So sad, I hope he finds it.

NOTE: Morbius died on the way back to his home planet.

!the_pack@lemmy.world

There’s no way it actually cost $500m to make.

You’re right, there isn’t. The real, reported budget is $180 million.

The reason it needs to make $500 million to break even is because the studio doesn’t get the full box office gross - 50% of it goes to the theaters (because they don’t show movies for free).

So it needs to make double the budget, plus an additional hundred million or so, to cover the marketing costs, putting the real breakeven at around $450 million.

“Well, when the superuser does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

— Richard NixOS

The world may never know.

When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.

Theater DCPs are notorious for having insane amounts of DRM - you’d need a quantum computer to decrypt it, and even if you could there’s invisible watermarks all over the screen identifying the exact location and time that the movie was playing in, the studio would immediately find out and sue you for everything you have. Not to mention the theater that played it would lose their license and go out of business.

So, for the most part, movie theaters are the only instance where DRM actually won.

But, to my knowledge, there have only been two movies that got their DCPs leaked, and even then, they were old movies released decades ago. One of them is a war movie, and the other one is an animated movie - PM me for details.

How did you get my burner email address?

Must be Wimpy’s kid.

I could quit water anytime I want to.

S/M/L/B (Super Mario/Luigi Bros.)

That you’re out of this world?

!the_pack@lemmy.world