AllHailKeanu

Yeah kinda wish War of the Rohirrim had this vibe. My brain is still struggling to process anime style art and animation on a LOTR story.

He’s the hottest anyone has ever imagined him here.

Chris Pine has talked about how every movie like this needs to make a billion dollars or everyone thinks it’s a loser. Star Trek can’t do those numbers. The 2009 Star Trek movie made $368M in 2024 numbers adjusted for inflation. Paramount can only make Star Trek movie film releases if they’re okay with numbers maxing out around there. Which no one is and the stars are too expensive now.

It was the most expensive movie of all time at the time due to all the practical sets. In 1995 it cost $175M plus another $100M in marketing. The budget alone is about $336M in today’s cash. Really shows how budgets have ballooned that $300M+ is sort of normal nowadays for bigger movies.

We had an independent video store I loved and my first small glimmer of capitalism and competition was when a blockbuster opened 1 mile down the road from them. They just kind of gave up immediately. Didn’t change any policies or compete against blockbuster in anyway. And sure enough a year or two later they were gone.