Mystery Topic of the Day: Massopotatoe

#1

So after seeing you guys rush this game in bullshit blabbering even though there is nothing to talk about in the last 2 years, here is something for your noodle to scratch:

I came across this tidbit about a sci-fi movie and thought I’d share this weird ass mystery.
The film Edge of Tomorrow has a over blown advertising expense of 100 million dollars (US or whatever it is listed on Wikipedia), explain why Warner brothers would expense this much for a film like this when the actual budget to produce the film was $178 million in total. That means 78 million was used to produce the actual film…sounds about right for a sci-fi film, correct? In-line with Alien I’m sure.

So did a huge amount of this money just go into the ass end of a failed r&d? Like did someone try to make a selfie app on this franchise? Did they 3d print a popcorn bucket that cost a shit ton ?
Where did the advertising budget go to?

Union trades speak a lot of grey areas to me. My guess is that they pulled a shit ton of money out to promote this film and used it on another less popular films that they had a hand in creating.

Discuss!

100 millions $$= 100 really large mansion homes in a suburb. LIke …do the fucking math.
Do the trade magazines ask? No.
Do the union trades spend? Yes
What they do with that money? It ain’t advertising.

#2

No. Advertising is among the most profitable industries. As such, it is very expensive to advertise. It is a well known fact that film budgets spend half of it on advertising alone.

What does advertising cover?

Aside from ads on prime time television and websites such as YouTube, Twitch, etc., it includes billboards, commercials, actors interviews (they get paid for that independently of the film revenue), etc.

Why is it so expensive? Because it yields results. Is akin to what making music videos is to music artists.

#3

Have you seen those Ads on youtube from Rayban where it starts off with that ditzy model saying “Meta , search blahblahb” thats exactly what you’re talking about. They schedule ads on repeat day after day andd the costs run them thousands of dollars.

But thats one commmercial that isn’t supposedly worth 100 million.

To me they spent it the way Alien Romulus did on a very vague Augmented Reality App technology where there was that big Alien Head on a building? Remember that? But nobody had access to the App which was developed, and all we got in the end was a stupid video. But it did cost LOTS of money to make the app .lol!

I just call it Money Laundering success without having to explain themselves.

#4

Is not. But a campaign of multiple replays is going to be a few millions, and that’s just one outlet. There are thousands of outlets and is not just one country/language the film is going to be advertised in.

Also, this is one example of how ridiculously high advertising costs can be

The cost of a Super Bowl commercial carried the same price tag in 2024 as in 2023: $7 million for 30 seconds of air time

Why? Because they can charge it. Economics 101. If people are willing to pay that for something, businesses will charge that.

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#5

Was there any special attention paid to the fact that the origins of the film was that of a Japanese produced manga?

I paid attention to the book and trying to find its availability. Eventually I think it is still available on Amazon.
But as one would know if they are educated enough on modern manga, that book productions can be expensive to produce but not actually announced as to how much it actually costs.

In asia, the operations costs could be colluded. Meaning altouhgh produced in Japan, there could be smaller studios in the mix from other lesser costing countries in asia like thailand.etc.

#6

I dunno, but USA using content from Japan isn’t something new. The Power Rangers were based of a Japanese TV Series, down to even using footage from it for the first few years.

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#7

Even Marvel hires help from Malay and Thai, and Philipenes to help produce parts of comics. That is not new.

Like creators who get their stories into Shonen Jump are often bidding to get their stuff published and eventually they will get their day in the sun and would reach out to any country in asia to help get it out on time.

Edge of Tomorrow, i’m not sure about the publicaton history so i might assume that they self-published.never got a bidding from anyone but a major hollywood studio and then eventually wound up being a Tom Cruise produced flick. As you might not have known Tom Cruise has had talks in the past with comic book creators such as Rob Liefeld. But asides from him, there could have been many others.