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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Edith probably didn't exist at all at the time.
It feels like something that would be made after the Ultron project went bad.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersSo apparently all the Marvel shows on Disney+ are getting budgets of up to $25 million an episode
. Meanwhile the four Netflix Marvel shows had a collective budget of $200 million between them.
Red Ronin. You have the cash, make someone fight Red Ronin.
Jesus Christ. I thought they were going to have a budget of $100 million a season (which would be six to eight episodes, so that's $12 to $16 million an episode), but that's $200 million for eight episodes ($150 million if they only make six), which is a lot of money. I guess when they said that these shows would be similar to the movies, that's what they meant.
To give a hint about how much money this is, Agents of SHIELD generally has a budget of about $3 million an episode (the only exception was the pilot, which was $8-12 million, but that's the pilot). And that budget was slashed for Season 5, too.
Not to mention the Mandalorian, their big launch show for Disney+, only had a budget of 100$ million in comparison.
This is bonkers. I guess all we need to worry about is the writing: the special effects and visuals are going to be something else no matter what.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 1st 2019 at 8:33:17 AM
I thought it was pretty clear the prior TV stuff was made relatively on the cheap. Compared to the movies. That's why in those early days when people kept asking when were Iron Man and the Hulk gonna show up in AOS, I knew it wasn't gonna happen. Even once you get past RDJ's massive paycheck, 5 minutes of Iron Man would probably take their effects budget for the whole season.
Edited by comicwriter on Oct 1st 2019 at 8:49:49 AM
But that was the one where they went into space... in the future!
This is a very cool VFX breakdown of Season 4:
And here's a breakdown of Season 5's VFX:
Edited by alliterator on Oct 1st 2019 at 8:55:36 AM
Something sounds severely off, Game of Thrones was averaging 15 million an episode and the most expensive tv episodes period tended to be rooted in the pilots due to shouldering all the cost of casting, set construction and Stock Footage effects that will be used for the rest of the show, and even those top out around 25 million.
So dumping 25 million per episode for each series sounds like the worst idea in a long history of bad ideas.
Yeah, thinking it over, I'm thinking that the report is wrong. Looking over the article again
, it says:
(Plus, there is no way that Marvel Television is going to be "taken over" by Marvel Studios.)
Furthermore, looking at the Variety article
, this is what it actually states:
Which means the article is, let's say it now: cliiiiick baaaaaait.
Edited by alliterator on Oct 2nd 2019 at 2:02:12 AM
Pretty sure Disney's partly responsible for those financial troubles. Netflix is bleeding shareholders as we get closer to the Disney+ launch.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They said “up to” for a reason on the cost.
And I still want Red Ronin fighting something. I honestly don’t care who’s fighting it. It could be Shang Chi hijacking it to fight Fin Fang Foom for all I care...and holy hell I want that now.
They’d probably just drive in into bankruptcy and buy individual licenses at that point. Like a fire sale.
Edited by Beatman1 on Oct 2nd 2019 at 9:57:07 AM
Another Nod to the Ao S FX crews, not only did they pull off Ghost Rider well, but they had to render FOUR DIFFERENT GHOST RIDERS (Robbie, Johnny, Mack and Coulson) in that season, and all 4 were distinctive/different they didn't apply the same trick to all four holders of the Spirit they made each 'holder' different which couldn't have been good for the budget.
Cross-posting from the Spider-Man: Far From Home thread:
According to Hollywood Reporter, Tom Holland himself saved the Spider-Man deal and got Disney and Sony to talk again.
I guess Stan Lee was right:
"One person can make a difference."
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As soon as the vibranium engine stopped applying a cohesive force to the city, it would begin to disintegrate on its own through simple mechanical stress without any help from the Avengers. As I said, it is too large to have structural integrity.
However, that still leaves building-size objects hitting the ground at terminal velocity. That's really bad. Breaking them apart would help, a little. Maybe.
It's probably not worth pointing out the energy requirement to mechanically destroy a city, even if you aren't literally vaporizing it... Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale.
Edited by Fighteer on Oct 1st 2019 at 5:07:40 AM
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