One of those bad movies that still has an audience to go see it type of deals
Definitely has a huge audience. I'm not a gamer. My DS is. He told me that Minecraft has around 200M monthly players. That's a terrific audience base.
There’s plenty of bad family movies that make money. Not a knock on its performance, just a subjective opinion of the movie itself.
I find it interesting that Minecraft was made with a budget of $150,000,000. Disney is always saying the CGI is what runs up their movie budgets. The Minecraft movie is mostly CGI. Why is it the WB can make the movie for a million less than TWDC made Snow White? I feel like TWDC needs to get a handle on how much they pay for CGI. Even worse, Disney's CGI usually doesn't even look convincing.
Easier to run up the bill when your previous movies have made a lot of money. There’s a quote I saw recently about movie budgets and I’m going to paraphrase it poorly but the gist of it is that you can’t overspend on a movie that costs $10 mil bc there’s a lot more stress about keeping the budget under control. Once you hit $200 mil? People aren’t paying as much attention. You’re getting closer and closer to having a blank check. You don't necessarily know where the money is going. You can overcharge more. And you're not going to find many occasions where filmmakers go back and say "please give us a smaller budget this time, we don't need all this money".
Man was I wrong. May beat Barbie for 3-day?
IP fueled nostalgia sells well at the Box Office. Storytelling need not apply.
Thank you for confirming that story need not matter for a good time to be had. Meta references like Chicken Jockey, Technoblade, “I Am Steve”, YouTubers being cast in a film, etc .. sell incredibly well.
Wouldn’t doubt the possibility. Epic’s CEO recently downplayed talk a little bit, but doesn’t mean they can’t be convinced.
