IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT! 'The Acolyte' Cost A WHOPPING $230 Million... IT'S A BLOODBATH!

[@bobnix3240]

If each of the 80,000 "Renew the Acolyte" signatories chips in just $3,000 they can afford another season!

[@Enigma75614]

😂

[@cmac3530]

That's more money than any of those troglodytes have ever seen in their lives

[@Tallacus]

Shit just give Qimir his own show then

[@derlich09]

@@Tallacus At least he can act, but the character is weak sauce writing.

[@ianoz1]

Where are 80 000 bots gonna get 3 Grand each?

[@lokithecat7225]

-IT'S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT!- Great news, it's even better than we thought! The more costly the mistake the better. They won't learn, but it's comforting.

[@dangelini1137]

This. I get confort knowing these companies are losing vast sums of cash

[@johnharty9692]

Twice the filthy lucre,double the fall!

[@mirceazaharia2094]

Good. Excellent. They're digging their own graves. DIG FASTER! You can do this, woke corpo-rats! The "modern audience" is out there, somewhere, hot, horni and flush with disposable income. Go get 'em, champ! 😂

[@Zontar82]

those sums could be used to help countries who are suffering from wars and famine, and not to morons who needs to spreads and force their woke ideas

[@addidaswguy]

Someday they will either COMPLETELY crumble and be sold off, or they will cut the dead weight in the activists and talentless hacks. One way or another, this can't go on forever, they've been hitting the Iceberg with the Titanic and going back to hit it over and over, it's leaking like a sieve.

[@jjjzzrrr]

for every dollar Disney loses an angel gets their wings. wonderful!

[@RyanYeti]

That's a ton of Angel wings!

[@seanrath6043]

Omg😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ThatRandomEncounterGuy]

At this point, those angels are gonna have their own international airport.

[@nicknevco215]

KZbinrs are angels

[@vivian9187]

😂

[@operationlemonostrich7058]

Wow. Imagine what kind of Star Wars series we could have had- with a competent writer/director and a non-activist cast with that ridiculous sum of money.

[@j4ze114]

Agree! All they had to do was make legends star wars shows with no unnecessary DEI, and everyone would of been alot more happy! 😆

[@sexistspaghettios]

This is what I'm saying! SW (or the sorry excuse for SW they call it) ROP, Marvel........so many opportunities to bring fleshed out characters, in-depth worlds and stories that honor the source material and stay true! It's the perfect format for a lot of these and we end up getting THIS SLOP!

[@sadomars2446]

@@j4ze114SWEU was highly hit and miss.

[@AnonymousNoNayme]

@@sadomars2446 Everyone knows the hits though. You obviously wouldn't adapt the turds lol

[@boll04-3]

The original film cost about £60mill in todays money. 😮

[@tommo9757]

"Can't be bothered to remember and don't give a f*ck" sums up my entire attitude to Star Wars now.

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

My attitude for Hollywood in general.

[@duke927]

I understand but this is more entertaining than those crummy shows.

[@malcontender6319]

Nobody ever said that demoralization was cheap.

[@zeppelinboys]

i think Larry Fink said that! lol

[@rangerone8813]

For $300 million, Joss Whedon could have given us two more seasons of Firefly and made Serenity a trilogy.

[@operationlemonostrich7058]

For that kind of budget in 2004, we could have had at least 6 seasons of 22 episodes 😆

[@TheWeirdNick]

Itnstead we got dross,not something ‘Shiny’

[@TheAyeAye1]

Accurate and kind of depressing.

[@armageddonready4071]

Don’t make a fan cry, firefly was something special.

[@knotengajin7359]

Wish instead of slipping into the Twilight Zone universe, we slipped into one where a well written Firefly series was still going strong.

This scoundrel Paul Tassi is a gatekeeper of ideology. He was one of the fiercest defenders of Sweet Baby, Inc. when gamergate 2.0 started, and says that denouncing wokeness or opposing DEI is "stupid" over and over again. DO NOT TRUST THIS GUY.

[@Lobosalsa9]

That extra 50 million explains how they could afford that sweet metal detector the wookie was using.

