>Alcon Entertainment, having been hit with significant losses due to the muted box-office performance of Blade Runner 2049, said today that it is instituting a round of layoffs.
>Alcon characterized the move as a modest streamlining and consolidation of its operations to become more efficient.
>Costing $155 million to produce after rebates and tax incentives, the futuristic sequel, which was released domestically by Warner Bros., went on to gross $260 million worldwide, and initial estimates were that it would result in a loss of about $80 million.
The only reason this didnt wipe out Villememe out was because of arrival his career basically depends on that dune movie
Elijah Brown
She's really cute
Nicholas Allen
thats a trap m80
Cameron Thomas
More capeshit for me! Yay
Dominic Robinson
You think you that makes it worse?
Christian Ramirez
his other movies didn't turn a profit?
Thomas Campbell
>260 minus 155 equals negative 80
hollywood accounting rules
Jayden Smith
>she
Alexander Sanchez
Villesoyfags BTFO
Austin Wilson
Well they said it would happen
They should thank their lucky stars they're still in business at all
Noah Jones
Hey, Hollywood pedo rings dont come cheap, and that extra money isn’t going to be listed on the budget.
Aiden Sullivan
Yay, more capeshits and sequels.
Christopher Adams
>“When Denis Villeneuve first showed Blade Runner 2049 to Ridley Scott, he wasn’t sure exactly what he had. But he knew he had something. He had spent months paring an hour and 15 minutes off his initial, four-hour rough cut of the film – a belated sequel to Scott’s own monumental science-fiction/film noir hybrid, about a detective hunting lifelike androids in a desolate future Los Angeles.”
>“By the time of that test screening, nothing else seemed dispensable. And though Scott would later grumpily describe the 163-minute version as “way too f------ long”, saying he would have trimmed another half-hour from it, the studio executives were more warily upbeat.”
>Villeneuve recalls one of his producers’ gut reactions word for word: “The lights came up, and he turned around and said, ‘We’ve just made the most expensive art house movie in cinema history.’”
>“Let’s just say it would not be a good idea for me to make a movie like that twice,” he chuckles, in mellowly accented English. “When you’re working on a film you’re in a bubble, and it was only when I came out that I realised we had made a monster.”
Star Wars for Adults
Sebastian Wilson
Denis already made 5 classics.
Jonathan Green
Scott is such a hack, Jesus Christ
He made alien covenant in the same year
William Baker
What I don't understand is how will he pull of Dune then, isn't that an even more niche subject than Blade Runner? Blade Runner atleast has some recognition in the general public, while no one knows shit about Dune. I really don't see how that could be a financial success, even if the budget will not be that high
Logan Thompson
>while no one knows shit about Dune.
Literally what?
I'd wager Dune has a bigger fanbase than Blade Runner ever did, especially among boomers.
Dune's had movies, tv shows, books, games etc
Daniel Morris
They will pander to women and gays unlike Blade Runner
Anthony Jones
its over. pack up hollywood and any semblance of kino from now on. plebs have ruined everything. get ready to praise nigger cock 24/7 and here's why you'll like it.
Liam Gray
He fired millions
Ayden Bailey
No way Legendary lets Villeneuve make Dune with a decent budget or at least without a heavy hand and producers constantly cutting and watching him
Aiden Wright
>he thinks studios get 100% of the box office >he also thinks marketing costs are included in the production budget
Julian Lewis
>Studios don't take 100% box office >No marketing budget you sure are a retard
Joseph Allen
To be fair he didn't grumpily describe it as "way too long", he was half laughing when he said it but nowadays journalism doesn't actually check the source. It was a half jokey answer to the journalist asking him why it didn't do so well.
Nicholas Ward
No, it's not. It's Ana de Armas. She's a girl (female).
Ian Sanchez
I really believe that American cinema is beyond saving. There hasn't been a successful good movie in years. Capeshit is a malignant cancer.
Jaxon Myers
Worth it.
That was a hill worth dying on. It's only going to be more crazy relevant as time goes on.
Now where the fuck is that 4 hour cut?
Oh, and Ridley can retire now. I think I'm done holding out for one last classic from him. I want to see that Blomkamp Alien5. Even if it blows, we'll at least know Ridley had nothing better up his sleeve.
Christian Bailey
Yup. To everything.
Thomas Ramirez
Definitely not Maybe it has more obsessive fan types but it definitely doesn’t have more widespread recognition I gaurantee I could go around before the new movie was even announced asking people if they had heard of Blade Runner before and I would get like 90% Dune would be like 30%
