How long is the Dark Universe going to last? If it does move

>>83777237
Well, it's making crazy money in Asia so maybe they'll keep it going to see if they can turn it around with an actually decent movie next.

>>83777237
>tfw /tvpol/ told me this movie was going to slay WW
top.fucking.kek

The last fast and the furious film grossed $235 million domestically as of last week on a production budget of $250 million. It has ended up grossing $1.3 billion because chinks, spics and euros have terrible taste.

>this will make less money than Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

kek

>>83777317
Go back to the Blacked Panther thread, you faggy dicklet.

>>83777317
>shitting on a fun summer pop corn flick that always delivers what it promises
>>>r/kino

>>83777300
>it's making crazy money in Asia
Seriously? Last I read is that it's got toxic WOM over there, too.

>domestic
Thing is, the Mummy is doing pretty well internationally.

That said, I'd give the Dark Universe four movies. If they don't have a good hit in four movies, it's over.

>>83777381
I've read it had a record opening in South Korea and the highest opening for Cruise in China.

>>83777300
I'm so sick of fucking Hollywood idiots ignoring that Americans don't want to spend money anymore because no one in Hollywood gives a shit about a good movie anymore.

So instead of changing, they basically go; FUCK YOU AMERICA, WE WILL MAKE MOVIES FOR CHINA

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>>83777367
>paying money to see a movie specifically designed for eurotrash and enrique

>>83777237
Why is some unknown broad on that poster instead of Tom Cruise, the only reason anyone would watch this movy?

>b-but RedditTomatoes it's shit!!
It's just an action flick

>>83777452
Capeshit and Star Wars (especially Star Wars) primarily do well in the US.

>>83777452
Well, I'm not American so I don't give a shit about this. We had to deal with tons of shit movies because Americans were willing to eat it.

>>83777381
I've read this nowhere but here. Everyone is saying it's doing good overseas. In fact, it might be his biggest yet.

>no Brendan Fraser

What were they thinking?

>>83777367
>fun summer pop corn flick
fun action movies don't have to be completely retarded and pointless. I would argue that constantly upping the stakes and making things over the top takes out any sort of tension from the film, making it far less enjoyable.

>>83777317
Back in high school, a Filipino friend of mine told me he would regularly ship out rip dvd to his cousin in the home country. He would send whatever block buster he could have downloaded at the time, including the Transformers movies, assuring that every shitty movie for us is a great movie for them compared to their local production. If they wanted deep plotted movies, they'll see smaller movies from their home countries that doesn't need a big budget.

>>83777420
>If they don't have a good hit in four movies, it's over.
the WB strategy

>>83777526
Fat, balding, and doughy looking.

>>83777517
I'm talking about Hollywood, they see how people in America don't spend money to see a movie anymore because it's all remakes, sequels, reboots. So instead of trying to make new good movies, they pander to Asian markets.

>>83777424
Here in South Korea, the Mummy was the only thing showing during the day today. I think they bought out the theaters, because Wonder Woman and other films only had like one showing at night when I checked.

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We're literally saving cinema.

>>83777593
Your friend was a cunt, he should have send only the most kino of kino to his peps.

>>83777610
Hollywood is about money, not people, or ideals, or anyting else. They'll go wherever the money is.

>>83777237
>DCEU survived "Batman vs. Superman" and "Suicide Squad"

>anons are actually worried that DU will last.

>>83777660
> Transformers
> Not kino

>>83777598
It's not a bad strategy. You really can't expect to just make an instant hit. If you look at TV shows, usually the first season is a mess where they're still trying to figure out what they want to do with the show and what tone they're going for and what works and what doesn't work and so on. To these studios, these expanded universes are an investment bigger than just one movie. If you can get audiences hooked and coming back every year (or multiple times a year) for your series, that's worth a few initial flops created while your series is still taking its baby steps. Remember, Marvel survived some really shitty early movies before they got to Iron Man.

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But it's doing well, actually.

>>83777704
Those made a shit ton of money though

>>83777610
desu that's like every industry now. like the one i thought wouldn't do it was anime but now they're trying to revive all this old shit that should've stayed dead. maybe animefags feel differently since i don't watch anymore, but when i take a peek, that's what i see.

>>83777704
Suicide Squad made good money though (which is still a pretty big mystery to me).

>>83777610
>Asia has more people so Hollywood realizes that it's profitable to pander to the Asian market by making dumber more culturally translatable films
>American audiences begin to lose interest in pointless emotionally dead movies, and stop going
>Hollywood sees Americans are going less and less as Asian markets increase viewing, causing an endless feedback loop where worse and worse movies are created to pander more and more to Asia

Jeez, what a depressing thought

>>83777732
KEK American want no part of that movie.

>>83777803
This is how it happens, folks.

Reminder that Chinks literally eat feces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet

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is there actually any kind of movies they DON'T like

>>83777927
Movies starring black people.

>>83777803
at least chinks hate niggers, sandniggers and spics and thus the only movies hollywood will produce will only have white and asians in them

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>>83777381
damn

>>83777927
Movies that have non-whites/non-asians/japanese in them

#NoBrendanNoMummy

>>83777732
Yeah just seen it took 30% more in its first day than wonder woman did in its first weekend, yet somehow wonder woman is a runaway success and the mummy is a flop?