[@Xiy114]

But nOt a wookie death scene

[@jravage77]

$230 million?! Well, someone at Disney must have a bank account with $200 million in it.

[@justinm2697]

That's what I wonder. Where did all the money go? There were no star directors or A list Hollywood stars to pay huge salaries to.

[@jcorbett9620]

@@justinm2697 Leslye Headland and her wifes retirement fund. Somewhere that doesn't have an extridition treaty with the US so there is no danger of being persued by any of Harvey Weinsteins victims and she can't face justice.

[@suimeingwong2043]

Blackrock has 10.5 trillion in it's piggy bank.

[@octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689]

Embezzlement, the simplest explanation.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

230 million for that shit???? Kathleen kennedy is the worst producer EVER.

[@franciscopina2899]

She's salty because, after all this years, she hasn't been able to come out of the shadow of her infinitely more competent husband, Frank Marshall.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

@franciscopina2899 Yeah there's definitely alot of spite behind her productions.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

With great wokeness comes great fiscal irresponsibility.

[@AVisionofTruth]

🤣 they're math illiterate, can't handle numbers

[@caveatlector2671]

As a contained eldritch god is fond of stating: "The wages of woke is broke."

[@defoley5]

You could almost make a Concord for that kind of money

[@lokithecat7225]

It is not "Irresponsible" to pay off all your DIE friends to "Improve" a product. It's just Embezzling... but Woke. You can even pretend it's Reparations or some sort of Robin Hood bullshit.

[@superfuss1984]

@AVisionofTruth Inumerati....

[@aulvinduergard9952]

At the higher, $230M budget, it comes to $805k per minute.

[@YabbaDabbaDoo2U2]

Good metric. That is pure insanity.

[@crocadillius6418]

The Acolyte really is the gift that keeps on giving

[@joeyellis850]

The problem with Disney is that they hire based on the boxes checked. Not so much talent.

[@NuncleG]

Any other studio could have made The Acolyte for $30m. The Japanese probably could have made it for $300 and 20 cases of Elderflower flavoured Cola.

[@multiversity6290]

And it would be better.

[@doublep1980]

Or the S. Koreans, they produced an entire trilogy of epic historic war dramas, about their national hero Admiral Yi, who fought the invading Japanese Samurai navy in the 16th century, with 80 $ Million. We're talking 3 theatrical movies, with lots of epic sea battles ( hundreds of battle ships on screen), lots of extras in period correct armor fighting, real sets, lots of miniature & CGI effects used for the naval battles and what not. Disney spent 230 $ Million on a Wookie with a metal detector!

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@doublep1980 damm, you kinda sold me on that trilogy.

[@ventzxX]

Weekly Kamen Rider episodes have higher quality than an episode of the Acolyte and I can assure you it cost at best a 1/10th

[@justinm2697]

@@doublep1980 Wasn't there a lady Wookie as well? Perhaps the money was blown on her hairspray.

[@chefsanders9151]

Disney doesn't know how to do anything but fail😂😂😂

[@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

Black Rock Disney*

[@hopegalaxy]

A message to the access media: "Does anyone but you believe your lies?" - Silver the Hedgehog

[@NotLegendary_YT]

The power of one, the power of two, the power of losing 230 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!

[@Rich77UK]

Don't. Never seen the "Acoshite" or anything since the Mandalorian S2. I will not subscribe to Disney -. But that scene was all over youtube and it makes me CRINGE so hard.

[@Liveworkshop]

..dohhhhhhhhlarrrrrs.

[@justincohran7566]

2024 is truly turning into the year of “couldn’t have happened to anyone more deserving”

[@jsbcody]

So, 8 episodes, which were about 30 minutes long equals 240 minutes......which equals $958, 334.00 a minute or $15,972.00 a second. AND those were best costumes and sets, along with writing that they could come up with. Yep, someone embezzled the hell out of Disney.

[@McDLT999999999999999]

Are you counting the 10 minutes of credits?

[@leecummings2949]

Thunderbolts= Tinky Winky, Dipsy, La La, Po! Don't ever question our comic book knowledge again😂

[@21Noelsquires]

It is funny when they say it will upset "half" of your audience, when in reality, it is far more than that, more like 80-90% seeing as they didn't break even with the movies / series, they all justjust flopped massively.

