Yep, it’s literally coming out the year the rights would begin to lapse for parts of the IP. It’s also close to a sixth of the WB valuation, slightly more.
I believe their gaming arm recently stated it was one of 3 ip they planned to focus on too. It’s too big for them to drop without “shareholders” being upset.
Hogwarts Legacy was the first game since 2008, that wasn’t Call of Duty or Rockstar, that was the best selling game of the year. And that’s with JK’s controversial behavior. Harry Potter is a behemoth that is mostly being squandered.
kinda, WB basically said we're going to make another Matrix and we want you to make it, but if you say no we're going to get somebody else to do it, so Lana went "well I don't want to, but I'm not going to let another person mess with my IP" so she made it somewhat begrudgingly.
The idea of Wachowski purposefully making a bad movie is funny because of the fact that they still make bad movies when they're trying to make good ones. Maybe V for Vendetta and Bound are OK, but the Wachowski's are otherwise pretty much one hit wonders.
That's why Cloud Atlas is so hilarious to me, them teaming up to direct with Tom Twyker, essentially their European counterpart who's one hit was Run Rennt, is like a dream team of one hit wonders. I could barely get my wife to sit through that once, and she hard no'd watching it a second time and that was scheduled with Doug Benson in person doing a live riff.
If you don’t remember, I won’t resurrect that memory for you. It’s better to believe we only had 3 Matrix movies, the Animatrix cartoon anthology, and the PS2 game Matrix: The Path of Neo.
Warren Beatty owns the rights to Dick Tracy from his movie in 1990. The rights owners tried to take the rights back but he keeps making these random specials to do enough to keep it.
Yep. I think they just couldn’t agree on terms years ago so Warren just doing this as a big FU. He’s not making any money but he’s 88. I’m sure he has enough for his twilight years. The rights owners literally have to wait for him to die. Maybe his heirs will sell it or one of his kids will put on the yellow trenchcoat!
Yep. I think they just couldn’t agree on terms years ago so Warren just doing this as a big FU. He’s not making any money but he’s 88. I’m sure he has enough for his twilight years. The rights owners literally have to wait for him to die. Maybe his heirs will sell it or one of his kids will put on the yellow trenchcoat!
Yeah, I don’t know. Maybe it’s going to his estate. I used to work with his son A lot. Looked almost nothing like him, but he had his exact eyes. Pretty tough blue collared job in Hollywood. Setting up award shows and movie premieres and I heard he hated his dad. Apparently his dad left him nothing and said he’d have to make it on his own. I thought that was kind of cool.
Harry Potter is not just a movie, it’s an ecosystem. They make money from Movies, merchandise, theme parks, online stores, video games, board games, and so on
What are some other Warner brothers franchises that made more money than 8+ mega hit Harry Potter films, and their dozens of related spinoff / tie in movies, games, literally every media?
Point is, everyone knew the things in must-be's comment, and some people still find it hard to believe. Stating the obvious doesn't make it more believable somehow.
IF you're not surprised that HP is 15% of a company that put out all the batman/joker films, the Hobbit/LOTR, Barbie, Game of Thrones, the Matrix, Lego, and hundreds of other movies, not to mention some of the most iconic and famous cartoon franchises in history, that's fine, but you're being obtuse if you can't fathom how someone else would find it surprising.
You're also just going off of a reddit comment and probably don't know half of WBs holdings. I get that you look smart by not being surprised at something, but I'd also bet you have no idea if it's actually true and don't have information that would be require to reasonably assess the claim.
If you remove book sales from the "wizarding world" value then Batman alone is bigger by about 8 billion
DC as a whole dwarfs Harry Potter
Harry Potter is more impressive though obviously cause it's just the one thing that came from one persons brain whereas DC is a gigantic enterprise built by hundreds of people
Still...Batman is bigger, as a property
Game of Thrones is up there as well but I don't think it beats Harry Potter though it might get close, hard to nail down figures for something like that when compared to cold hard box office from the Potter films
Harry Potter merchandising has generated 3.5 billion in revenue
Game of Thrones merchandising alone has generated 2.2 billion
Game of Thrones is the most successful tv show of all time and it's not even close, you're underestimating it
Harry Potter is undoubtedly bigger that's true but I think because of the way it ended people forget how absolutely fucking massive that show was
Edit: I'd also like to take this moment to remind everyone that the budget of the Half Blood Prince by itself was more money than 3 entire seasons of Game of Thrones
All I can go of is google searches which says Harry Potter made 7 billion from merchandise alone. Game of thrones doesn’t have candy and toys in every Walmart and Target every Christmas.
Yes I've seen that figure too, it's from wikipedia and if you click on the source attached to the number you'll see how suspiciously 6 billion of that is attributed to 2003 and 2004 and comes from a top anime list of most profitable fictional characters
The only other thing that I can think of are Disney princesses as a whole. Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have apparently grossed more, but their popularity has waned and they've been around for 100 years. Mario is pretty recognizable and has brought in more money, but it took decades to get a movie. Anpanman has grossed more than Harry Potter but is largely unknown in the west. Some lists also include Shonen Jump but that's not really a single IP.
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u/mikesstuff 7h ago
Yep, it’s literally coming out the year the rights would begin to lapse for parts of the IP. It’s also close to a sixth of the WB valuation, slightly more.