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@stephenwrty @ManaByte The money that was reported wasn't the budget. It was only the money spent that qualified for California tax rebates. That's the whole point. The film's budget was never released. And you use the budget for every movie to determine if it makes money.

@hedgehobbit @ManaByte So...they report the budget just like EVERY other movie but for some reason you count this against Mando? Ooohhhkkkaaayyyy

It’s wild watching the trade press and certain corners of film Twitter cover The Mandalorian and Grogu this weekend. Audiences are showing up, families are loving it, and the vibe leaving the theater is pure classic Star Wars fun. Yet, if you read the trades or the critical breakdowns, you’d think the sky was falling because it isn't hitting $200 million on a modest, highly responsible budget. There’s a very specific reason Hollywood and critics are so invested in wanting this movie to fail, and it has nothing to do with the actual quality on screen. For the past several years, the narrative has been that "the theater experience is dying" and that streaming platforms ruined the prestige of cinema. The Mandalorian and Grogu represents the ultimate test case: taking a massively successful streaming show and turning it back into a theatrical feature film. If it succeeds, it completely upends the traditional Hollywood hierarchy. It proves that streaming can be an incredibly effective farm system for big-screen blockbusters, and that audiences will buy a ticket to see characters they’ve already watched at home if they love them enough. But traditional trades and critics don't want that to be the future. They want a clear, rigid line between television and movies. So, because the film is tracking for a solid, profitable Memorial Day weekend instead of breaking all-time historical records, they’re framing it as a "diminished galaxy." They are treating a win like a loss because a win for Mando and Grogu means admitting the industry's old playbook is officially outdated. At the end of the day, Din Djarin said it best: "I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold." Right now, audiences are bringing this movie in warm, no matter how cold the trades try to play it.

@YourAnonTruth1 @ManaByte Yes. The $166 million reported to California is only part of the budget. And the tax credit Disney received was $21.8 million. So, take the $166 add in the salary of all the main actors, the director, and the writers, then subtract $21.8 from that total. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

@hedgehobbit @ManaByte its included in the budget you big dummy. Also, they still get tax credit money back so quit lying boy.

@HunterRoderick_ @EricLDaugh Yep. Every statement in that ad was true!

@EricLDaugh FACT CHECK TRUE!

🚨 NOW: Rep. Thomas Massie fumes that Republicans "used artificial intelligence" to make it seem like he was cozying up to AOC and Ilhan Omar "They used AI to create a life-like video showing me checking into a hotel room with AOC and Ilhan Omar and holding hands with them!" "It was very effective on the boomers...the boomers are gonna, you know, leave this country to Gen X, Gen Z, Millennials. I won them. They don't get fooled by AI." "They won this race by fooling voters."

@stephenwrty @ManaByte From California's Legislative Office lao.ca.gov/Publications/R… "California is also the only program in our comparison that does not allow any so called “above‑the‑line spending,” such as wages for directors, writers, and actors, to count toward expenditures for credit purposes."

@hedgehobbit @ManaByte Proof, or you're full of shit!

@KamenZilla This movie was made to appeal to the critics. WTF are you talking about?

@fandompulse This is why Star Wars fans have been saying for years that Dave Feloni is the wrong person to be leading up the franchise. He doesn't understand it. He just wants to put himself and his fanfic characters on screen.

Dave Filoni, new Lucasfilm president and chief creative officer, on how he intends to handle Star Wars canon going forward: "Fans debating, fans discussing, that's the most important thing. Only Sith deal in absolutes. Life itself doesn't have these very strident rules that everyone follows. I love the conversation, no matter which way it goes." The man now in charge of all Star Wars lore just said canon is whatever fans want it to be. Is that liberating or the beginning of total franchise chaos?

@MonKiSpunky @LivLaughMock @MoviesThatMaher You don't get it. People don't want to go to a movie to see a bunch of old people pretend to be action heroes. Even Pedro Pascal is too old (and too out of shape) to be believable.

