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I make 3D stuff for your eyeballs. Mostly here for Grok.

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@thatstarwarsgrl That’s a lot of babies.

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@GormenghastWest @damespjuffy Play it for a teenager who’s into current rap and see what kind of reaction you get. It’s unc rap.

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Fight the Power might be regarded amongst the corniest rap songs of all time. BLM couldn’t even blow the dust off that one.

Walk this Way could work, but how much of that would be Aerosmith influence? Bust a Move is fun and it’s precisely one of those songs that’s frequently used to establish an era. Maybe something from De La Soul or Tribe Called Quest could’ve worked.

The story about Running Up That Hill is probably pure PR. Kate Bush and that song weren’t forgotten to time. That song made many soundtrack appearances throughout the decades and has been covered at least a half dozen times by popular artists. They might not have expected it to chart, but they had more than an inkling it was going to be their needle drop moment for that series.

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@GormenghastWest @damespjuffy Try this exercise. Come up with a rap song from the mid to late 80s that you think could have been inserted into Stranger Things and would have had even a fraction of the impact on young people as Running Up That Hill or Master of Puppets. I’m really curious what the answer is.

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The conspiracy around Tupac’s and Biggie’s murders is the only topic people ever seriously talk about. Kids will listen to old pop and rock music, but think old school rappers are corny. They are right because every aspect of rap is driven by trends that date it. Kanye is at the gate of the cornfield with Chief Keef, waiting on Kendrick Lamar.

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@StuffForSisters I liked the first season. It was this rare right thing at the right time experience for me. The third season put me off and I have no interest in the upcoming season.

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Themes of the most popular songs on illmatic:

New York State of Mind: I’m a real gangster. I deal and do drugs, shoot niggas, drink moet, and I’m a great rapper. New York made me the man I am. Oh and I never sleep.

Life’s a Bitch: A lot of our friends are dead. We used to be about that thug life but now we’ve made it as rappers and we’re all about money.

The World is Yours: New York Sucks, but I love Queens. I love my daughter. Life is hard, and it makes me sad to think about my friends who don’t have money, but I got money and I fuck bitches on tour and that makes me happy.

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If this movie does 750 million it will be a bigger loser than Supergirl for the studio. Based on Oppenheimer, I don’t think it was far fetched for the studio to convince themselves a Nolan movie based on the Odyssey could make 1.5 to 2 billion or possibly more. You can see those expectations when you look at what is going on with this movie.

They cast Zendaya and Tom Holland. Neither can open a movie on their own but in the last Spider-Man movie they managed nearly 2 billion together. This looks like the studio trying to buy insurance. God knows late career Matt Damon isn’t opening a billion dollar movie on his own.

Same with casting Travis Scott. That’s 100% a cynical move initiated by a producer. I don’t believe for a second that Mr “I don’t have a smart phone or use email” had a clue who Travis Scott was until he was cornered and pitched the idea by some producers who were worried that they couldn’t hit their revenue goal without getting someone cast to attract the “urban audience”. Producers are sneaky fucks. They probably even convinced Nolan it was his idea.

Nolan is getting at least 20% of gross starting from the first dollar. He might’ve even managed to negotiate a couple extra points because this production seemed like it couldn’t lose. You can be assured some of the actors are as well, no less than 4% possibly up to 10% total.

IMAX sales are great, and the studio will get more dollars per ticket, but it will drive their overall percentage down on gross because they have to pay IMAX corp on top of the exhibitor for every one of those admissions. This could be a disaster. They seem to have convinced the audience they really need to see it in 70mm 1.43:1 IMAX. The problem is that there are very few theaters in the world with that capability. I’d have to travel 124 miles one way to get that experience and I live in a major metro. The result, IMAX is sold out for a week and a half, and standard screenings have plenty of seats opening day. The longer people wait the see it, the more likely they don’t see it at all.

International revenue will be higher than domestic but the studio net will probably be lower than domestic. In some foreign markets their percentage is significantly lower than domestic IMAX.

At 750 million total box office, the studio would net something in the 100s million. VOD, streaming and physical sales aren’t going to make the movie profitable in that event.

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Even though I’m still not a soccer fan, I think this World Cup has been a good thing for the world. Let’s do it in North America again in 4 years.

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@Tweetoleon @AshGreyson The break even on this movie is far higher than 750 million. 750 million would be a catastrophe. I’m sure the studio was looking at something in the 1.5-2 billion range.

The IMAX push on this movie is ultimately going to bite it in the ass at the box office.

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No. Ignoring the culture war component, based on historic box office and even the best case opening weekend prediction, it’s not going to have stronger subsequent weekends like Obsession or sub 35% drops over multiple weeks like Oppenheimer. There’s too much working against it. There’s huge overlap in the audience that will be choosing between Spider-Man or the Odyssey the following weekend, and Spider-Man is going to win out most of the time.

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It’s been this way for a long time, at least in Chicago. When I was young, CPD had unmarked gang TAC units that seemed to do nothing but shake down young guys they saw driving around. If they saw a carload of young guys, didn’t matter if it was a college prep lacrosse team in shitbox Subaru with no stereo, they’d get pulled over.

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I see this and I’m old. Many now twenty somethings had about 10% of their lives, their most formative years, stolen from them over a cold. They weren’t able to do any of the mundane coming of age shit that older people fondly reminisce about. They sat in their bedrooms for the better part of two years staring at iPads. Any anger, entitlement, or resentment they might show older generations is completely justified based on that alone. It’s a small wonder that the anachronistic media they’re being fed hasn’t sent them into a physically violent rage at the realization just how thoroughly they have been robbed.

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You’re missing a few components.

Nolan gets 20% of the box office gross from the first dollar.

At least a couple of the actors with significant roles are also getting points on gross box office. Call it 4% conservatively.

The Odyssey presales are heavy on IMAX. IMAX corp has a rake on every ticket. Universal will get more dollars per IMAX ticket vs standard, but it’s less than 50% of the IMAX box office.

I think Universal internally was hoping for a 2 billion dollar box office when they greenlit this. It’s probably not even profitable at 1.2 billion.

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@dotsonc He’s certainly responsible for at least a few highly overrated movies. His most ardent fans can’t seem to agree which of his films are great and which are mediocre. None of his films rank in the AFI top 100. I’m not sure he could get an entry even if the list was expanded to 200.

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Did they actually change the article or just add the note about your response? The article as is, isn’t about how you are sexualizing robotics. There is one paragraph that’s criticizing the nature of your marketing videos followed by a paragraph of concerns about remote operation that opens with a really dumb sentence that uses the phrase “kink shame”.

I don’t think it’s a particularly interesting or well written article. But content wise, I think it’s fair to include a paragraph that’s critical of the nature of your marketing and another outlining concerns about remote operation.

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@japan_nobunaga Distance doesn’t matter. Time is all that matters.

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While I agree to some extent with this sentiment, I don’t think that the issues with the job market are necessarily the fault of any specific generation. It’s endemic and being perpetuated by millennial HR and middle management, and even GenZ “founders”.

The tech giants have created a corporate bureaucracy of pillars, leadership principles, OKRs, KPIs, bar-raisers and half-assed agile and scrum implementations that has poisoned the entirety of business down to the smallest companies through an industry of management training. There is a delusion that they can hire their way into a high performance team and ever increasing revenue without putting any effort into developing talent or building the workforce they have. Companies of all sizes are placing the expectations of trillion dollar companies on their candidates and workforces without the capital or benefits.

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@shortmagsmle No, but she can get things off the top shelf for Spider-Man.