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GC Rowling's Battlefield TERF, part 2: Fantastic Wheeshts and Where to Find Them

Started by Mister Six, April 14, 2022, 09:39:31 PM

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Catalogue Trousers

Quote from: dead-ced-dead on May 29, 2022, 12:18:30 AMThought I'd share some good box office news with y'all.

The Lost City, co-starring Daniel Radcliffe, has just passed $100m in the US. It's also been really leggy, so it has an outside shot of hitting $200m WW. A nice profit for a film budgeted at $65m.

Fantastic Beasts is still a massive flop. Lol.

Um, sorry to tell you, but it's a whisker away from doubling its $200 million budget in box office receipts. It's at least broken even and looks set to earn more. It may not be a resounding success, but 'massive flop' is somewhat optimistic. There'll doubtless be at least one more and JKR will rake in even more cash.

Not an ideal World that we live in. Bum.

dead-ced-dead

Quote from: Catalogue Trousers on May 29, 2022, 04:49:42 PMUm, sorry to tell you, but it's a whisker away from doubling its $200 million budget in box office receipts. It's at least broken even and looks set to earn more. It may not be a resounding success, but 'massive flop' is somewhat optimistic. There'll doubtless be at least one more and JKR will rake in even more cash.

Not an ideal World that we live in. Bum.

I must have been misinformed but I always thought it was 2.5x the budget to break even, not 2x?

But I think I could have mixed up that info.

Pimhole

WHRC absolutely beclowned themselves by quoting Gluck in a submission to Parliament. It's useful to have these ridiculous figures so you can link their more nebulous stuff to their flat-out bananas output. This is why Gluck created Reduxx I guess, to give it that "once removed" air of independent 'journalism' and keep her clown name off it. Not a great development and very sneaky.

https://terfiles.medium.com/anti-trans-groups-believe-sissy-hypno-porn-is-making-people-trans-d1265ec08b7f

Mister Six

Quote from: dead-ced-dead on May 29, 2022, 05:07:30 PMI must have been misinformed but I always thought it was 2.5x the budget to break even, not 2x?

But I think I could have mixed up that info.

I think it's still 2x, but breaking even after 2 months isn't what they want, not when Doctor Strange 2 has made $800 million in three weeks on the same budget. I could see the series carrying on with a substantially reduced budget though. If they made it for $130 million they'd be in the clear already.

Mister Six

Hm, I wonder if Rowling has been informed by Warners that she won't be writing the scripts at all on any future FB movies, and that's why she's been so petulant on Twitter? Preproduction on FB 3 would have begun in 2018, so a few years before she became a public TERF, and I'm sure she gave them a rough outline of the planned 5 films.

Since her scripts are overblown and subpar, and she no longer has any value as a branding tool - both because she alienates non-banana Potter fans and because she efuses to promote the films to her followers on social - she's now surplus to requirements. Get the bloke that scripted the Potter films and co-scripted FB 3 to write up scripts for 4 and 5 based on whatever fag packet notes she left behind, only mention "staying loyal to Rowling's wonderful vision" in interviews if asked, and pump them out for less cash. Makes sense, if they feel there's anything worth salvaging.

king_tubby

The Hard Drive having another dig at JK, a couple of days after rinsing Musk on Twitter.

https://hard-drive.net/pottermore-update-requires-picture-of-genitals-before-confirming-gender/

EDIT: from last year, I think I may have even linked to it then...

Blue Jam


Mister Six


Mindy Simmons

Quote from: Blue Jam on June 03, 2022, 11:23:57 AMAs if all the terving wasn't bad enough:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61672867

So, her husband is likely a bellend as well. Why the fuck are they buying up all this land anyway?


idunnosomename

Capital investment? She has to keep her wealth steady as she has to keep her philanthropy machine with the odious conservative old bat Baroness Emma Nicholson to keep her reputation up.

Because as we all know, no one who raises money for charity could be an evil person!


Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: Blue Jam on June 03, 2022, 11:23:57 AMAs if all the terving wasn't bad enough:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61672867

The DM reported this as well and the comment section is full of 'Yes landlord wizard mummy please remove our rights of way, stick it to the transes!' stuff. Like a bigot's Princess Diana.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10881851/JK-Rowling-locked-row-right-roam-Scottish-estate.html

Mister Six

What's to stop someone going up in the night with a chainsaw and cutting these things down? Does it count as private property if it's blocking public right of way?

idunnosomename

A lot of the comments there are clearly people who just think ramblers are annoying crusty hippies who just like moaning and basically this is like walking through a suburban back garden.

