It’s worth noting total Star Wars film box office is $8.7B not adjusted for inflation. Merchandise sales are double that.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Post-release)
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It’s worth noting total Star Wars film box office is $8.7B not adjusted for inflation. Merchandise sales are double that.
DarthLee
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I read TLJ had a $200m budget, do we know if they stayed in that budget or not? I think it at $1.1b as of 1/2/2018
I’m not sure what the budget was but that sounds right, $170-200M before marketing.
DarthLee
Sr Member
Oh ok, before paying for all those commercials, I have to give it to them there... I dont think you can go 10 minutes without a TLJ commercial or some sort of SW reference.
It will probably end it’s theatrical run at the end of Jan. with $1.4-$1.5B global.
DarthLee
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I remember reading that for TFA, he & Fisher made the same salary, which was still considerably lower than Ford's.
That article didn't say anything about a back end percentage, but if really be surprised if there wasn't some incentive.
I don’t think Disney offers any backend on Star Wars or Marvel.
You're absolutely right. I'm thinking that technically, all the previous six films were basically big budget independent films, with Fox distributing. That allowed better back end incentives to be offered.
May be wrong.
That’s a good point. The only actors I could see having an opportunity to wet their beak on box office would have been Guiness and Cushing.
I remember Carrie Fisher making the comment that she'd basically signed away her likeness, so they were getting zilch from any merch.
I think the line was something like, every time she looked in a mirror, she owed George Lucas $2.
I think the line was something like, every time she looked in a mirror, she owed George Lucas $2.
sztriki
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Guiness was offered 2% for script and dialogue suggestions then George offered him an extra 0.5% when the movie debutwd but by the time they wrote a paper of it it became 2.25%.
It’s in one of his early interviews. Dunno about Cushing.
MrSouthpaw
Sr Member
1) This quote of yours literally says that Palpatine's origin would have made the OT convoluted. Post 2201. Did you forget your own posts?
2) And this is a TLJ topic, I can draw comparison to TLJ at any time. That is not predicated on your preferences or necessarily even directed wholly at you.
Guiness was offered 2% for script and dialogue suggestions then George offered him an extra 0.5% when the movie debutwd but by the time they wrote a paper of it it became 2.25%.
It’s in one of his early interviews. Dunno about Cushing.
Thats right, I recall that story and heard that interview.
jlee562
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No, it's just that, as usual, you're disregarding important context and kind of missing the point of what's being said. Such as the last time you tried to pick my post apart and ended up conflating four columns of data into two, and then having the audacity to complain that I was the one who had the math wrong.
Maybe my wording was unclear. If that's the case, let me try to explain again and reiterate what I said in post #2240. TLJ has a plot that Rian wants the audience to follow, just as ESB does. The telling of the narrative of TLJ requires the audience to know NOTHING about Snoke's backstory. It's not relevant to the space chase. It's not relevant to Rey's interactions with Luke (e.g. the "Leia blames Snoke" line I pointed out earlier). It's not relevant to Canto Bight, it's not relevant to Rose.
And yes, maybe TLJ would have been more satisfying if they had thrown a line that gives the audience something. I get that criticism, and as I said, that's totally valid.
But it doesn't change the fact that Snoke's backstory isn't the thing that's moving the action forward. It's just not.
Likewise with ESB, what you initially replied with was this:
No, my argument literally makes no claim about inserting the Emperor's background into anything else but ESB. Not ANH, not the OT as a whole. I'm saying that it's not important to the narrative of the individual film.
Fair enough, but perhaps you should find space to do that when you're not quoting my posts or tagging me in your posts. It sure makes it seem like your comments are directed at me.
DarthLee
Sr Member
@jlee562
I toke the whole Snoke thing seriously, basically because of
1) the actor who played him, Andy Serkis
2) they way they portrayed him in TFA
3) how he was percieved as a Dark Lord of the Sith, He was portrayed (to me) as another Emperor
I said this before, its a shame that, as of now, the most powerful dark force user is Kylo. But we will see
I toke the whole Snoke thing seriously, basically because of
1) the actor who played him, Andy Serkis
2) they way they portrayed him in TFA
3) how he was percieved as a Dark Lord of the Sith, He was portrayed (to me) as another Emperor
I said this before, its a shame that, as of now, the most powerful dark force user is Kylo. But we will see
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MrSouthpaw
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Actors were not the only ones who got "incentives"
Some of the crew did as well on some of the installments.
Some of the crew did as well on some of the installments.
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