r/todayilearned • u/Milwambur • 2d ago

TIL that Eva Longaria spent 6 million dollars saving a film after her agent told her it was the right call. She now says its the best money she ever spent. That film? John Wick

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/eva-longoria-john-wick-checks-1236196504/
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u/FriendlyAndHelpfulP 2d ago

This is what Warner Bros did with Joker 1 & 2.

Joker 1 was produced by like a dozen different companies, and the overseas rights sold cheaply to keep the financial risk down.

Joker 2? WB financed everything themselves, because they had a sure hit on their hands. 

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u/CQ1_GreenSmoke 2d ago

I guess the jokes on them then…

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u/Dairy_Ashford 2d ago

remember when some actor pretended to be a musician once

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u/ghost_of_mr_chicken 1d ago

Keanu Reeves?

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u/getfukdup 2d ago

I guess the jokes on them then…

oh come on

I guess the jokers on them then…

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u/ChongusTheSupremus 2d ago

Little did Warner knew, Todd Phillips wanted to do anything but a good movie.

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u/blacklite911 2d ago

It seems like Todd Phillips made Joker 2 to not be profitable on purpose. Like doing the opposite of what fans would expect from a sequel

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u/MPFuzz 2d ago

I actually worked for a company that helped finance Joker. The deal was, if you wanted to put some money up for Joker, you also had to put money up to help finance some of their other riskier projects as well. Never heard of something like that before but I thought it was a smart play on WB's part to help minimize their risk on other stuff.

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u/Beautiful-Jacket-260 1d ago

I've heard of that. Multi picture deal.

You pitch your good film and put a couple of likely duds with it, I think it's quite common in indie scene.

I remember Simon Jordan talking about doing that with a few of his films he helped finance.

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u/Monkeylashes 2d ago

Except joker 2 bombed at the box office

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u/silverfallmoon 2d ago

I'm pretty sure that's the point.

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u/anormalgeek 2d ago

WB has no idea what a good film looks like.

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u/silverfallmoon 2d ago

Starting to feel that way about all of the major studios.

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u/AmericanPatriot1776_ 2d ago

A24 studios kinda fucks if I'm being honest

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u/RDandersen 2d ago

What do you think the word "except" means?

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u/Dairy_Ashford 2d ago

if Michigan J. Frog was a movie

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u/DemonDaVinci 2d ago

HAHAHAHA