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Suzy Koller shouldn't be going anywhere
I like Renner, but I don't think he is ESPN material.
Being honest, I'm pretty salty about JVG. Dude was just entertaining, and he knew the game obviously.
Hard disagree. I find Van Gundy insufferable.Being honest, I'm pretty salty about JVG. Dude was just entertaining, and he knew the game obviously.
One of my favorite moments of his. Dude just said stupid #### to get a reaction. Breen barely keeping it together
After all, what will drunken Joe Namath do now?
Schill some rip-off Medicare advantage plan.
That was enough to make him quit drinking.
BUT I HAVE TO CALL TO VERIFY MY ZIP CODE!!!!
What even is ESPN material at this point?
Their two biggest stars are Stephen A and McAfee.
Fair enough.
Isn’t that basically what McAfee is? I know he’s not technically Barstool but he seems to basically have the Barstool approach. Ultimately, the entire financial dynamics of all entertainment are totally messed up right now and the corporations running everything now want to slash costs wherever they can regardless of anything else.
I think so, yes.
I figure ESPN figures they are better off paying big money to the top top drivers of eyeballs, and filling in elsewhere with fresh, cheap faces. I think there's a good chance they are right.
I would just say this is happening everywhere in entertainment. Warner Discovery to Paramount to Netflix, 2023 has been the year of slashing costs. Corporations finally started to say “hey I thought at some point streaming is supposed to be profitable, right?”. The fact is everyone raced head first into streaming with no real plan to make money, they only had a plan to grow an audience. That idiotic approach is now coming back to bite them in the ***.
The funny thing is, ESPN is notorious for paying their talent horribly. It’s a running joke in the world of sports entertainment.
Turner absolutely owns their *** for basketball. Shaq, Charles, Kenny and Ernie are probably the greatest sports talk teams ever assembled. Sometimes I’ll watch them and not even watch the game.
And ESPN has Kendrick Perkins
Anyone that will work for cheap and get ratings.
What? Guardians is like the 2nd biggest film of the year. Over 800 box office I think. I remember reading the little mermaid did well too.
Most of the Marvel movies have been disappointing recently, making money but less and less. They aren’t the cash cows they were.
It’s kind of reminiscent of the beginnings of the internet. In the ‘90s people who should know better were pouring stupid money into any venture with “.com” in its name. Many of these had no coherent business plan.
Little mermaid struggling to break even. Still not there yet and probably won't make it. Guardians 3 did well as a movie but not as a marvel movie.
It’s already grossed over twice its budget. Do filmmakers expect ALL blockbusters to go over a billion now? The pandemic might be sociologically over with, but some of movie-watching trends borne of 2020-21 are still in force.
It’s made half a billion. No way is that break even.
I bet it’s marketing budget was equivalent to the cost of the movie itself.
Which is like half of what they expected. It’s a not a good sign for future investments in these live action movies. Just like how recent Marvel dips indicate that future investment in Marvel won’t have the expected returns. The market is all about future expectations and it looks rough right now.
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I don’t disagree there but the whole movie industry needs to recalibrate expectations. People aren’t gonna go back like they used to.
And the story around Indy is that it’s a lukewarm opening- not what they hoped for. Absolutely expectations and spending need to be readjusted.
Basically every other part of Disney is seeing cuts; the fact that Grim Squeaker came for ESPN is no surprise. Lucasfilm is the only one left untouched; their hour is coming sooner rather than later.
You might want to watch this video GB. Since this time last year, the Mouse has lost about $900 million. With the bomb that will be Indy 5, that figure will leap over a BILLION easily. Guardians only did well due to good will with the franchise, and even at that still underperformed. Disney has been pumping out
for the last year and no one is going to see it.
There wasn't one person at LucasFIlms who piped up and said, "DIal of Destiny??" :cringe:
There’s only 3 Star Wars movies as far as I’m concerned. I saw Phantom Menace and like Kramer said, “I’m out!”
The budget is half the cost. Marketing and theater take also factor in. They need about $750-800m to break even.
