Yeah extremely critical support to Adam Sandler for getting his friends paid big and paid vacations by scamming film studios into making his awful movies.
The thing is, it's not even a scam. His movies make money (fucking somehow?), so the studios are getting exactly what they're paying for. The only people who lose out are consumers and film workers who don't want to manufacture shit even if it nets them a paycheck.
I think it's one of those deals where the people buying the movie aren't doing it for themselves. Whenever I've seen anyone put one of these movies on, it's always a situation like grandma feels obligated to show a movie, and thinks a comedy isn't likely to offend or bore anyone, and that's what's available so that's what she plays. Nobody complains because that would be rude and it's not so bad you can't just ignore it.
They somehow actually lose money. Hollywood accounting is a fuck and studios will sink tonnes of money into a flop to balance out the taxes or royalites from successful movies. Adam Sandler movies generally have a way way higher budget than what you see on screen, they could make them for hundreds of millions less and you wouldn't notice. But that money is part of the budget which can be levied against box office gains to make your year end profits look better. According to Fox, Star Wars still hasn't made any profit.
I'd never even heard of some of those (what the fuck is a Blended?). If each of those movies had a budget of $100 million they'd all be well in the black, and the whole string of movies would be comfortably profitable even if their budgets averaged $150 million. The budget for Pixels is listed on Wikipedia as somewhere between $88-129 million, and if anything that's probably high for his usual project (Grown Ups 2 cost around $80 million, according to the internet).
I don't know who they are, but he has an audience.
Yeah extremely critical support to Adam Sandler for getting his friends paid big and paid vacations by scamming film studios into making his awful movies.
The thing is, it's not even a scam. His movies make money (fucking somehow?), so the studios are getting exactly what they're paying for. The only people who lose out are consumers and film workers who don't want to manufacture shit even if it nets them a paycheck.
It's kind of a huge scam where everyone is in on it and it is hard to even tell where the scam begins and ends and who exactly is being scammed lol
I think it's one of those deals where the people buying the movie aren't doing it for themselves. Whenever I've seen anyone put one of these movies on, it's always a situation like grandma feels obligated to show a movie, and thinks a comedy isn't likely to offend or bore anyone, and that's what's available so that's what she plays. Nobody complains because that would be rude and it's not so bad you can't just ignore it.
They somehow actually lose money. Hollywood accounting is a fuck and studios will sink tonnes of money into a flop to balance out the taxes or royalites from successful movies. Adam Sandler movies generally have a way way higher budget than what you see on screen, they could make them for hundreds of millions less and you wouldn't notice. But that money is part of the budget which can be levied against box office gains to make your year end profits look better. According to Fox, Star Wars still hasn't made any profit.
Good points on the fuzziness of Hollywood accounting, but a lot of his movies -- even the shit ones -- do make good money. Check this out:
I'd never even heard of some of those (what the fuck is a Blended?). If each of those movies had a budget of $100 million they'd all be well in the black, and the whole string of movies would be comfortably profitable even if their budgets averaged $150 million. The budget for Pixels is listed on Wikipedia as somewhere between $88-129 million, and if anything that's probably high for his usual project (Grown Ups 2 cost around $80 million, according to the internet).
I don't know who they are, but he has an audience.
You get that bread Mr. Sandler.