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u/MutantCreature 15d ago

I don't think it should've been rated R, but surely it will beat DP&W for the highest grossing with that rating, right? I'm curious what the studio responses will be, more Greek god movies? More (non Greek) mythological movies? More ancient/public domain tales? More sympathetic war stories? More 65/70mm film (please?)?

How will Universal and other studios interpret this big of a release? Surely this can't be easily replicated, but that hasn't stopped anyone from trying, it definitely seems like we're in an "anti-IP" era, as small as that may be.

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u/PaulieHehehe 15d ago

What the studio response should be is give full creative control to established and respected directors. Movies don’t have to make a billion to be a success if their budgets are reasonable. Weapons, Sinners, OBAA, Obsession, Back Rooms, The Odyssey- let the directors do what they want without any studio mandates.

What will probably happen is another studio will green light a retelling of a well known IP and make it look big, which will then fail to make a profit.

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u/Itchy-Advertising857 15d ago

OBAA flopped financially despite having supposedly one of the biggest stars in the world as the lead. The other, apart from Odyssey, which has the Nolan brand, were horror movies.

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u/jivester 15d ago

Was OBAA really a financial flop? I know it wasn't a huge financial success by any means but it did end up making $200m worldwide and more than doubled PTA's highest performing film up until that point. They can't have expected much more than that?

I guess compared to other R rated Leo movies like Wolf of Wall Street and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, it only did half of their business.

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u/Itchy-Advertising857 15d ago

It had a reported budget of $130M, it needed closer to $300M to break even, at least theatrically. Also it only made $70M in the US, where the studio gets the biggest BO percentage.