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Sony Q3 FY16 Results
- Thread starter dracula_x
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It all makes sense. Their output was absolute horseshit. A few years ago, they were great. Now I don't even know what the fuck they are doing. They need new people up there.
The studio needs new ideas and franchises. And not stuff like Spice Girls Ghostbusters.
Well, it's run by Tom Rothman.
So if they didnt use the $1billion in goodwill impairment Sony pictures would have made a profit of $80mil?
odhiex
Member
De fak... Lol
Crimson_Gold
Member
yup
AstroNut325
Member
This is my new favorite gif!Destiny 2 will shake the pillars of the earth
Destiny 2 will shake the pillars of the earth
LOL
Destiny 2 will shake the pillars of the earth
it is going to be the biggest launch of all time just beaten by GTA V, the hype is already massive on my FL.
Nightengale
Member
Pictures Division is in a shithole right now, but I think it's the right decision to not sell. It's still a limited competition space and the movie business is so hit-driven that honestly just one or two big hits can fix this situation.
The problem, of course, is the studio's inability to make one.
Honestly it needs a complete creative shake-up. It doesn't take a genius to see that 90% of the stuff Sony funds are mediocrities that has very little chance of success.
Even the 10% of the stuff that has the chance of success, either due to brand license ( Bond, Spidey, etc) are apparently 20 different kinds of development hell, and current Sony Pictures management do not have the leadership to steer a movie out of dev hell and still come out a great film.
The problem, of course, is the studio's inability to make one.
Honestly it needs a complete creative shake-up. It doesn't take a genius to see that 90% of the stuff Sony funds are mediocrities that has very little chance of success.
Even the 10% of the stuff that has the chance of success, either due to brand license ( Bond, Spidey, etc) are apparently 20 different kinds of development hell, and current Sony Pictures management do not have the leadership to steer a movie out of dev hell and still come out a great film.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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Destiny 2 will shake the pillars of the earth
This is so damn good.
Amazing performance by PS, this year is gonna be the craziest yet
Nightengale
Member
We don't know but it's a high likelihood.
Confirmed:
RDR2
Highly likely:
All Star Wars games
Destiny 2
COD2017
Dirk Benedict
Member
I can't remember the last Sony movie I gave a neuron about.
That's pretty fucking funny. It's like a total reversal of the PS3/360 era.
Obviously Sony made a lot of good with the PS4, but something I've noticed that people don't seem to mention as one of the reasons of the PS4's constant growth is Sony's dream E3s they had in the last two years, those E3s really helped build the idea that the PS4 is the console to go, I think it had a significant impact, yea E3 might be for the more hardcore but those hardcore players drive that narrative to the more mainstream audience as well.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Well said.
Wonder if the poster in question has seen the thread, DocSeuss too who claimed worldwide sales don't matter for jackshit
Pros has been restocked in some asian countries so hopefully sales pick up even more.
Damn shame indeed. Don't Breathe and Sausage Party were good movies. Regardless of how messed up the latter is
wapplew
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LastMinuteHero
Member
check out marvel genius in klang. They had some last I checked middle of last month
Yes, they have a 10 years deal with Acti for Destiny afaik.
michaelius
Banned
Underworld disappeared from cinemas after two weeks in my country. Was it better in US ?
When I say "good" I mean that it made its money back and will likely be decently profitable with the video release.
RE made its money back in 1 week.
A PSX event every December for the past three years also reinforces that idea.
Yes they have. Also Battlefront 2.
And if RDR 2 releases in the Fall, they would have marketing deals for Destiny 2, Star Wars Battlefront 2 and RDR 2 during that period. Insane.
EDIT: And Call of Duty as well. Before COD: Black Ops III they announced they signed a 3-year deal that would end with this year game. They surely don't have much room to market any other game during Fall. Imagine the bundles they can do.
They still expect to hit 60 million shipped by April, though I think they will be 300-400k short of that.
michaelius
Banned
Indeed, Sony in general increased the number of shows and their investment in that area significantly and even though it can be a pain for the devs who need to make more demos it had proven itself alot.
They shouldn't. They already gonna let them use Spider-Man anyways. They just need a whole new team of people. If a movie looks like hot garbage lately there is a good chance it is a Sony movie.
hodayathink
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Ignoring the fact that it would be a bad idea on both sides just financially, the only reason Disney would buy Sony Pictures is for full control of Spider-Man. Outside of that, the only semi-relevant franchises Sony owns are Jump Street (and the next one isn't being made by Lord and Miller, so we'll see how that goes) and MiB (which, well, is being crossed over with Jump Street). Disney wouldn't need to buy them for the talent (they have better talent there, and if there were any particular employee they wanted they could probably poach them), and there's really nothing that Sony does as far as the behind the scenes of making movies go that most of the Disney movie studios (Marvel, Pixar, WDAS, and their live action division) don't already do better. Hell, the best division at Sony Pictures in terms of quality of output is the TV division (Blacklist, Better Call Saul, etc) and even they get dwarfed by Disney.
Melchiah
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Arrival was great though.
Zok310
Banned
not sure, but at this point why would you align your big product with anything else when the PS4 is so far ahead by such a large margin? What is it now a 25 million lead ahead?
They did not produce it, just distribute in few territories. However, they are co-producing Blade Runner 2049.
... and great TV Shows (Better Call Saul, The Crown, The Get Down)
Melchiah
Member
What about Passengers, is it produced by them, and any good?
Its produced by them and I thought it was a good movie
WW numbers is unknown, but in Japan only 163K so far
→ http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1339806
Melchiah
Member
Good to hear, since I love scifi, and thought about seeing it.
No, they are sticking with it but are planning full reorganization on the top. Old boss is already out, Kaz is supervising transition personally.
The right move. It had a rotten leadership. Getting rid of the movie division as a whole would be a bad mistake. They are the leading videogame/console & music publisher on the planet. Having a healthy movie/TV-show division would make a really powerful entertainment trio.
michaelius
Banned
Well in theory - but in reality Sony sucks at using one division to support other.
They made HDR massive in video gaming - and the moment they announced it on Pro launch conference their TVs couldn't even enable HDR in game mode leaving market to Samsung. There was also a lot of confusion about whole HDR, game mode and TV support early.
If they were thinking globally the TV division should have been fully prepared for HDR gaming the moment they were announced to rip benefits of people buying 4K TVs.
Movie division haven't done anything for other divisions outside of some low class product placement.
Mobile was always on it's own - they barely tried to push their phones by using other divisions.
DeadManWalking
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Next ghostbusters reboot gonna save the day. Don't worry folks.
Mobile has product placement in movies and games lol. They also use display, camera, audio tech from other divisions.
But yeah they need to be more One Sony
This is similar to what happened with the mobile division a few years back right? Pictures hasn't actually lost them $920M in their cash flow correct? I remember with mobile, the quarter the loss was written, Sony's cash flow actually increased.
Hazelhurst
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With the huge success of Civil War and Marvel's magical dust, I expect the new Spider-Man movie to be the highest grossing Spider-Man movie yet. I think it will break $1 billion worldwide.
Now Sony just needs a Bond movie for 2018...
Now Sony just needs a Bond movie for 2018...