TheImpressiveX@piefed.socialM to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-213 days agoAfter Limp ‘Ares’ Opening, ‘Tron’ Remains in Franchise Limbo — The sci-fi series about digital worlds has become too big to be a truly “cult” series, yet not big enough to be a major cultural forcewww.thewrap.comexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkAfter Limp ‘Ares’ Opening, ‘Tron’ Remains in Franchise Limbo — The sci-fi series about digital worlds has become too big to be a truly “cult” series, yet not big enough to be a major cultural forcewww.thewrap.comTheImpressiveX@piefed.socialM to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-213 days agomessage-square71fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareIWW4@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up16·13 days agoIn limbo is how it has always been. It is really impressive/amazing that Disney dropped 180 mlll into this “franchise’. Both previous movies were flops. What made them think this would be any different?
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·13 days agoI don’t know what made you think that, but you’re wrong. Both Tron 1 and Tron 2 were moderate successes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy
minus-squareIWW4@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down4·13 days ago2.5 the budget is a financial success. Tron 82 cost 17 mill to make and made 32 mill. Tron Legacy cost 170 mill to make and made 400 mill.
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up8·12 days agoThe Wikipedia articles literally say “moderate success”
minus-squareɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoThat’s assuming today’s standards for a film’s financial success are the same as in the early 80s. Were they?
In limbo is how it has always been. It is really impressive/amazing that Disney dropped 180 mlll into this “franchise’. Both previous movies were flops.
What made them think this would be any different?
I don’t know what made you think that, but you’re wrong. Both Tron 1 and Tron 2 were moderate successes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Legacy
2.5 the budget is a financial success.
Tron 82 cost 17 mill to make and made 32 mill.
Tron Legacy cost 170 mill to make and made 400 mill.
The Wikipedia articles literally say “moderate success”
That’s assuming today’s standards for a film’s financial success are the same as in the early 80s. Were they?