Posted on 07/10/2013 3:16:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
“The Lone Ranger” was gunned down over the Fourth of July weekend, bringing Disney a paltry $50 million against its estimated budget of $215 million, not to mention its $175 million marketing budget.
Forecasters are now estimating the film will lose $150-200 million.
That’s a lot of mouse food.
But the studio might not be the only one whose bank balance suffers. Many industry insiders are now questioning whether its star Johnny Depp – front and center in “The Lone Ranger” marketing campaign – will be worth his $20 million plus per-movie salary going forward.
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BTW Depp translates into German as moron
I think the crow-on-head thing didn’t help.
Wonder how he’s doing in France with their 70% tax rate...Oh wait excuse me: 100% tax rate....Oh wait excuse me again: OVER 100% tax rate.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/05/21/french-tax-soars-over-100/
Depp gets to join Jim Carry on the “what were we thinking?” moving belt (soon to be accompanied by Will Smith if he tries again to place his no-talent son).
America is tired of the gay pirate.
What’s the big problem, he donned a goofy costume then jibbered and cavorted nonsensically in front of a camera. What’s not to like, it’s just what he does. Again, and again, and again.
Good. They deserve to lose money on this politically correct turkey.
They produce movies NOT to entertain, but to promote a viewpoint. We are supposed to turn off our critical thinking while we are enjoying the movie and allow the hidden message to enter into our subconscious.
Problem is they don’t know how to be subtle. They hit the audience over the head with their message.
I think that crow on head was what the tribe that Tonto was supposed to have been from would do.
What a desert tribe wouldn’t have done is wore buckskins.
The next Pirates movie will establish that Depps is worth the money. But there needs to be some serious questions asked about who the heck greenlit a 250 million dollar budget for a western. No western has ever made enough money to make that profitable, that was a serious screwup.
Depp’s finest moments were in Fear and Loathing, and, to a lesser extent, The Tourist.
The rest of his work is quite unappealing, and he himself strikes me as a jackass.
I didn’t see it. What was politically correct about it?
Look, he was successful at the Pirate idea...but then again there was no character to build upon.
What was the PC message of this movie?
Which, from what I can tell from the promo's, is what Tonto became....
I find the whole thing amusing. The left flipped out for years over Rock Hudson as an Indian in Winchester 73, Victor Mature in Chief Crazy Horse, Audrey Hepburn in The Unforgiven, Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles (okay, that one was intentional and played for laughs), and so many others. Thanks to double standards, it’s no big deal when the ultimate white leftist, Johnny Depp, plays Tonto. Even TV used a real Indian (Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk) for the original TV series.
Then they destroyed the characters, leaving a film that relatively few decent people are foolish enough to watch. If I wanted my kids to see Lone Ranger, I’d pull up the old series on the Internet.
I loved the Tourist, but it bombed at the Box Office.
The Lone Ranger was a revisionist white-bashing movie. It was hate-whitey in spades. It was hate-America and hate-Constitution. In many ways it was worse than Django.
I think a lot of Americans are getting sick and tired of all the anti-American, Anti-Christian, white hatred in Hollywood.
I got so weary of the infernal previews that I decided I wouldn’t be seeing it.
America’s Ministry of Culture to lose $200 million?
Can’t they request a Gov’t bailout?
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