly unrelated, but there is a 19 hour fan-edit of the Hobbit + Lord of the Rings -- i.e someone glued all 3 Hobbit movies and all 3 LotR movies into a 19 hour video.

Hopefully that's 19 hours of LOTR with the 2-3 hours of the hobbit which was good.

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Post by dotcoma »

IshKebab wrote: post #25
mynameisash wrote: post #8

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According to this site[0], their revenue for 2022 was $31.6B, so $55M would be approximately 0.17%. Stated otherwise, on average, they make $55M every 15 hours or so. So yeah, it kind of seems like a rounding error. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272545/annual-revenue-of...

Revenue is the wrong number. Their net income is only $1.7b so $55m is not completely insignificant.

IMHO the right number is how much they spend to produce movies, shows, series etc.

$ 16.7 B in 2022.

So, 0,33 %

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Post by hinkley »

nihiven wrote: post #27
dylan604 wrote: post #16

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Sounds like Jodorwsky's Dune[0] where it's famous for not getting made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune

I would love to see how insane a 10-14 hour Dune movie would be. No intermission I'm sure.

SciFi did a miniseries, just before or just after they changed their name. It wasn't bad. I think it was about 10 hours.

The problem is that a lot of the payoff is at the end of book 3, and then book four tips the whole thing upside down with some deep religious and philosophical elements that I'm not sure everyone is ready for.

I'm always a little surprised how few people have read Dune relative to Lord of the Rings, but the more I think about Dune the more I get it.

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Post by starttoaster »

function_seven wrote: post #39

From the Times article: > [Rinsch] transferred more than $4 million from his Schwab account to an account on the Kraken exchange and bought Dogecoin, a dog-themed cryptocurrency. Guy sounds like a dummy > Unlike his stock market investments, this one paid off: When he liquidated his Dogecoin positions in May 2021, he had a balance of nearly $27 million. Shit, maybe I'm the dummy?

Around 2021, Dogecoin was a very interesting short term investment, yeah. Everyone was high off of AMC and GME in the stock market, so people were actively investing and day trading. Elon Musk was talking up Dogecoin, keeping in mind this is when he was still very popular in a positive way, and crypto in general was doing really well around that time. I'm not sure that it's wise to throw money into it now though. Crypto has become a very polarizing topic with people, with a vocal group of people that absolutely hate it (some of whom have no idea what they're talking about, but there are absolutely genuine reasons to dislike it as it's implemented today), and it has a somewhat uncertain future with government agencies reigning in on it (which certainly needs to happen for it to have a future too, but governments today seem more content with pulverizing the tech into the mud than see it grow into itself while keeping it fairly regulated.)

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Post by frfl »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #52
frfl wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slightly unrelated, but there is a 19 hour fan-edit of the Hobbit + Lord of the Rings -- i.e someone glued all 3 Hobbit movies and all 3 LotR movies into a 19 hour video.

Hopefully that's 19 hours of LOTR with the 2-3 hours of the hobbit which was good.

No, it's uncut, all deleted scenes, extended version of all movies if I'm not mistaken. It's not a "remix" edit, the 19 hour one I'm referring to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/bo8how/middle_ear...

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Post by metabagel »

livinginfear wrote: post #15

Since we're discussing the economics of film/TV studios, and their weird decisions. I'd like to understand why the studios are still making Star Trek shows. Each one seems to be more poorly received than the last. That's costing studios far more than $55M. Picard alone cost ~$9M per episode according to Wikipedia.

Paramount+ took a few swings at this, and eventually they hit paydirt with Strange New Worlds.

The intention isn’t to make mediocre shows. The intention is to make a show which draws an audience, and Star Trek shows start with a decent base audience to make it worth trying.

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Post by RajT88 »

rolph wrote: post #18
RajT88 wrote: post #10

I love these stories of sci-fi movie diasasters. There are just as many insane stories of "amazing this classic ever got made". On the topic of disasters, I recommend reading about The Starlost: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost

the "can i be of assistance" interface always reminded me of al jafee

That guy seemed really annoyed the whole time. It was strange!
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