Xarpolis
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Yeah, it was a huge winner.
"Mel's 'Passion of the Christ' made $612 million globally at the box office on it is $30 million budget, making it the highest grossing R-rated film in US cinemas."
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"Mel's 'Passion of the Christ' made $612 million globally at the box office on it is $30 million budget, making it the highest grossing R-rated film in US cinemas."
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There are a lot of reasons. One is that the streaming services are all competing for the same user base, so there's a race to the bottom on price. For instance. I have HBO Max, and Paramount +, and pay for neither because they were free with other things I was getting. These subscriptions aren't going to generate much revenue. When it was "You need one, maybe two streaming services and you can ditch cable/satellite" that was a compelling fiscal argument for consumers. Now, if you're going to get all the content you want you will probably need 4/5/6 streaming services, each with it's own monthly fee, and it's suddenly just as expensive (or more so) than Cable/Satellite.
The streaming services all thought it they just had a couple really "must have" bits of content (like Paramount+ having the Star Trek IP) people would pay for an independent streaming service for it. They seem to be really wrong on this one. This is why they all took their content off Hulu and Netflix and insisted on starting their own services. They're learning now that was a greedy and bad move. The closest to pulling this off was Disney just because of the sheer volume of kids-centric content (Plus Marvel, and Star Wars...) they own and even they're struggling mightily.
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The studios who run streaming services are not making money on streaming for the reasons haus lays out.
The studios who license their content to one or more of the streaming services are still getting paid for streaming, as are all the rental vod services.
The studios who license their content to one or more of the streaming services are still getting paid for streaming, as are all the rental vod services.
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Grizzlebeard
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Chukzombi
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A lot of people think it was a campy little movie that flopped. To the Christian community it's part of the Easter season the same way ten commandments used to be. Been that way for the better part of 20 years.
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I don't know anyone that watches Passion every year. I am from a Catholic family and they all saw it when Passion came out and they liked it, but they don't rewatch it like they do 10 Commandments.
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Gibson paid for the movie out of pocket because no one would fund it. It cost $45 million total, including marketing. Some would say this had a decent ROI.
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jayrebb
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And that's where his problems began. Not a single one of them got paid. The blacklist attempts after Passion went big caused most of what the media called a breakdown.
Harshaw
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DickTrickle
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uniqueuser
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Don't care about superhero movies, will never watch this dreck, just wanted to say the degenerate who plays the Flash has one of the all-time most punchable faces.
Seriously, just look at the dumb fucking mug on that mook. Every time I've seen this image across the Internet I'm gripped by a nearly uncontrollable urge to slap the shit out of him, and anyone not compelled to do the same deserves a similar beating.
Seriously, just look at the dumb fucking mug on that mook. Every time I've seen this image across the Internet I'm gripped by a nearly uncontrollable urge to slap the shit out of him, and anyone not compelled to do the same deserves a similar beating.
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Chukzombi
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Tuesday is the day they release this kind of stuff. its always been Tuesday, all the way back in the VHS days.