Why are vidya movies still a thing? Hasn't anyone learned

Meme: The Movie when

>>387005662
"My name is Pepe. I'm a meme. The problem is I'm a dead meme."

And the whole movie revolves around Pepe trying to revitalize his popularity and recruit other memes on his adventure.

>>387005583
It's about money, nothing more.

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>>387005808
pepe is always relevant he's like the 4chan hello kitty

>>387005808
pepe wouldn't actually be in it but the villain would conveniently be a frog trying to rule the meme kingdom

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>>387005808
>pepe is dead
God, finally

>>387005857
Spending money? Because these movies are flopping hard.

>>387005583
The Streamer Movie when? About funny guy+internet friends who try to make it big by playing games but thing happens that turns their life upside down!

>>387006205
Just because you wish they were failing doesn't make it true. Angry Birds grossed $350m with a $70m budget

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>>387005583
>Emoji Movie couldn't even break even

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>>387005808
>pepe is dead
Helloooo reddit

>>387006306
Yet the emoji movie barely broke even.

>>387006013
It's fucking tragic that pepe is more of a mascot for this place than Yotsuba these days.

>>387006357
$70m gross and $50m budget, it made sony $20m
your hate has clouded your judgement bruv

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ITT: WE MAKE MOVIE PLOTS BASED OFF VIDYA

>>387006562
>Doesn't include marketing costs

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>>387006458
>still posting the frog
stop pretending to not be new, you can't hide yourself newfag

>>387006612
IN A WORLD

>>387005583
I swear to christ if it's by sony.

>>387006465
See >>387006562
It made almost 20m on a 50m budget, it was a success by any measure

>>387006615
budget includes everything dumbass

Who will play the watermelon?

>>387006630
OH NO CIRNO DON'T DIE!

>>387006465
But it broke even, and that's all that matters.

These movies are being made because they're safe investments. Everyone knows what Angry Birds is, or what Emojis are, or what Fruit Ninja is about. You don't have to spend truckloads on advertising trying to tell people what the movie is about; they already fucking know.
So you spend a couple million on it (way less than you would for a regular film adaptation of another IP), get some B-list animation studio to shit it out for cheap, and you put it on the market. Once it hits China, you're guaranteed to make bank because those dumbfucks will watch literally anything.

>>387006520
You can thank gookmoot for killing off Yotsuba.

But there's already a Fruit Ninja on PS4.

>>387006710
Nope, not by Sony. By the man responsible for Baywatch 2017

I can't stand movies based off an existing license. We always have to have some regular nobody the audience has to relate to. I wanna see Sonic/Mario/Donkey Kong, not some faggot who can't tell his flat ass crush he wants to bone her.

>>387006821

Idris Elba

>>387005583
>fug dog
>dog bites peepee
OUCH!

>>387006968
jej

>>387006660
WHERE VIDYA IS SHIT

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>>387006946
And now we have the cutest mascot on the front page! Consider yourself lucky!

>>387006769
LOOOOOOOL WHAT
YOU HAVE TO BREAK EVEN FOR YOUR MOVIE TO NOT BOMB YOU FUCKING SONYGGER

Reminder that we'll get our Popeye movie thanks to Sony canceling it in favor of the emoji movie.

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>>387007143
ONE MAN

>The Emoji Pop is now a meme amongst normalfags on youtube

Can we manufacture memes now? Was Kojima that fucking spot-on?

>>387006973
I have no idea what the quality of that movie is. Nobody has talked about.

>>387006630
>claim pepe's death and you are reddit
>use pepe and you are new, normally acussed of coming from reddit

>>387007363
you retard, it made 70m so that makes 20m of net profit you mouthbreating idiot

>>387008118
>70m
Not him, I just looked it up and movie mojo or whatever the fuck is claiming it made 58mil.

>>387005808
He'd most likely be with villian with the whole being classified as a hate symbol thing

>>387007376
I'm mad, it looked really good.

>>387005583
Money Laundry.

>>387005583
>in the works
is it actually in production or has a studio just optioned the rights?

>>387008305
Domestic market, +$12m globally. Go back to box office mojo and read again, please stop acting like an idiot

>>387008091
I've wasted almost 10 years on this fucking site. No matter what, you are a newfag redditor to the swarm of new underageb& that come each year.

Honestly, bitching about reddit is the only stable thing on this site. At one point, way back, /b/ made peace with fucking tumblr. We were all supposed to get a free hipster qt. This was before the hugbox explosion when it was mostly hipster girls with weird fetishes. Never made peace with reddit though. Never ever.