And quite a lot citing right to roam and that its selfish to be fair. Not a great deal of transgender comments.

It is a bit tabloidy in the first place to make it about Rowling, she has a controlling stake in it but its not directly to do with her.

There's a good JK Rowling transphobia starter pack video from iilluminaughtii gone up in the last week.


somersetchris

Quote from: dead-ced-dead on May 29, 2022, 05:07:30 PMI must have been misinformed but I always thought it was 2.5x the budget to break even, not 2x?

But I think I could have mixed up that info.

It varies, because the ratio depends on how much they spent on marketing. On a big film like this, the marketing costs will be huge but only WB will know what 'breaking even' is. But for a big blockbuster like this they'd be seriously disappointed with less than $600m

somersetchris

Quote from: Catalogue Trousers on May 29, 2022, 04:49:42 PMUm, sorry to tell you, but it's a whisker away from doubling its $200 million budget in box office receipts. It's at least broken even and looks set to earn more. It may not be a resounding success, but 'massive flop' is somewhat optimistic. There'll doubtless be at least one more and JKR will rake in even more cash.

Not an ideal World that we live in. Bum.

I wouldn't share your confidence. The three films have made $800m, $650m and now $400m. That's quite a sharp downward turn and it's not like this latest one has got rave reviews. That kind of decline would make a fourth one a serious risk, they would either have to decrease the budget (which they haven't done with any so far), or put future films on hold. Bearing in mind that similar declines in Star Wars and the DC films but a halt to one and a massive course correction in the other, and that was after only a couple of duds. When you're putting out a $200m blockbuster and it makes 60% of the previous one, you don't steam ahead and make another one without asking some serious questions first.

Although to be honest I'm not sure how much this has to do with Rowling. It can't help, but I'd think it has more to do with the fact that a big chunk of Harry Potter fans will be in their 30's and 40's now and the newer films just aren't much good.

jenna appleseed

reddit hobby drama says fuck you "Jowling Kowling Rowling"

JK Rowling and the TERFed Child

"Disclaimer: At some points in this write up, it may seem like I hate JK Rowling. This is because I hate JK Rowling."

"Rowling also wrote some detective novels under a man's name (the irony is palpable). Her novels included some extremely transphobic elements, such as a serial killer who targeted women by dressing as a woman and going into bathrooms, and the hero of the books telling a trans woman that she'd be raped. Again, super obvious in retrospect, but at the time, the general response to any concern was "Just because she wrote it doesn't mean she supports it." Nobody really took it that seriously. Rowling couldn't be a transphobe, right?

Rowling is a definitely a transphobe."

eta:: replies contain BC thread/glinner & Johnny Greenwood crossover


bgmnts

Just want to say anyone who privately owns huge swathes of land is a massive piece of shit and should fuck off.

idunnosomename

what is the image based off? also they only turned off replies later on (which is funnier, as everyone was shitting on it)

Zero Gravitas

Quote from: idunnosomename on June 07, 2022, 09:42:39 PMwhat is the image based off? also they only turned off replies later on (which is funnier, as everyone was shitting on it)

An underwater wirework time travel scene in the production.


idunnosomename

thanks. does look like it's a genuinely impressive stageshow. even the harry potter films i can admit are visually clever. it's just the plots and characters that let them down imo


phantom_power

Quote from: idunnosomename on June 07, 2022, 10:31:27 PMthanks. does look like it's a genuinely impressive stageshow. even the harry potter films i can admit are visually clever. it's just the plots and characters that let them down imo

It is fucking amazing. The plot is perfunctory and the acting decent but the effects gave me genuine WTF moments. Some really neat small scale old-school magic tricks and some grand, really impressive modern techniques.

I feel a bit sorry for them really. They don't really get to control what Rowling thinks or says and I am sure they don't share her beliefs. I suppose they could not appear in the show on principle but it isn't as if it is a show that belies her attitude and most people probably don't even know she is transphobic shit

Jk_rowling retweeting someone's very graphic account of their bad gender reassignment surgery experience like it's the most normal thing in the world

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1536664379881660417?t=9kXCgfwTgIJ7eKy076L-bA&s=19

Mister Six


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