March 15 (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. will earn $350 million to $400 million from James Cameron’s “Avatar” once the world’s top-grossing film is also released on pay television and DVD, said two people with knowledge of its financial performance.An evil, greedy, capitalist multinational corporation lead by Rupert Murdoch will be using the money from James Cameron's story of primitive people fighting off an evil, greedy, capitalist multiplanetary corporation. Good Lord, Fox News will be using this money!
The sum represents News Corp.’s about 40 percent cut of as much as $1 billion that the film is expected to earn for its Twentieth Century Fox and “Avatar” investors, said the people, who declined to be named because the projections are private. Fox also collects a distribution fee on the box-office revenue.
News Corp.’s share amounts to almost half of the New York- based company’s average quarterly operating profit in the past year.
If only there was some way to create movies attacking evil, greedy, capitalist multinational corporations without using evil, greedy, capitalist multinational corporations to make them!
Sometimes I think that the reason there are so many movies that are down on the evil, heartless corporations, is because the people making them have to deal intimately with the evil, heartless corporations that make movies, and they are kind of bitter about it.
ReplyDeleteThat is, the hatred of corporations comes after they start making movies, not before.