Space Jam A New Legacy - From Black Panther to Bugs Bunny

[Kari Kamiya]

I think the movie exists as a shit post.

If Disney couldn't even make a proper meta-commentary on itself with WIR2, there was no way Warner Bros. had the actual foresight and cleverness to pull it off, because otherwise they wouldn't have released Ready Player One.

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

That reminds me.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3bX7f1qitA

But Space Jam: A New Legacy wasn't a cartoon, it was a movie. Bugs Bunny, he's... WAAAAAHHH!

 

[Something.]

Space Jam was fucking lame, not really looking forward to seeing the new one.... But I did recently sign up for the unlimited plan at my local movie theater so I might go see it if I smoke a phat bowl before.

 

[The Last Stand]

Space Jam: A New Legacy is just a soulless cash grab for the NBA and existing WB franchises to sell HBO Max. They have the nerve to base it on the original.

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

Because it works on very young children and babies

The sad thing is, I can't even call bullshit on this. I remember crying like a fag when watching The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in the theater when SpongeBob and Patrick got dried out.

Kids may be smarter than we think, but that doesn't mean they're not still retarded.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

But Space Jam: A New Legacy wasn't a cartoon, it was a movie. Bugs Bunny, he's... WAAAAAHHH!

It wasn’t a movie it was a cheap cash grab. It still a perfect reason for everyone to cry.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

The sad thing is, I can't even call bullshit on this. I remember crying like a fag when watching The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in the theater when SpongeBob and Patrick got dried out.

Not to mention all the kids who cried when Ash turned to stone in the first Pokémon movie.

Manipulation at its finest and we're all suckers for it.

 

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Wait….where is R. Kelley with a new hit single that will be played at every middle school assembly for at least two years?

I guess he is pissing off somewhere. Tee hee.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Also, if you’re wondering where are the “good” reviews, most of them were mainly just the same old “IT WASN’T MADE FOR YOU 40+ YEAR OLD MICHAEL JORDAN FANS! LET THE KIDS ENJOY IT!” to “I don‘t really like LeBron James that much, but I love the Looney Tunes, even though I don’t like the fact of what they did to Lola Rabbit’s design“.
It was basically left-handed compliments mixed with comments from people that still will “hate watch” this for fun.

And to add fairness, this is currently what the reviews are for the original 1996 release of Space Jam:

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The thing that really sets the original apart from this new film is that the original contains only materials from Looney Tunes and basketball. A New Legacy not only does this, but so much fucking more, making it another version of Ready Player One.

Question:

The movie is called SPACE Jam, right? Does the movie take place in space? It sounds like the entire thing is in a computer/internet world.

Interesting point. Almost like how they called the new Karate Kid movie "The Karate Kid", even though it was set in China.

Movie producers/execs are dumb.

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Fuck off, you CCP cock-loving bitch.

How much does this movie need to break even?

That's a lot of words to say "Back in Action bombed and scared the shit out of Warner Bros." (in which it only got a brief mention anyway).

NBA potentially being behind the push for a sequel/reboot to boost ratings wouldn't surprise me, though.

I actually really liked Back in Action to the point where I was kinda a superfan, at least at the time.

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

How much does this movie need to break even?

On the surface, one would think a movie just needs to make the exact amount of money that went into making it, but as we know, it's more complicated than that, since theaters take a piece of the pie, too. The most common formula is profit = gross/2 - budget, but even then, that often doesn't account for the amount of money spent on marketing, not to mention how merchandise can help put a movie in the black, which is especially important for movies as expensive as Space Jam 2

At any rate, the budget for this trainwreck is $150 million, like I mentioned earlier. Not including marketing, it'd need to make $300 million to turn a profit in ticket sales alone. Of course, this ignores viewers watching on HBO Max (subs of which get the movie for free), and it doesn't count merchandising profit.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

The sad thing is, I can't even call bullshit on this. I remember crying like a fag when watching The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in the theater when SpongeBob and Patrick got dried out.

Kids may be smarter than we think, but that doesn't mean they're not still retarded.

What's ironic is that WB actually subverted this with The Iron Giant. Sure, he's showing signs of life at the very end but he was dead as fuck for a good five to ten minutes and I was fucking DEVASTATED.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

On the surface, one would think a movie just needs to make the exact amount of money that went into making it, but as we know, it's more complicated than that, since theaters take a piece of the pie, too. The most common formula is profit = gross/2 - budget, but even then, that often doesn't account for the amount of money spent on marketing, not to mention how merchandise can help put a movie in the black, which is especially important for movies as expensive as Space Jam 2

At any rate, the budget for this trainwreck is $150 million, like I mentioned earlier. Not including marketing, it'd need to make $300 million to turn a profit in ticket sales alone. Of course, this ignores viewers watching on HBO Max (subs of which get the movie for free), and it doesn't count merchandising profit.

