Thread 150093506

How bad did Sony fuck this up?

>>150093506 (OP)
>sells entire ip, which includes merch
>sells rights to music as well

at least they might have a bargaining chip with netflix to renegotiate things since only Sony can make the sequels according to the contract, but it's a massive massive fumble to already miss out on all the profits of the first movie

At least they still own all of these great franchises

>>150093506 (OP)
Why didn't Sony even retain any rights to the ip instead of selling the whole thing? Their other straight to netflix movies, they still retained ip rights

>>150093506 (OP)
>K Flop Demon Hunters
They didn't miss out on much

>>150093585
>flop
bait

>>150093585
Are you living under a rock?

>>150093551
Who's that cute gmilf

>>150093506 (OP)
should've had more diversity hiring in the execs so one could've recognised that a kpop film aimed at women could've been good enough to at least keep the ip.

KDH ramyuns are going to be real now!

>>150093551
>still waiting on Cloudy 3

zoey

>>150093609
Van Helsing daughter.

>>150093551
I thought Vivo was also a Netflix exclusive

>>150093585
Bro Netflix fucking won

Can someone explain to me what Sony did wrong here?

>>150093506 (OP)
How would they fair in the bed room?

>>150093805
They do everything together, EVERYTHING.

>>150093772
sold the entire ip to netflix for only 20 million in profit. sold the music rights to a non-sony company.

>>150093772
>According to Puck’s Matthew Belloni, Sony agreed to a “direct-to-platform” arrangement where Netflix would pay back the film’s production budget plus an additional fee capped at $20 million per project. In exchange, Netflix retained all rights to the property and owes no additional profit participation, even as the film becomes a massive hit. This wasn’t Sony shopping around a finished film; Netflix essentially funded the production while Sony handled the creative work.

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>>150093859
What the fuck were they thinking?

>>150093913
It's Sony Pictures, they don't think. They have always been THE movie studio of bad decisions. Remember those leaked emails?

>>150093913
>racism
>out of touch
https://www.thepopverse.com/movies-kpop-demon-hunters-sony-pictures-animation-netflix-relationship
“We pitched the movie to Sony,” Kang explained in a recent interview. “And they passed on it. It’s a big risk to do a movie with a full Asian cast on something that’s very culturally Korean, which hasn’t been done before. K-pop was at its peak, but it could have plateaued. There was a lot of uncertainty with that. So we pitched it to Netflix. We had a full draft, a couple of demo songs, a ton of amazing art and a couple of scenes that I had [story]boarded that we cut. And there were three different animatics samples that we shared; and they loved it. And then we were off to the races.”

However, Netflix couldn’t just take on producing KPop Demon Hunters immediately. Both Kang and Appelhans were Sony employees, so it became “a different kind of relationship,” according to Kang.

“The creative was primarily at Sony Pictures Animation and then Netflix was the distribution and investor in a way,” Appelhans said. “They footed the bill and they gave notes, but the core team was Sony.”


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>>150094014
>We had a full draft, a couple of demo songs, a ton of amazing art and a couple of scenes that I had [story]boarded that we cut. And there were three different animatics samples that we shared; and they loved it. And then we were off to the races.”

Sony saw this and still passed on it.
>>150093962
is completely right

>>150093506 (OP)
Do you honestly believe Kpop demon hunters would do well at the box office? Sony has no distribution platform.

>>150094124
might have spread through word of mouth and the 90+ rotten tomatoes score

>>150094136
97% fresh.

Also there's funko pops coming.
Sony isn't earning any of it

>>150093715
>Taking gold in the special olympics

>>150094124
It legitimately made millions and millions of dollars for the last weekend. It was in the box office they were sold out shows everywhere.

>>150093506 (OP)
I still don’t understand the hype

>>150093585
>Flop
You know that word has an actual definition that isn't just "thing I don't like 'cause women", right?

>>150093651
Do people want to plow them?

>>150093715
I bet you believe NeZha 2 was also a super popular and successful movie

>>150094014
>It’s a big risk to do a movie with a full Asian cast on something that’s very culturally Korean, which hasn’t been done before.
If it was all fat niggers you just know this shit would have had a billion dollar marketing campaign.

