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First reviews for the Emoji Movie (take a wild guess!!!!!!)

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Chris R

Member
Father_Brain said:
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Please tell me this is on Netflix or Amazon Prime
 
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hellomyavatarisarhino

Neo Member
The sad fact is that this movie will at least break even. I checked the budget on this thing, and apparently it's "only" 50 million dollars. While that's an obscene amount of money for a movie about smartphone cartoon faces, it's still about 50% less money than similar projects such as The Secret Life of Pets, Angry Birds, and Sing (which had budgets of $75 million dollars). Also, I can't see any hidden budgets on a project like this (unlike films like Batman V Superman, which had announced budgets of $250 million but actual budgets closer to $400 million) or expensive reshoots (like Ghostbusters).

If we do the rule of "the marketing budget is the same as the cost of the film", we end up with a total investment of $100 million. Let's be generous and add in more marketing budget and filming budget for a total investment of $130 million, all of which is carried by Sony due to their secondary financial partner backing out. Since the studio takes 60% of domestic ticket sales and 40% of international ticket sales, Sony only needs to make about $120 million dollars domestically and $120 internationally to break even. Obviously, the exact math is much more complex to figure out, but this gives us a rough idea of how things would work. This means that the movie could make roughly $120 million less than the Angry Birds movie and still not lose money.

Unfortunately, math like this means that crappy movies will continue to be financed, as the risks of failing are low and the potential benefits are high (maybe they'd get a $500 - $600 million box office smash!). Fortunately, since Sony put all their eggs into one basket for this trash for generating pure profit (not just breaking even, but putting them in the black for the year), there may still cause plenty of shakeups in the upper echelons of the corporate structure at Sony Films. We can only hope...
 
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Oersted

Member
hellomyavatarisarhino said:
The sad fact is that this movie will at least break even. I checked the budget on this thing, and apparently it's "only" 50 million dollars. While that's an obscene amount of money for a movie about smartphone cartoon faces, it's still about 50% less money than similar projects such as The Secret Life of Pets, Angry Birds, and Sing (which had budgets of $75 million dollars). Also, I can't see any hidden budgets on a project like this (unlike films like Batman V Superman, which had announced budgets of $250 million but actual budgets closer to $400 million) or expensive reshoots (like Ghostbusters).

If we do the rule of "the marketing budget is the same as the cost of the film", we end up with a total investment of $100 million. Let's be generous and add in more marketing budget and filming budget for a total investment of $130 million, all of which is carried by Sony due to their secondary financial partner backing out. Since the studio takes 60% of domestic ticket sales and 40% of international ticket sales, Sony only needs to make about $120 million dollars domestically and $120 internationally to break even. Obviously, the exact math is much more complex to figure out, but this gives us a rough idea of how things would work. This means that the movie could make roughly $120 million less than the Angry Birds movie and still not lose money.

Unfortunately, math like this means that crappy movies will continue to be financed, as the risks of failing are low and the potential benefits are high (maybe they'd get a $500 - $600 million box office smash!). Fortunately, since Sony put all their eggs into one basket for this trash for generating pure profit (not just breaking even, but putting them in the black for the year), there may still cause plenty of shakeups in the upper echelons of the corporate structure at Sony Films. We can only hope...
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Pets made a billion.

Minions are worth billions.

Emoji will be happy if WWE studios cofinances the sequel.
 
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GabeTheGrouch76

Member
I don't think this film will be a success. It won't be an assured bomb, but I'm pretty confident that the film will just barely break even at best.

Sony's continued to be dogged by a string of domestic flops at the box office, and The Emoji Movie's universally negative reviews assuredly make sure that the film will likely have to rely entirely on overseas grosses to make a profit. Moreover, Sony Pictures and former financing partner LStar Capital (who helped fund The Emoji Movie) also split ties recently, so Sony will have to take the full brunt of any financial losses that may happen from this film.

In addition, the last animated film I remember that got such a universally negative reception was "talking twerking Rob Schneider polar bear movie" Norm of the North. While that was a film made on a significantly cheaper budget ($18M) and released by a smaller studio, it didn't change the fact that the film failed to make its money back, in thanks due to its poor reviews and word of mouth. (That film was reportedly supposed to get two DTV sequels, but they have yet to show to my knowledge....)

