[–] QueenFanUSA (2079) 5 hours ago
The reality is that TLK is a MUCH bigger animated property than BATB and always has been. That's a fact.
QFU you know that is NOT a fact but a subjective evaluation and comparison of the two films.
I'm sure that was factored into boxoffice.com's prediction that it would hit 650 million domestically.
WHO built a subjective qualifier of comparative animation property into a Box office number Queen? Who?
Why would an analyst arbitrarily build in that type of multiplier? On top of that you can't find any situation where that "rule of thumb' has been applied before. There is no precedent for such an abnormal financial production planning. How about this Rule of Thumb, "The law of Diminishing Returns".
From reading what you type on Box Office it is pretty clear that you've never grasped anything meaningful about finance, marketing, advertising, business operations or PNLs. The profitability of TLK has NOTHING to do with BATB and vice versa. The profit models and projections for TLK have NOTHING to do with BATB. The two productions are NOT multipliers of each other.
That's like saying that WB/DC's Justice League should make 2x Disney/Marvel's the Avengers. Justice League was very much indeed a bigger known commodity than The Avengers 8-10 years ago.
100 million more than BATB is the minimum that was expected given that the original TLK's domestic gross was almost double what BATB's was and has remained a huge part of the Disney machine in merchandise, videos, Broadway shows and theme park presence/attractions.
Except that just because more was spent on TLK you can't automatically guarantee more dollars will be collected. TLK2019 cost so much more than BATB because of the heavy, heavy reliance on CGI. One other aspect of Disney films that ups their cost is that Disney spends successively more on talent now days. BUT! There is no one dollar to two dollar guarantee of investment return for marquee talent.
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ultravioletx (10212)
5 years ago
"That's like saying that WB/DC's Justice League should make 2x Disney/Marvel's the Avengers. Justice League was very much indeed a bigger known commodity than The Avengers 8-10 years ago."
Agreed. The audience can change a lot in 20+ years. Back in 2008, Dark Knight was making nearly 2x of what Iron Man was making. It doesn't apply any more ten years later. There's no metric that shows TLK is still a bigger crowd-pleaser than BATB domestically over 20 years later.
Also, I still think BATB has a mother/daughter effect that TLK doesn't quite have.
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