Re: MLP Movie - airing November 3, 2017
Have to say everything being announced about the 3rd one is sounding good.
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PaulloDEC wrote:Are we really concerned that Thor is going to steal MLP's thunder (pun very much intended)? I mean, they're pretty different films for pretty different audiences, no?
Fizzbuzz wrote:That's the feeling I get. I mean, the Marvel cinematic universe has been pretty good at drawing families in, but I always figured those were families where the kids were all at least teenagers.
Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:i am not ready for the transhumanist revolution to begin with my butt
The Doctor wrote:Looking it up, now I do think they're sending this to die.
This will be going up directly against Thor: Ragnarok on November 3.
DerFurShur wrote:Wasn't he brought in when Sony was still involved in all this? Because ever since they backed he pretty much dropped off, and Meghan went from "consulting" on the story to being the screenwriter. My guess is that he was the guy Sony demanded be brought on if they were going to be involved.
SlateSlabrock wrote:From the Toy Fair presentation:
Film-related cash flow is now part of this investment, most notably in support of our 2017 My Little Pony animated feature. Driving this in 2016, our cash spend is expected to increase to around $60 million before returning to more normalized levels.
So, theoretically, up to $20 million going toward the film this year.
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SlateSlabrock wrote:From the Toy Fair presentation:
Film-related cash flow is now part of this investment, most notably in support of our 2017 My Little Pony animated feature. Driving this in 2016, our cash spend is expected to increase to around $60 million before returning to more normalized levels.
So, theoretically, up to $20 million going toward the film this year.
PaulloDEC wrote:
Does any of this info give a sense of what the total production budget of the film might be? That's still a big unknown, right?
Soft Snow wrote:Why was there such a huge profit in 2007-2008? That is higher then any year involving FiM. That feels rather unsettling.
Soft Snow wrote:I'm curious to know why it takes $20 million to make a pony movie. An entire season, eight and a half hours of run time, costs less then $5 million to make. I'm hoping the movie will be two hours long so that is a quarter of the run time with quadruple the cost. I don't know much about how movies are made so what is the biggest sink hole for making a movie like this?
Soft Snow wrote:I just hope they do a better job advertising the movie then they did with Jem.
DerFurShur wrote:The first Transformers movie practically payed for the Hub which is what pushed Hasbro to launch all the new shows for their products.
DerFurShur wrote:Hasbro had to get the money to buy half a tv channel from somewhere and what else had made them a billion dollars lately?
Fizzbuzz wrote:The news of him writing the movie broke around the same time as the news of Hasbro establishing Allspark Pictures. As such, I guess it's possible he had been working on the movie back while Hasbro was dealing with Sony, then got dumped a while after Hasbro decided to do the movie more independently.