>>150094264
People want to plow everything

>Boys like hot girls
>Girls like hot guys
>Both like catchy songs
>People generally like fun action
>People like actual romance
>Anime and Kpop are very popular
>The villain is an actual villain and threatening
HOLY SHITm WHO WOULD'VE THUNK ALL THESE THINGS DONE WELL WOULD MAKE A SUCCESSFUL MOVIE!?

>>150094572
not Sony even though they got to see a draft script and song demos

>>150094572
eh the girls aren't very hot. zoey is cute but none of them are sexy or anything. they're rail thin and flat. unironically i feel like they were designed to appeal to girls as "cool" more than appeal to boys with sex appeal.

>>150094202
Yes. After the Netflix success. I like Kpop Demon Hunters. I love the Spiderverse films. Had Kpop debuted in theaters rather then streaming I don't think I would have seen. It's biggest advantage is being higher quality than the usual slop thrown onto the Netflix platform.

>>150094733
Anon, it's time to tell you the truth: "thicc" was just a meme, no one actually likes fat women

>>150094813
different strokes i guess. i think women look objectively better when they're chubby but rail thin women have never done anything for me anyways. i can't personally see these characters as having sex appeal but i'm not crazy into asian women to begin with.

>>150094733
All bodies are beautiful, anon. Except mine.

>>150094733
Yes the guys a beef cake but the girls are sticc bugs, girls need more vava voom

>>150094813
Meanwhile Squirrel Girl looks extra thicc in the Chinese coomer game.

>>150095287
i think it's just the total lack of curves with the kpop demon hunter ladies that turns me off. i'm not going to act like being skinny would be a turn off for me irl, but with fictional idealized women generally you want SOME curves. cause they're not real and can have flawless perfect bodies with none of the flaws that can come with extra weight irl.

>>150095428
>he total lack of curves with the kpop demon hunter ladies
are you blind

>>150095481
no? they're very skinny. like i said though i've never been into the kpop asian idol look so maybe they're hot to people into that. zoey has a cute face/expressions though.

>>150095428
most Kpop fans are female and lead characters in stuff made by and for women tend to have few to no curves. I have never seen a shoujo manga where the MC is curvy

>>150095428
even worse, they dress like plus-sized women for some reason. eradicate high-waisted shit

>>150093715
Half-right and half-wrong. It beat Red Notice on the first 90 days of streaming views list. It still hasn't beat Red Notice on overall views it's gained after that time (371.53m as of Aug 26). People need to report this properly but they are too eager to glaze Kpop Demon Hunters to get the facts straight.

>>150095552
>I have never seen a shoujo manga
No shit, Sherlock, it's a genre for teenagers. Romance manga for women look different.

>>150095748
shounen is for teenagers too and has endless curvy women. japanese women are skinny on average so maybe it's easier for them to self insert if the protag is skinny.

>>150094733
Faggot

>>150095765
>teen boys have no problem fantasizing about being a big muscleman
>teen girls can't fantasize about being a cow titty bimbo

female imagination is so limited

they have kpop bodies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32si5cfrCNc

>>150095787
i literally said zoey is cute. i just don't have a carnal lust to plap her like a character with curves.

>>150093551
At least with Hotel Transylvania if Prime numbers were anything to go by during the last movie people still care enough to get it to like the #1 spot for them for a bit. Thats still 1/4 for them but it aint zero

>>150095481
When he says curves he means morbidly obese

Like how when people talk about that bara thing they mean fat people

Zoey pegging futa Rumi would be so hot

>>150096219
curves just implies a woman has hips, thighs, ass, and boobs. the kpop demon hunter girls are model stick thin. curvey fictional characters are gaining popularity in asia too so it's bizarre that you're so asshurt about someone preferring a woman have some meat on her bones.

>>150094320
It technically was but nowhere near the extent the bugmen want you to believe and it has no real influence beyond that particular demographic.

>>150094733
>>150094813
Eh, I like sticc and thicc

Sony is like the guy who paid for two pizzas with bitcoin when it was worthless

>>150097861
Look the ai algorithm said that it was only going to make $15 million at the box office