Furthermore, there's also been a lot of competition this summer too--in terms of animated films or family-targeted films, Emoji Movie will have to make a foothold against the better-reviewed Despicable Me 3 and Spider-Man Homecoming (distributed by Sony themselves). That's to say nothing of very well-received general releases like Dunkirk and Apes as well.

EDIT: Another positive review from El Nuevo Dia (site is Spanish). RT percentage is at 6% now (2/35 pos. reviews)

Oersted said:
Pets made a billion.

Minions are worth billions.

Emoji will be happy if WWE studios cofinances the sequel.
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Pets didn't make a billion. It made $875M.
 
Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie

Member
lol that savage as fuck Metacritic quote got me laughing for a good 5 minutes. I love it when they do it, the one for Warcraft was absolutely amazing as well.
 
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louiedog

Member
The small-scale achievements in this film are a model worthy of admiration; In terms of the balance that can be achieved between creativity and commercialization in a production that seeks to generate family entertainment.
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Did a marketing robot write this fresh review?

I was at a party with a person who worked in PR for one of the big beer companies and every time the subject of beer came up she sounded just like that.
 
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Magwik

Banned
alfredofroylan said:
Headphones users beware. Chris Stuckman's review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XO5i59wUg
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It broke the man.

Also I can't help but think that the premise of the movie could have actually been done really well if it served as a commentary on society and how expressing our true selves within it is looked down upon.
There is actually a tangible hook that you have to conform to being meh to get ahead and continue in life.
Why didn't Sony just hire me.
 
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DrForester

Kills Photobucket
Bold Prediction:

Patrick Stwwart only participated to intentionally win a Razzie award and will attend the awards ceremony in a Poop Emoji costume to accept his Worst Supporting Actor award.
 
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The Scollard

Member
Toa TAK said:
Why didn't he call it Thor: Ragnarok?


Also I don't know who the hell that guy is but he has a new subscriber. I was dyin'
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He got famous for his association with The Emoji Movie for doing an hour-long frame-by-frame analysis of the trailer, and then another stream where he counted down to the Emoji Movie while spinning 15 fidget spinners and dabbing ever 60 seconds.
 
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Armadilo

Banned
ThLunarian said:
My fiancee's daughter wants to see this movie and my fiancee is lamenting having to go see it. I kind of don't want my future stepdaughter to see it, but it's tough because my fiancee is not used to disallowing her kid to see things that are made for kids. I'm not sure how to bring it up, or if i even should.
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It's just a movie. A bad one it seems but just a dumb kids movie. I don't understand why this is so hard to just let it be. If she wants to watch it, watch it and be done
 
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ElBoxyBrown

Banned
GabeTheGrouch76 said:
I don't think this film will be a success. It won't be an assured bomb, but I'm pretty confident that the film will just barely break even at best.

Sony's continued to be dogged by a string of domestic flops at the box office, and The Emoji Movie's universally negative reviews assuredly make sure that the film will likely have to rely entirely on overseas grosses to make a profit. Moreover, Sony Pictures and former financing partner LStar Capital (who helped fund The Emoji Movie) also split ties recently, so Sony will have to take the full brunt of any financial losses that may happen from this film.

In addition, the last animated film I remember that got such a universally negative reception was "talking twerking Rob Schneider polar bear movie" Norm of the North. While that was a film made on a significantly cheaper budget ($18M) and released by a smaller studio, it didn't change the fact that the film failed to make its money back, in thanks due to its poor reviews and word of mouth. (That film was reportedly supposed to get two DTV sequels, but they have yet to show to my knowledge....)

Furthermore, there's also been a lot of competition this summer too--in terms of animated films or family-targeted films, Emoji Movie will have to make a foothold against the better-reviewed Despicable Me 3 and Spider-Man Homecoming (distributed by Sony themselves). That's to say nothing of very well-received general releases like Dunkirk and Apes as well.

EDIT: Another positive review from El Nuevo Dia (site is Spanish). RT percentage is at 6% now (2/35 pos. reviews)



Pets didn't make a billion. It made $875M.
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Norm had no marketing and I think Star Wars: TFA was still hot at the box office. Despicable Me 3 is out of the top 5 and no longer relevant to kids so Spider-Man is it's only competition, which also had a major viewership drop off. Either this will be the weekend no kid goes to the movies or Spider-Man magically gets a boost.
 
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Toa TAK

Banned
We're all here 'aven a giggle, but honestly?

It'll probably be better than The Mummy. The true atrocity of the summer.
 
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