>>83777979
Because those articles talk about domestic business.

>>83777941
But chinks love the Fast and Furious series.

>>83778007
I thought that was mostly spics and eurotrash?

>>83778001
Do the studios not get the money from the international box office?

>>83777979
Domestically it's bombing HARD.

>>83778055
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-china-box-office-20170503-story.html
>‘The Fate of the Furious’ becomes highest grossing film ever in China

They should have made this with Brendan fighting Dracula and other monsters instead of that sequel with jet li that no one wanted

>>83778059
Yes, not as a big cut as they do from domestic, but they do, and the Asian market (mainly China) is more and more important. The thing is that American media is still having trouble dealing with it.

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>>83777732
wtf why don't these people read rotten tomato before going to see movies

>>83777526
you do realise that brendan frasier killed his career on purpose so he wouldn't have to pay alimony

Pirates 5 and Transformers marketing has been more by something like 3x in China compared to US.

>>83778144
So is it actually bad for the studio or just the american media being narcissistic/not wanting to admit the power lies elsewhere now?

>>83778157
>Rotten Tomatoes
I honestly don't understand why anyone would use this as a metric. It's the most useless statistical tool possible.

>>83778138
That's what they should have done instead of the Mummy 2. They should have just dropped "The Mummy" from the title and had him fighting other Universal monsters. They could have gone back and renamed the first one "Universal Monsters: The Mummy." We would have accepted it and loved it.

>>83778263
A little bit of both. Stronger domestic business means they get a bigger part of the cut, but making a billion overseas like the lastet F&F movie is obviously not bad at all.

>The Mummy is detested by both critics (now down to 18% Rotten) and audiences alike with a B- CinemaScore and 70% total positive score from Screen Engine/ComScore’s PostTrak. By the way, that latter number is lower than the 76% earned by Paramount’s Baywatch.

BASED CRUISE

>>83777424
China

But I thought undead shit was a huge no no over there

>>83777237
I liked it

>>83778407
I think it's the western depiction of ghosts and black magic they banned. Maybe this movie has neither.

>>83777759
>maybe animefags feel differently since i don't watch anymore, but when i take a peek, that's what i see.
We hated GitS, we laugh at anyone who still thinks Akira will happen, and we're furious about Cowboy Bebop.

>>83778407
>But I thought undead shit was a huge no no over there
only if its a spooky skeleton

>>83778432
Me too

>>83778583
He's talking about in general, not live action adaptations.

>>83778102
But that's not true? The Mermaid is the highest grossing film in China. It made almost 600 million there. No Hollywood movie has even cracked the 400 million meter. also Fate barely did better than furious 7.

>>83777777

>>83777237
>come see Tom Cruise play Tom Cruise in the new Tom Cruise movie starring Tom Cruise as Tom Cruise.

>>83778519
Why would that be banned?

>>83777452
Jackie gave us so much. It's only fair we give back a little.

>>83778157
I checked Rotten Tomatos and still went to go see it. Pretty okay flick desu.

>>83777237

How percentage do they make from foreign box office? It may save this film but they will shit their pants if it's completely bombs domestically and scrap the upcoming films

>>83777317

No. We watch F&F etc ironically, because we picture the absurdity of those films as the actual US lifestyle.

>>83778872
Less than domestic and Domestic is 50%.

>>83777312
I'm a fat autist who spends a ton of time every fucking day here, and I don't recall anyone saying that.

>>83778755
I've no fucking idea.

>>83778911

So 40. 30%. What are we talking here? I can't believe it made so much.

>>83778992
Nobody really knows the actual numbers, because if everything worked as it was reported, most movies barely made a few millions in profits, and yet they're still making movies and the budgets get higher and higher.

>>83777237

>Doing worse than the scorpion king

Good thing Asia made them a bit of cash. But can it make enough to off set the shit Domestic before Transformers comes out and obliterates it?

>>83777237

>wow dumbest lore

>>83777731
Yeah, but those movies aren't linked together in continuity

>>83778399
a B- is detested? o_O
I mean, I'm right there or nearabouts ratings-wise, but it's mostly because I thought it was very middle-of-the-road.

Although I also liked it wayyyy more than the Brendan Fraser trilogy, which everyone I run into seems to have loved.

>>83778245
Funny, Because Pirates 5 is bombing in China.

The idea of the expanded Dark Universe for Universal monster properties isn't a bad idea but choosing to make it some kind of action crime team or whatever their supposing sounds f****** retarded could easily be made better if it just all share the same universe or not necessarily that they have to interact I can certainly overlap but it's not like forced like werewolf in Dracula team up to kill Satan

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>>83779910
>censoring yourself
Faggot

>>83778157
RT is cancer m80

>>83779984
He's a shill, they're all about not safe for work shit.

>>83779984
No, phone poster.

>>83779910

I would have made them all mid to low level budget and R rated. Showing the world getting steadily darker and more fucked up with each subsequent film and had the big "team up" movie be Castlevania

Is Asia really going to save this movie?

So, I kinda want to watch some Universal Monsters movies since this one is out and I never had aside from the Brendan Fraiser movie. Is the Bluray boxset worth it?