Paramount is sucking
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 8:43 pm
CEO resigns amidst a banner year.
Someone has to tell me who, in their throes of drunkenness and crunkenness, thought Zoolander 2 was a solid bet for a theatrical release.Now the industry knows why. Twelve years after Grey joined the studio, his run is at an end following a year in which Paramount lost almost $450 million thanks to flops including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and Zoolander 2.
Ah, Fox. Another studio that had a great year. Here's an article from last January describing the most anticipated upcoming films of theirs:It's unclear who'd want to run Paramount, given the level of scrutiny likely to come from the higher-ups, a situation analogous to Fox, where both James and Lachlan Murdoch are closely involved with the studio.
Is every studio exec simply a fucking idiot? Can they not do basic math and financial analyses?Kung Fu Panda 3 – 1/29 ... saved by foreign market revenue, especially China, where it did better than the US
Deadpool – 2/12 ... the only home run in this entire fucking list
Eddie the Eagle – 2/16 ... crap
The Other Side of the Door – 3/4 ... crap
X-Men: Apocalypse – 5/27 ... warmed over crap saved by the Chinese market
Independence Day: Resurgence – 6/24 ... didn't even make 2/3rds of the budget back on the domestic market, yet again, saved by foreign ones
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates -7/8 ... slightly better than breaking even
Ice Age: Collision Course -7/22 ... same as ID2
A Cure for Wellness – 9/23 ... released in 2017
Trolls – 11/4 ... semi-respectable performance
Why Him? – 11/11 ... semi-respectable performance
Assassin’s Creed – 12/21 ... sucked, foreign market kept it from being a complete bomb
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 12/25 ... semi-respectable performance
Keeping Up with the Joneses – Undated 2016 ... couldn't crack $30M worldwide on a $40M budget