NOTE: Morbius died on the way back to his home planet.

!okbuddyriordan@literature.cafe

There’s no way it actually cost $500m to make.

You’re right, there isn’t. The real, reported budget is $180 million.

The reason it needs to make $500 million to break even is because the studio doesn’t get the full box office gross - 50% of it goes to the theaters (because they don’t show movies for free).

So it needs to make double the budget, plus an additional hundred million or so, to cover the marketing costs, putting the real breakeven at around $450 million.

When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.

Theater DCPs are notorious for having insane amounts of DRM - you’d need a quantum computer to decrypt it, and even if you could there’s invisible watermarks all over the screen identifying the exact location and time that the movie was playing in, the studio would immediately find out and sue you for everything you have. Not to mention the theater that played it would lose their license and go out of business.

So, for the most part, movie theaters are the only instance where DRM actually won.

But, to my knowledge, there have only been two movies that got their DCPs leaked, and even then, they were old movies released decades ago. One of them is a war movie, and the other one is an animated movie - PM me for details.

Wow, I just realized the joke works two ways: “despite your directions” could also mean that OP didn’t post an instance-neutral link.

Well, @Reef@lemmy.ca, I made it, despite your directions.

Which version?

You could say he’s a Huge Jacked Man.

!bookracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I thought this article was talking about PseudoTV Live, but this is new. I might check this out.

It’s his wife, Pepper Potts.

Works from lemm.ee.

Paging @MimicJar@lemmy.world to let them know.

!smugideologyman@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!coaxedintoasnafu@lemmy.dbzer0.com

has sony even released a superhero movie in the last 20 years?

• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
• Venom (2018)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
• Morbius (2022)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
• Madame Web (2024)
• Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
• Kraven the Hunter (2024)

Don’t worry, that poster will be coming closer to the release date.

Why didn’t they just download the data dumps? Are they stupid?