There is still probably art floating somewhere with tumblr-tan and green "NoPictureAvailable" anon cuddling and/or fucking. That was an interesting time in hindsight.

>>387008118
Oh my bad, I read from that post that it made 20m total from a 50m budget, not 20m more on top of the 50. Sorry bro.

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>>387009567
Jesus christ I looked it up and that whole event has a KnowYourMeme page

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/4chumblr

7 years ago. These were better days of the internet. There was still hope then.

nohopenoescapenow

The Just Dance chick was pretty qt. That's the only good thing I have to say about the Emoji Movie.

The Emoji Movie taught them that people will in fact see literal shit to be cool and ironic and brag about it on social media.

>>387007376
Sony's movie department is such a fucking dumpster fire. They haven't made a good movie in years.

>>387006520
fucking delete /pol/ already

>>387006873
They literally didn't make a profit

>>387010543
but /pol/ is /ourboard/

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>>387006520
>mfw there are probably newfags who don't know what Yotsuba is

>>387006306
But angry birds was actually a decent movie.
Emoji is not.

Also, Vidya movies are good when done properly.

MK movie is probably better than the game it was based off, silent hill is...ok(with amazing sfx and scenery), started good and went downhill on the second half.
Its sequel doesn't even deserve to be mentioned tho.

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>>387005583
I was talking about this last night with /co/.
This movie could be good IF: They got a writer who did not give a fuck.

Picture if the Fruit Ninja movie was about a gigantic homage to old Ninja movies. I think that's really what separates these movies, they can make a good movie if they just found a writer who wouldn't toe corporate culture line and instead made something that was fun.

I'm not even a little bit surprised. The explosion of global pop culture has had big effects on Hollywood. In this new climate, Hollywood knows that the only things that make money are titles that already exist in the culture's collective unconsciousness. They simply don't invest in original scripts anymore, everything is a sequel, remake, reboot or film adaption. They'll use anything. Video game titles, board games, brand names, fucking anything as long as Joe Blow will say "hey I recognize that".

FUCK YOU IT'S FOREVER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H18RUB1cxfI

This thread is full of people painfully unaware of what constitutes "profilt" and the division of revenue for movies. Emoji movie is not even close to breaking even.

>>387011142
You know as well as I do the suits wouldn't allow that. It's too imaginative and fun.

They don't have to work, they just have to make money

>>387007182
At least yotsuba is a decent daughterfu instead of this generic virgin bait garbage

>>387009946
>The raid was seven years ago
OH MY GOD IT FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY

I made the post that said "I think tumblr is the first group in existence who had a real-life casualty from a fucking internet war".

>>387011036
>But angry birds was actually a decent movie.
>Emoji is not.
The point was that vidya movies make money whether /v/ likes it or not. That idiot said
>Spending money? Because these movies are flopping hard.
And I simply proved that he was wrong.

>>387011162
>In this new climate
Vidya movies are made from fucking '90s.
Its nothing new.
get over it.

>>387006520
F

>>387011291
>Vidya movies are made from fucking '90s.
What a cooincidence, the explosion of global pop culture kicked off in the 90s.
C'mon dude. You'd have to be blind not to have picked up on this.

>>387011214
The suits don't allow most things, but they also have a history of being incredibly lazy. Which is why said writer would not need to give a single fuck about what happens to his career after it comes out.

>>387011421
It did around the '80s actually, and before that movies were one good idea and 30 rehashes of the same idea with the same succesful movie star. nothing changed, just adapted. When there are a lot of money invested movie lobbies don't want to risk a flop, they want to sell.

God fucking dammit, even in fucking ancient Rome they rehashed the same shows over and over to be sure they were liked. Artists that did something actually original(usually with eastern influences)were frown upon.
Nothing fucking changes.

>>387011421
Also don't act like you were there.
You weren't.

>>387010848
fuck off.

/new/ was and /pol/ is cancer and both deserve to be deleted. Too bad Moot was a fucking faggot and gave stormfront their board back.

I still remember when angry 14-15 year old me was laughed out of my own thread on /b/ after I made a thread bitching about "being sick of the sandniggers, whose ready for a new crusade?" 7-8 years ago. I was part of the cancer. I deserved to be mocked for my retarded, completely illogical and un-nuanced views.

>inb4 /pol/ hates stormfront
I don't even know if this argument is used anymore, but jesus they shared memes and ideas since /pol/ was born.

