WT 2022 What's Love Got to Do With It

https://variety.com/2021/film/global/lily-james-shazad-latif-first-look-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-1235129740/

DISNEY LEAD METAVERSE CHARGE virtual reality future?

See Guardian.

DC MARVEL supervillains to creators? How they avoid sharing their billions

An object lesson in capitalism!

Global scale conglomerates are difficult to contest - read this in-depth Guardian feature for an analysis of how the creators of many of the stories/characters/scenes driving the multi billion superhero dominance generally receive little ... or nothing.

CONVERGENCE - SMARTPHONE CAMERA FILMS GET NEW FESTIVAL

Guardian reports on phone-filmed movies getting their own London International Smartphone Film Festival.

This shouldn't come as any great surprise. Smartphones - especially the iPhone - are being widely used as an element of TV/film production, especially for action sequences. They're seen as enhancing the intimacy of such scenes, removing the size challenge of standalone cameras.

'Soderbergh shot his 2019 basketball drama High Flying Bird on an iPhone 8 with a few modifications. He used much of the video footage exactly as he had shot it, whereas in his previous film, Unsane, he had used a special effect plug-in afterwards to recreate the look of old film stock. The American director is reportedly such a fan of the digital camera that when the British director Christopher Nolan challenged him to return to film, Soderbergh said it would be like “writing scripts in pencil”.'

WT latest franchise The Borrowers

NBCUniversal have exercised their first look deal to pick this up with WT producing - see Deadline announcement.

How $100m tentpoles make money!

$100m+ budget movies are known as tentpoles for a simple reason: no company can afford too many consecutive flops at this level.

So why, as Elberse argues they all should, do the big 5 all focus on tentpole or (as Elberse calls them) blockbuster productions?

Remember too that the prints & marketing spend is typically about the same as the production budget which is why, with cinema's cut factored in, box office needs to hit triple the production budget to start making money!!

This excellent stephenfellows feature breaks it down.

So - the true costs of a $100m tentpole actually go MUCH higher.

How on earth do they make money then?!

Well, these days they have a wide range of revenue sources and distribution/exchange outlets.