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‘Beetlejuice 2’ Once Got Pitched to Stream on Max but ‘That Was Never Going to Work’ for Tim Burton; He Lowered the Budget to Under $100 Million to Get It in Theaters(variety.com)

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Reddit is better.@dormi.zone
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He made us choose between watching it with rude strangers in public and not watching it at all.

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jdeath@lemm.ee
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you could probably arrange to watch it with nice people in public. or just wait until it hits streaming in a couple months?

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Reddit is better.@dormi.zone
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You mean after everyone’s done talking about it? 😐

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Default_Defect@midwest.social
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Every fan of Tim Burton’s work that I know constantly talk about all of his overrated movies all of the time, you’ll be fine.

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BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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The fact that 100million dollars is a low budget movie now somehow is mind blowing to me.

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlOP
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$100 million isn’t considered low budget in Hollywood.

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cabbage@piefed.social
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I guess it might be relatively low for the sequel to a cult classic made by a famous director and with a star spangled cast. A lot of directors probably wouldn’t limit themselves when they know they don’t have to.

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whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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It seems like the money laundering that has infested classical art has inevitably spread to movie and TV seasons, over 100 million budgets what the fuck

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlOP
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Sure, movie budgets can get ridiculous these days, but making a movie is expensive.

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whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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I guess so and inflation threw off my intuition since the rate keeps accelerating. Cleopatra in '63 for 31 million would be over 301 million today in inflation adjusted dollars, and avengers in 2012 at 220 million would be over 318 million today. It’s staggering how much less a dollar is worth today than just 12 years ago.

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reddig33@lemmy.world
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Takeaway message — if you want your work shown in theaters, don’t sell your production to Warner-Discovery.

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlOP
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I’ll do you one better - if you want your work to see the light of day at all, don’t sell your production to Warner-Discovery, as it might get cancelled for a tax writeoff.

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flicker@lemmy.world
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I really enjoyed it.

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cabbage@piefed.social
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I’m sure I’ve seen better comedies, but I really can’t remember when.

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