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Tom Cruise's ‘Digger’ Will Lose $250 Million | Exclusive (www.thewrap.com)
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[–] 32 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's an arthouse movie with a major Hollywood franchise budget. There's pretty much no way this would actually make financial sense. But you have to give them credit for taking a creative risk. That's far too rare these days.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Matt Damon on Hot Ones discusses a reason why these movies don't make the money they use too, which is sad because those are what I really enjoy most.

    https://youtu.be/yaXma6K9mzo?t=841

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  • [–] 12 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Thanks for sharing! That was very insightful!

    For the folks who cannot/don't want to open it,It's because in the past, things like DVD sales were a massive second chunk of revenue, but now most of the revenue needs to be made in the theater.

    I do wish he spoke a little more about it though.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago*

    I didn't think of that. So a basic, boiled down synopsis of the clip, Damon says:

    With the advent of streaming, movies that weren't expected to be block busters and make most of their money in theaters, relied on a second wave of revenue from DVD sales which made the film more lucrative, and more viable to make the more artsy movies (or as I see it dramas, which are my preferred genre).

    edit: haha, shit didn't notice your spoiler

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