>>387005583
We live in a world where emoji's got a movie this shouldn't shock anyone.

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>>387005583
Remember most normies have no hobbies, women have no hobbies, the other half of the normies are not autistic enough to stick to their hobby all through their free time, so they either go to see shitty gimmicky mobile game/reboot/sequel #9 because they have nothing else to do or get pressured by their perpetual bored girlfriends to go see them.

>>387012051
I know a couple manchildren who don't appear to have any hobbies at all. What the fuck do these people do?

>>387005583
So I've struggled with this for years. Movies that seem like they shouldn't be a thing, or are critically panned yet get sequels, make a decent return on investment to warrant their creation. It's why you see really good actors taking shit movie concept gigs. Just look at David Cross' wiki. He admits that Alvin and the Chipmunks paid of a few summer homes.

It's extremely lame, but to survive monetarily in this world you have to abandon any sense of ethic.

>>387012146
Literally netflix and that's it.

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>>387005583
Some anon on here posted an awesome idea for a Fruit Ninja movie that basically turned into a homage towards chop socky movies. Of course they won't go for that, but the guy's plot synopsis was really neat.

>>387006615
>>387007363
>>387006357
It's 20mil up in the first two weeks and and that doesn't even include DVD sales and international box office

>>387011280
Hey, I'm just glad I'm not alone. I feel like most people would openly laugh at the idea of 4chan and tumblr getting along.

We didn't even have a reason to hate tumblr then. It was purely a case of silly internet rivalry. At least now one can make the argument tumblr breeds a certain ideology in certain areas. Of course, you can make the same argument here.

>>387012309
Oh yeah, that was in the /co/ thread, wasn't it? It was basically big trouble in little fruit stand.

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>>387011889
Born in '88, I guess I was kind of there.

>>387011824
>It did around the '80s actually, and before that movies were one good idea and 30 rehashes of the same idea with the same succesful movie star. nothing changed, just adapted. When there are a lot of money invested movie lobbies don't want to risk a flop, they want to sell.
Correct. The old business model used to be selling movies on star power. They would rehash the same ideas, but they at least had the balls to make up a new name for it. Now it's all about brand power, the title of the movie is everything. I'm afraid these aren't my opinions, it's a reality of holywood filmmaking. The stats back it up.

>>387006520
post porn of 404 girl

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It was actually fucking awesome and I want another to be made

>>387012440
I think that's the one. It was basically using fruit gangsters to censor graphic violence in a kid's movie.

>>387012551
Also better lore than the games.
Hopefully doesn't turn into a clusterfuck, but if you forgive the fact they axed the first 15 minutes of the movie and the pacing for the first 15 minutes is too fast, its the best fantasy in recent times, a lot better than any fantasy after the first Lord of the rings(which first half was icnredible. everything from the twin towers is just cancer)

>>387010860
The original owner of 4chinks ?

>>387012593
Oh yeah, about killing the grandmaster of the fruit clan. I'd love that. We need more inventive ideas in Hollywood.

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>>387011248

>>387012551
It was better than I expected, but the human actors were even more wooden and unnatural than the CGI Orcs which was really weird.

They also cut the shit out of it so it felt really rushed, but we'll never get a directors cut so the movie is just a clusterfuck.

>>387012551
>>387012768
Also SEQUEL FUCKING WHEN

>>387012531
yotsuba is not for lewd

>>387005662
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vGWwRF_Qc

>>387005583
they typically don't play the game or make the movie anything like the game

>>387006769
not true dumbass read up on it

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>>387005808

>Pepe starts out as fresh faced meme
>The alt-right begin using his image and tainting what he stands for. Pissing with his pants down because it feels good, man.
>He begins his journey to clear his name and remove the association by teaming up with similarly besmirched memes
>Despite his best efforts he fails and is tried for war crimes
>The last scene is him standing in front of a firing squad.
>He pulls down his pants, lets out a piss while giving a half smile to the camera.
>"Feels good man."
>Fades to black as we hear the guns fire.

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>>387014216
Pepe, in his original form, was an excellent analog for /v/. In fact, I'm sure it was a /v/ and /co/ meme before /pol/ ever even got their hands on it. He was a lazy slacker with some extremely odd habits that were either borderline autistic or symptoms of an underlying problem.

I hate what they did to him.
My only solace is that they did it to Pepe and not Landwolf.

>>387011206

People don't understand that marketing budgets aren't included in the posted movie budgets they're looking up.

