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@Mdot999_
just here to talk shit about tennis players fixing tbh and build the perfect system.
Katılım Haziran 2019
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@Mdot999_ Yea but during a game you don’t , some duece games go really really long .
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@thechosenberg Now what? he asks. That’s your call dude. If she’s not like this often, I’d say try to see if yall can work it out (assuming she apologizes and all that), given yall are about to be parents to twins.
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Zendaya says Tom Holland spoiled parts of the ‘Avengers’ movies for her — including a major character’s death
“I was like... ‘Why did you tell me that?!’
"I didn’t get to fully enjoy that with the world, but I’m also kind of glad that I got told in advance so I wasn’t, like, having a meltdown"
(via @allocine)


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Lmaooo fucking classic. Vidmanova what a scammer
CLU@Mdot999_
Vidmanova tanking cus she knows she secured LL spot looool
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yall couldn't even handle different skin colours bfr
•@yducknow
what a boring planet… no fairies, no elves, no mermaids, no dragons, no vampires, no ware wolves….. just bills, stress, gossip, and insufferable people
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he ate him up so bad here i’m in tears😭😭
𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚@beyoncegarden
what's the nastiest read you've ever seen someone give😭
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George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys.
It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal.
Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise.
Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million.
And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion.
Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia.
The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.
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