Nickelodeon making a live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie, with M. Night Shyamalan directing.
Nick Executives: "Sure, he's never made anything that would make us think he would get this adaptation right, but...what could possibly go wrong?"
Answer: A lot...a f***ing lot!
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1n 1976 the toy company Mego Corporation was offered the chance to make toys for an upcoming science fiction film and passed on it, and thus the deal went to Kenner. That upcoming film ended up being Star Wars which made Kenner 100 million dollars in 1978 alone. Mego Corp itself would go out of business in 1983.
Nintendo and Sega had discussions with Sony in the early 90s about working with it in creating new consoles. For numerous reasons (including a lopsided business deal that caused to former to go with Philips instead), it didn't work out and the entertainment giant would go on to create its own line of consoles with the Playstation, a series so successful it helped lead Sega to get out of the console business entirely, and dominated Nintendo in sales (even its own home country) for over a decade.
Kodak helping to invent modern digital cameras and then very little with it (as to not hurt its traditional film cameras) until it was too late makes it one of the biggest mistakes in valuing short term gains over long term survival.
Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 1, 2022 17:14:17 GMT -5
The recent film The Northman reportedly cost $150 million.
A film about vikings? Yeah, that seems like a reasonable investment for a studio right now.
A film about vikings written and directed by Robert Eggers (The Wytch, The Lighthouse) and starring talented-but-not-a-draw actor Alexander Skarsgard? That seems like something you should definitely tell the director "you can have $30 mil and that's it.".
Sure enough, it's going to be one of the biggest bombs of the year. And that's a shame, because it's actually really good (if deliberately slow paced).
You never let them hold you down You jump up and take the crown Then proceed to hold it down You win, hands down
Speaking of studios making bad calls, how many studios decided to pass on Peter Jackson wanting to do Lord Of The Rings before he got the deal with New Line?
Count me in.
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Speaking of studios making bad calls, how many studios decided to pass on Peter Jackson wanting to do Lord Of The Rings before he got the deal with New Line?
Speaking of New Line, they got their first big hit when every other studio passed up on a movie based off of a cartoon series in 1990.
Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Aug 1, 2022 17:32:04 GMT -5
IBM using off the shelf parts to build the PC which lead to them losing all control over the architecture. IBM not getting any sort of exclusivity deal for MS-DOS, enabling Microsoft to sell the OS to clone PC Producers. Digital Research deciding against working with IBM on the PC. Yahoo executives deciding not to buy Google for $1 billion. Nintendo deciding to stick with cartridges for the n64. Bernie Stolar telling people that the Saturn was not Sega's future, killing it off in the west when it still had some hope of turning things around, burning the third parties who were still working on software so badly that they didn't come back for the dreamcast. Atari sitting on the 7800, post Jack Tramael takeover, letting Nintendo take over the US market and leaving Atari with a dated library when it finally saw release and little third party support.
Speaking of studios making bad calls, how many studios decided to pass on Peter Jackson wanting to do Lord Of The Rings before he got the deal with New Line?
Just Miramax. Harvey Weinstein initially wanted Jackson to make a trilogy, consisting of The Hobbit and a two-part adaptation of Lord of the Rings. When he couldn't get the rights to The Hobbit, he tried to bully Jackson into cutting the two-part Lord of the Rings down to a single two-hour movie, going so far as to say that if Jackson didn't do it Weinstein already had Quentin Tarantino's agreement to take over.
Good god, can you imagine that movie?
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Speaking of studios making bad calls, how many studios decided to pass on Peter Jackson wanting to do Lord Of The Rings before he got the deal with New Line?
Just Miramax. Harvey Weinstein initially wanted Jackson to make a trilogy, consisting of The Hobbit and a two-part adaptation of Lord of the Rings. When he couldn't get the rights to The Hobbit, he tried to bully Jackson into cutting the two-part Lord of the Rings down to a single two-hour movie, going so far as to say that if Jackson didn't do it Weinstein already had Quentin Tarantino's agreement to take over.
Good god, can you imagine that movie?
I remember reading the original plan.
Eowyn would've been Boromir's sister, Saruman and Helm's Deep would've been cut as well
During the height of of the Game of Thrones popularity
In Australia it was shown on the pay tv service Foxtel and they put It in their expensive movie tier package.
But for those that didn’t want to get pay tv installed just to watch the series could get something like a season pass on iTunes or something similar for a lot cheaper.. and then Foxtel and HBO signed a new deal that the only way you could watch new episodes Game of Thrones in Australia was exclusively through Foxtel for a year before it went to other VODs
This led to an explosion of piracy
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Decca Records turning down the Beatles after an audition, thinking they were no different from the other bubble gum rock bands that would come and go.
Ronald Reagan turning down the lead in Casablanca.
If Decca had signed The Beatles, I don’t think they would have quite been the success story they were. After being turned down by Decca, they ended up at EMI and most importantly, with George Martin and I have always maintained that without George Martin, The Beatles would have been a great band, with George Martin, they were the greatest band. And besides, Decca decided to sign The Rolling Stones not long after, so they did all right out of it.
Despite about a million people calling themselves it, George Martin was the 5th Beatle.
During the height of of the Game of Thrones popularity
In Australia it was shown on the pay tv service Foxtel and they put It in their expensive movie tier package.
But for those that didn’t want to get pay tv installed just to watch the series could get something like a season pass on iTunes or something similar for a lot cheaper.. and then Foxtel and HBO signed a new deal that the only way you could watch new episodes Game of Thrones in Australia was exclusively through Foxtel for a year before it went to other VODs
This led to an explosion of piracy
It honestly feels like almost any media story in Australia ends with "this led to an explosion of piracy". It's absolutely astonishing how poorly handled getting media to Australia routinely seems to be, between price gouging, poor distribution, and everything else.
If Decca had signed The Beatles, I don’t think they would have quite been the success story they were. After being turned down by Decca, they ended up at EMI and most importantly, with George Martin and I have always maintained that without George Martin, The Beatles would have been a great band, with George Martin, they were the greatest band. And besides, Decca decided to sign The Rolling Stones not long after, so they did all right out of it.
Despite about a million people calling themselves it, George Martin was the 5th Beatle.
I once did a pub quiz where the question was “who was the fifth Beatle?”. There were many answers but the quizmaster was adamant that it was “Pete Best” and was shouted at by many people there as if anything Pete (and Stuart) should never be counted as they actually were Beatles rather than honorary. There’s no definitive answer as musically George Martin was the most important, if it wasn’t for Brian Epstein, Mal Evans, Derek Taylor or Neil Aspinall, they wouldn’t have even got to the studio in the first place. So any of those five being an honorary Beatle is more than worthy of the title.
Justice for the 97.
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Crow T. Robot Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Sony paying 20 million for Spiderman rights when for 25 million they could have got the lot; Thor, Ironman, Black Panther, Captain America ect ect. For context this was the 90s when superhero films that weren't Batman or Superman sold like a garlic milkshake and apart from Spiderman and probably Hulk (because of Lou Ferrigno series) the MU was not well known to non comic readers and unheard of outside the US.