They easily sunk 50-100 million into marketing. $20 million profit off movie production after 2 weeks is abysmal in hollywood standards.

This is the era where every other blockbuster is crossing the half billion mark easily, $20 million profit is bullshit to them.

>>387005583
>>387011162
IN A WORLD...

WITHOUT FIDGET SPINNERS...

ONE MAN WILL DISCOVER...

(((show argument with family, then a segment featuring a family-friendly bending CGI face Fidget Spinner)))
SPINNING...

(((pop culture references, internal monologue involving internal conflict, resolution with family, spinner tournament is shown)))

FIDGET SPINNER THE MOVIE COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU.
(((fidget spinners start dancing and acting like minions)))

>>387014507
Can we make this as cynical as the emoji movie and sell it to Sony Pictures?
I'm talking fidget spinners with the Coca Cola branding on them spinning in front of a Popeyes chicken while in the reflection of a TGI Fridays cynical.

>>387014507
That's it I'm stealing your idea and sending the script to Sony

>>387005808
pepe isn't dead, hes being kept on forced life support by phone posters who didn't save any other images, coupled with the inability to create OC

>>387015073
>>387015269
Sony already has that idea.

>>387005583
>hasn't anyone learnt that they don't work
Professor Layton would like to have a word with you.

I want a video game movie movie
a mocumentary about a film studio making a video game movie they all know is going to be bad but trying to hold onto hope that maybe it won't be all that awful

>>387010860
No more public bans when someone even mentions posting Yotsuba lewds.

so what the fuck would the movie even be about, how do they pad it to 90 minutes

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>>387005583
>people believed that capeshit was the lowest point

can't wait for the dab movie tbqh

>>387014463
Spurdo is alright.

:DD

>>387014490
Even without marketing they're still at a huge loss. Typical theater cuts ramp from around 30% for the first week to 50+% after a few weeks. Opening weekend was $24m so the studio probably got around $16m, and maybe an extra $20m from the remaining weeks. As far as international, you get even less. I'd assume the publisher's total revenue in this case is around $40m total, not including any taxes, distribution fees, marketing, etc. which are likely also over $40m. I'd expect a writeoff in the earnings report of around -$50m to -100m

>>387015861
>"This summer..."

>*music slowly builds up, shots of young child looking forlornly at scenery*

>"Tad is about to learn what it means..."

>*music stops*

>"TO DAB"

>*dubstep music blasts out while crowds of children dab furiously around a school*

>" A SUMMER ADVENTURE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY"

>*The Rock is now there, dabs at the camera while the wubbing intensifies*

>"THE DAB MOVIE"

>*fades to black...*

>"whipping and nae naeing into a theater near you... Summer 2018"

>>387015861
I was just in Target earlier today and they sell Spongebob Meme toys. They're little figures of all the spongebob reaction images, the most prominent of course being that stupid caveman one.

>>387016350
The antagonist is Cam Newton trying to stop the monster he created.

The Rock and Tad come up to Cam at the end, and out their hands in friendship. Cam is so moved he reaches for them....

Only they dab.

He falls to the ground, sobbing, blood seeping out of his pores.

Gottee.

>>387005583
I went to dave and busters for the first time recently and they had an arcade cabinet for fruit ninja. It was pretty fun, I forgot how fun that game was just for wasting time

>>387005662
Sony already started on it. I'm serious, search it up. Sony is making a meme movie.

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>>387007487
FWOOOSH ONE PURPOSE

>>387012950
the fuck is wrong with her pinky?

>>387017208
Fake microphone

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>>387017081
ONE
....
DESIRE

>>387017509
sleep tight biker

>>387005583

Out of touch Hollyjews aside, I think it's really more of an excuse to launder or move money around to other departments with deliberate overinflated projects.

Folks who work on trash bin crap like that Emoji garbage and Sony's upcoming Meme Movie really don't give a shit so long as they get paid.

Shit can bomb and producers can holler from their vacation homes, but the small fish are happy they're in-friend hooked them up with a slice of the pie.

>>387005583
You a fan of Mel Brooks? A particular movie of his has all the answers you need.

>>387017509
WITH ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

>>387018374
SETH ROGAN

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>>387006357
>Couldn't break even

It doesn't matter, it's one big ass ad placement for apps which are paid by several app companies and Sony got paid for it. The Emoji movie is a lesser risk than the Interview, the new Ghostbuster or even the Spider-Man: Homecoming

>>387017875
>Meme movie
You're joking, right?