@hedgehobbit @LivLaughMock @MoviesThatMaher in universe people typically fought for the rebellion until they died . it’s not uncommon

#TheMandalorianAndGrogu was on course to make $80M-$85M in its opening 3 days of release. BUT walk up business has been very strong so far and that’s a good indicator that word of mouth is really helping the film. It’s surpassing industry projections and the film could come in anywhere between $85M - $100M at the Domestic Box Office. They said this would be the lowest grossing Star Wars film but it fights back!

@SithZealot The movie theaters take about half the ticket price. Mando & Grogu is nowhere near making its money back. This isn't moving the goalposts. It's been a known fact forever.

So let me get this straight. It’s going to make its money back in a weekend. It’s well received by both audiences and critics. Yet it’s still a failure?? Let’s just be fuckin fr, the goal posts keep getting moved by the haters. I’ve seen enough. The movie is a success.

@ab_lokhandwala1 @ManaByte "Don't ask questions. Just consume the product and get excited for the next product."

@ManaByte fr ngl what's with all the negativity? are these folks just trying 2 sound smart or something? cant they just enjoy the show like everyone else? 🙌

@JayShoe78 @ManaByte Andor might be a good show, but it isn't a Star Wars show. Andor fans are Star Wars tourists. Please don't lump them in with us.

@ManaByte The Star Wars purists are toxic and obnoxious. They basically hate every single show besides Andor. They can’t just enjoy what comes out like the rest of us. I take each one for what they are and just enjoy tie fighters and lightsaber battles…it works for us non-purists.

@LivLaughMock @MoviesThatMaher Sigourny Weaver is 13 years older than Alex Guinness was in the original SW. Yet Alex was playing a wise old man while Weaver is playing an action hero.

@MoviesThatMaher It’s a big hit in the geriatric demographic

@kiwibestiar @MoviesThatMaher "fun" <- That's how you know it's bad

@MoviesThatMaher Screw the haters! The movie is really fun and action-packed. People only hate it because there are no cameos, no Luke, no Jedi, no dark side—that's the only reason they hate it.

@MoviesThatMaher Word of mouth has been terrible.

@ImMeme0 All shorts where this way back in the 1970s/80s.

Parents are BLASTING Old Navy for selling booty shorts to young girls like it’s somehow normal. Turning elementary school girls into eye candy for creeps isn’t “fashion,” it’s corporate degeneracy dressed up as retail. Whoever approved this garbage should be ashamed, and parents buying into it need to seriously rethink what they’re normalizing for young girls.

@CourtEllingson @ABDanielleSmith They can't help themselves. They gotta fly the rainbow flag to show who they are really loyal to.

A lone separatist tried interrupting our pro-Canada rally We sang Oh #Canada impromptu, in response Albertans are proud Canadians. The vast majority don't want #Alberta to leave @ABDanielleSmith & UCP gave a megaphone to loud extremists Next election, voters will remember.

@souljagoyteller Pilate washed his hands of the whole affair. It's right there in the bible.

Why is it that Pontius Pilate is not more of a villain in Christian history? When reading the New Testament for the first time, I was shocked to see that Pilate is depicted more as doing his Roman duty and not as a satanic force

@RazorFist I hope you are ready for the 150 button presses necessary to fully complete this game. (yes, someone tested it).

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@teaoftree @Grummz More like "If they did thing something bad for one violation of the TOS, they can do it for any violation of TOS"

@Grummz "Everyone hates thing A, but what if the company suddenly changed directions and went after thing B instead? Wouldn't that be terrible?"

Riot is BRICKING cheating hardware that costs up to a grand to buy. DMA cards are hardware devices that plug into your PC and touch memory directly, bypassing the CPU and Windows. Riot is detecting them and destroying them permanently, posting to X to brag about it.

@Tsar_Guard @Grummz If you actually read the TOS (I know, almost no one does), it states that the penalty for violations is account banning, not hardware destruction. So this doesn't apply only to cheaters, they can do this for any other violation of the TOS (such as "trolling").

@Grummz Sue them if you respected the ToS or the agreement. I don't think they are able to do so. Because imagine the repercussion especially if you were innocent. This treatment is only for cheaters