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I barely know what that means!
I was just going with the "number crunching" in the article. If you take the production budget, add $150-200 million for marketing, and then double that figure to get your break-even point, which is what they do for NTTD, then QOS certainly lost money, and SP probably did too. I'm just assuming that EON is not regularly losing money on the movies and then increasing the budget on the next one. This can't be a compete picture. The caveats at the bottom of the MI6 article (product placement deals, etc) are probably more important than they make them sound.
But yeah, clearly, for a variety of reasons, NTTD is not in a good position to make its money back.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-best-ernst-blofeld-quotes/
I love that the list includes my favorite Blofeld line ("I've really put you through it, haven't I?"), but it sure needs a hell of a lot more Charles Gray!
It shows that delivery is everything, even with seemingly mundane lines like that.
the series. :D
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1475109/James-Bond-auditions-Daniel-Craig-Henry-Cavill-Casino-Royale-Goran-Visnjic
I think he'd be a perfect fit for it now. ;)
when it finally gets released.
He would fit the script more (actually, it probably needs someone mid-late 20s really) but I can't see him commanding the screen the way Craig did even now he's 38 years old. He'd be fine, but not up to Craig standard.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9879625/High-tech-eco-home-named-Bond-Skyfall-movie-goes-market-offers-4m.html
It seems you do know what it means -- because you zeroed right in on the expense of marketing. In addition to marketing expenses, the financing on NTTD still costs the producers. Reports have stated this has been in the amount of $1m per month. As for the past four Bond films, reportedly they DID make money, even with the expenses of marketing figured in. The films prior to NTTD did not have to endure extended pre-release periods saddling them with continued pre-release financing expenses -- and I'm merely re-stating what I've seen published re: that financing expense increasing over time before the film brings revenue -- and the additional expense of paying for marketing multiple times.
Certainly, producers and distributors and studios may regard the affected bunch of films as having been released in unusual circumstances, and still be willing to fund and make expensive movies in the future. But...as expensive ?
It is not only the pandemic which affects movie-going. The following is anecdotal, but I think it is not unique. I observe that many younger folks prefer to watch films at home, on very large flat-screens with great sound -- even pre-pandemic -- and sometimes without paying, either. Besides the aspect of avoiding payment, they get to eat, drink, smoke and to pause the film whenever they like, and re-watch portions. Combined with an anticipated increase in the use of VR headsets -- which dilute the Group Experience of Cinema many have enjoyed over the years -- this does not bode well for the cinema business. Does this cover everyone ? No ! Of course not ! But one need not eliminate ALL the customers of a business in order to render it less and less profitable and less and less feasible.
But the "number crunching" in the original MI6 article is nonsense. Their formula for calculating the break-even point, when applied to Spectre, indicates Spectre lost money or barely earned a profit. Yet later they say it had a 191% return on investment. Something's cranky there, without even getting into the $30-40 million in unexpected pandemic costs.
Heineken, to name one company, apparently paid over $35 million to be in Skyfall. Significant financing is probably being left out of that click-bait article.
I think Cavill would have trouble out-acting the wax figure of Bond in TMWTGG.
https://robbreport.com/travel/destinations/james-bond-adventure-travel-package-1234628729/
Screen Rant: Roger Moore's Bond Movies: 9 Things That Still Hold Up Today.
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-roger-moore-movies-elements-hold-today/
I can think of 7: Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me...
:x
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/inverse-daily-august-11-2021
https://screenrant.com/james-bond-quantum-solace-spectre-martin-campbell-response/
Screen Rant: GoldenEye & Casino Royale Director Would Only Return For A New Bond Actor.
https://screenrant.com/martin-campbell-bond-franchise-return-future-reaction/
Insider: Henry Cavill said he was told he wasn't lean enough to play James Bond.
https://www.insider.com/henry-cavill-was-told-wasnt-lean-enough-for-james-bond-2021-8
Screen Rant: Casino Royale Director Shoots Down Long-Held Extended Cut Rumor.
https://screenrant.com/casino-royale-martin-campbell-extended-cut-rumor-response/