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    More than likely, Paramount is engaging in face-saving PR BS in a bid for some damage control; or, as you posit, they're counting on other streams of revenue to recover most of the costs, eventually. To be sure, there must be a lot of creative accounting going on this and the industry as a whole, but none of it negates the box office results. Claims, announcements, and copes are cheap; the real tell on whether or not Paramount (their project bankrollers and shareholders) are truly happy when it is all said and done will be if they green light a sequel and/or a high-profile spinoff of some kind, and if it/they actually get made. As always, time will tell, but I won't believe anything until it is irrefutably real. This isn't to cast aspersions at the movie's writing, acting, directing, or production values as, by all accounts, it is decent and effective enough at what it's trying to accomplish, but nothing that will make any lasting impact on anyone but the most ardent fan of the source material, if that. It is just the fickle nature of entertainment, and plenty of brilliant, ground breaking movies -- D&D:HAT definitely isn't one of them -- have failed to find an audience in their theatrical runs, only to find redemption and a modicum of success as well-loved cult classics. Will this film find such a sunset?...
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    I think they should match in tone, hue and saturation; of course, they should not in refractivity and reflectivity... so, same but different?...
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    When you want them, they're nowhere to be found; when you don't...whatcha'doin'?...I'm gonna make myself comfy right here, can I help?...
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    Over 2 weeks since release and, at 130.46M worldwide proceeds and down to 6th place - 7th domestic (Box Office Mojo, IMDBPro, 4/15/23), this thing is still over 200M away from breaking even. I think it's safe to say that it's done and will lose a considerable amount of moolah for Paramount... likely, they knew it was going flop, which is why they chose to release it when they did.
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    You win for the best post...
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    Macross figures

    mechaninac replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    Never got any direct response from KC but did get a shipping/tracking email from PayPal, and it's already through ISC New York. Now to wait for the Dana Sterling to release... it's been an even longer wait (09/2020... sheesh! ). I understand that the coof threw a monkey wrench into the works; however, I don't think I'll ever place another preorder with them and sit things out until stuff is in stock; their lead times have become atrocious.
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    The break-even industry standard is 2.5 x budget; therefore, at 150M, the movie needs to make 350-375M, profit would require something close or above 400M. Could it reach those thresholds theatrically?... anything is possible, but it will require staying power.
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    Realistically speaking, John Wick 4 will have far more staying power, and Super Mario Bros premieres this Friday -- likely to dominate for weeks; so, despite an above expectation opening weekend and positive reviews in general, the likelihood that D&D:HAT will break even during its theatrical run is dubious and profitability is highly unlikely. Time will tell, but it does not look good.
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    Macross figures

    mechaninac replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    I have not received any communication from them, so I took it upon myself to reply to the original preorder confirmation email and send a message through their website. Now, after 1.5 years, to wait some more...
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    Phew! Thank heavens for another easy, regret free, pass; never cared for the WacDonalds clown of Valkyries... great news for those who do like it though. Saving my pennies for the VF-5000G.
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    They should do The Iceman as well, to go with The Maverik; after all, 90+% of the work would already be done... it's a no-brainer. BTW, went on their site and the figure isn't listed for preorder, yet. I WILL NOT do Fakebook.
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    They're also likely trying to tie her to perfecting what would eventually become Snoke and the sequel trilogy, which, in my opinion, would be a bad idea; regardless, the studio is dead set on legitimizing that trainwreck, so my opinion, and that of millions of fans, is irrelevant.
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    Yeah, he's on the money. Other than The Bad Batch (I've read that Andor was good too, but it didn't attract enough viewers to justify its existence... bad timing following crap like BoBF and Kenobi), everything post TLJ has cultivated one singular outcome: apathy from the majority of long term fans, and failure to attract, in any significant numbers, the "modern audience" (individuals who, by and large, care nothing for the franchise past their Twitter echo chambers, and don't buy merchandize) that they've been obsessed in securing since Disney acquired Lucas Film. Quite an anti-achievement, actually... to turn a license to print money cultural phenomenon into a moribund streaming service content with ever diminishing returns.
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    Yeah, as they say: hunger is the best sauce... Star Trek fans have been starved of anything edible for so long that even a reheated bowl of instant ramen will look and taste like a feast.
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    100% This! He was also one of the duo (double the hackery) who wrote Solo, and we all know how that money losing stinker turned out. His parsing of the cancellation as an extended, pie in the sky hiatus, just strikes of heavy doses of copium and hopium being injected directly into the bloodstream... lots of that going around.
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    I'd hazard to say that fans of the now classic movie -- its characters, story, and quality -- are the true winners.
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    You don't want to corrupt the favorable memory of what TNG became by the end with NewTrek... leave that stuff for dead last.
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    This!... Inquiring minds want need to know.
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    They also look backwardly anachronistic... as though the shipwrights and engineers had suddenly adopted a nostalgic late 23rd century design ethos. It just does not jive with the aesthetic progression one would expect or that makes sense.
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    An thus CN retains its ignominious title of The Reigning CalArts Network/Dumping Ground...
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    No, just NO.
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    If the idea of a Alien series had been announced in the late 90s, early 2000s -- heck, maybe even as late as 1st 3rd of the 2010s, I would've been very excited for the prospect of it; however, with the absolute dearth of creativity and talent among writers and producers since the middle of the last decade -- to say nothing of how these same individuals handle just about every franchise they touch as platforms first and entertainment/escapism dead last, I'm far less sanguine on this being anywhere near passable, let alone good. Here's hoping that I'm dead wrong; alas...
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    I placed my preorder on the 5th and got charged the very next day; must've been a weekend related delay thing. I'm sure the charge would've been assessed the same day if it had been any week day, instead. It's all good, and a very miniscule upfront fee to secure what appears to be the absolute best deal around.
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