We have to understand also that Black Widow's box office dropped 80% this weekend. I also have no idea how China is going to make of this film. Even after Cena backpedaled on his "Taiwan is a country" comments, F9 still plummeted over 80%.

China Box Office: ‘F9’ Falls 85 Percent Amid Weak Reviews, John Cena Controversy

The Universal tentpole is projected to finish its China run with $211 million — a big number but just a little more than half as much as 'The Fate of the Furious' earned in China in 2017.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[The Last Stand]

We have to understand also that Black Widow's box office dropped 80% this weekend. I also have no idea how China is going to make of this film. Even after Cena backpedaled on his "Taiwan is a country" comments, F9 still plummeted over 80%.

China Box Office: ‘F9’ Falls 85 Percent Amid Weak Reviews, John Cena Controversy

The Universal tentpole is projected to finish its China run with $211 million — a big number but just a little more than half as much as 'The Fate of the Furious' earned in China in 2017.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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China is very sensitive.

 

[Dr. Pasquale]

We have to understand also that Black Widow's box office dropped 80% this weekend. I also have no idea how China is going to make of this film. Even after Cena backpedaled on his "Taiwan is a country" comments, F9 still plummeted over 80%.

China Box Office: ‘F9’ Falls 85 Percent Amid Weak Reviews, John Cena Controversy

The Universal tentpole is projected to finish its China run with $211 million — a big number but just a little more than half as much as 'The Fate of the Furious' earned in China in 2017.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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It's pretty common for a movie's box office to drop quite a bit in the following weeks, the majority of filmgoers generlly watch it during release week.

But still, we're in the age of the coof, everyone was dead certain that these dumb ass blockbusters were going to be the thing that brought movie theaters back. If I were a movie exec that decided to shelve a 300+ million dollar project for 2 years just to try and make better box office amidst covid restrictions and my profit margin dropped by 85% in the second week i'd be searching for a high enough building right now

 

[Kari Kamiya]

What's ironic is that WB actually subverted this with The Iron Giant. Sure, he's showing signs of life at the very end but he was dead as fuck for a good five to ten minutes and I was fucking DEVASTATED.

Think it's once been mentioned the ending was made because test audiences were too sad and there must always be a happy ending in family films.

 

[BrunoMattei]

It's pretty common for a movie's box office to drop quite a bit in the following weeks, the majority of filmgoers generlly watch it during release week.

But still, we're in the age of the coof, everyone was dead certain that these dumb ass blockbusters were going to be the thing that brought movie theaters back. If I were a movie exec that decided to shelve a 300+ million dollar project for 2 years just to try and make better box office amidst covid restrictions and my profit margin dropped by 85% in the second week i'd be searching for a high enough building right now

There's multiple factors: COVID, fuck China and all that, but frankly the genie is out of the bottle and the general public wants to watch movies at home now. People typically want to stay home, avoid other people, avoid paying through the nose for tickets and popcorn and soda. They want the convenience of seeing a movie at home.

The writing was on the wall and it was very slowly happening with the window of movies being released on video ever-decreasing (I remember back in the day that it was typically a year before the movie was finally on video but now pre-COVID it was 2-3 months). Hollywood just got caught with its pants down with COVID and are trying to make whatever profits they can.

The era of 200-300 million dollar blockbusters is over. Heaven forbid that Hollywood has to make smaller budgeted films where they can't money launder as easily.

 

[Fat Tub of Lard]

We have to understand also that Black Widow's box office dropped 80% this weekend. I also have no idea how China is going to make of this film. Even after Cena backpedaled on his "Taiwan is a country" comments, F9 still plummeted over 80%.

China Box Office: ‘F9’ Falls 85 Percent Amid Weak Reviews, John Cena Controversy

The Universal tentpole is projected to finish its China run with $211 million — a big number but just a little more than half as much as 'The Fate of the Furious' earned in China in 2017.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Not to mention, Space Jam 2 stars a black guy, and we all know what China thinks of black people. I can imagine some Chinese government official going, "Get that nigger off the screen!" Or the Chinese equivalent.

 

[The Last Stand]

Not to mention, Space Jam 2 stars a black guy, and we all know what China thinks of black people. I can imagine some Chinese government official going, "Get that nigger off the screen!" Or the Chinese equivalent.

They wouldn't show it.

Oh, I was right.

Oddly, the “Space Jam” sequel is not currently scheduled for a release in China — Warner Bros. didn’t respond by time of publication to the question of whether it would be — but it bears the sanded-down, quirk-free character of the global film industry for which the country increasingly sets the terms. (As founder of the co-producing SpringHill Company, James also stands to benefit from whatever success it reaches in the global market.)

 

[Oats12345]

China is very sensitive.

No shock. Everyone should know this by now after the president of China ban Winnie the Pooh simply because people form a different country were comparing him to said bear.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

They wouldn't show it.

Oh, I was right.

Honestly.

How can LeBron shill the CCP when they don't even plan to show his film in China?