[@ETY20]

I haven't watched one second of Acolyte or ROP, yet I feel pretty knowledgeable about them thanks to Nerdrotic and Drinker.

[@georgepatton6195]

And we the wiser and brighter for their contributions to society

[@ayonmetar2301]

Nerdrotic: I dare you to name me three thunderbolt characters. Me: Thunderwhat?

[@tigerbaby98]

What is a thunderbolt

[@ObiMikenobi]

I cancelled my Disney+ subscription 18 months ago and my life is infinitely better for it. When the videos critiquing their shows are more entertaining you know you’ve fucked up!

[@daveharding9169]

Between DEI, the ego of KK, the creators & actors, the hiring of writers who know little to nothing of the source material/ lore/ comics etc & their inability to just tell a good story, nothing is going to change at Disney. The only hope is that the stock drops low enough for someone to buy it.

[@aqlanimations4822]

I noticed now it seems like Holly Dumb seems to put usually 1 good movie a year to make some money, then go back to pushing the message. So it seems they know they have to have one big hit, or at least 1 movie that doesn't lose money. This mostly seems to be Disney. Think about it, they did Spiderman Far from home that one year, Then Wolverine, then Avatar water whatever. So it seems they put, one to two movies they know will make money followed by the rest being garbage. Well it seems to me all the companies are doing this. I really wish people could understand stop going to all these safe films and then this company would eventually crash. When it does they will eventually get into their pea sized heads or some other company would turn around and make it profitable. One day, or some time, but I know people, they weren't learn.

[@Rich77UK]

"hiring of writers who know little to nothing of the source material, or how to write" Fixed it for you.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

@@aqlanimations4822While that’s a nice theory, it imo tanks if we look at the how and who of these movies. Avatar 2 wasn’t produced by Disney, Disney just had legacy distribution rights. No Way Home was a coproduction with Sony, where the whole team (producers, director and writers) were the people from the very beginning aka Homecoming, which was before the political agenda bs. Deadpool 3 was carried by Ryan Reynolds, who not only stared in it, but also got major producer and writing credits, probably because Bob Chapek gave him a really good contract with lots of power back when Deadpool 3 was green lit. All these movies aren’t examples of Hollywood deliberately doing one big hit, they are examples of someone else than the usual crowd doing those movies. They just show that the wrong people are making these expensive movies and shows as there would be good talent around. They tell a story of how Hollywood mainly fails due to inbreeding and virtue signaling on all positions except when legacy creatives/stars are pulling the strings.

[@aqlanimations4822]

@@davidgantenbein9362 Every year there is one big movie that is almost guaranteed to print money. It could be a theory, but it seems more frequent and if you think about it, they do have to have some source of income to pay for all these things. I think with HOTD and Velma. They made HOTD knowing it would print money and get actual eyes WB, now before season 2 of HOTD they put a lot of money after Velma season 2 to come out. Don't ask me why, I doubt it gets many eyes since it's awful I didn't mean every one of the movies are Disney. Nerdrotic said it pretty good, they have to have some money rolling in. Even with the BR money, they can't have every movie be a flop or they would eventually burst. I am saying I wish that people would let it burst, stop even going to their little better shows, there's so many now free and way better alternatives, more than we could probably watch in a life time. If it collapsed, then they would have to have smaller better focused shows IMO since they know their not going to make any money otherwise. Now there are low budget films that are INDIE and and have nothing to do with Hollyweird which I don't think counts. Am I racist, made money and still is, but isn't pushing the message, but rather than exposing it.

[@matthew90276]

Acolyte Budget $230 million - Massive flop Squid Game Budget $21.4 million - Massive hit worldwide.

[@TheJohn8765]

Or Godzilla: Minus One with a ~17 mill budget, pretty solid VFX, and a box office of over 500.

[@farharbor3178]

@@TheJohn8765I’ve pointed this out as well. They spent more on Acolyte PER episode than Godzilla -1 😂

[@clvrswine]

Your comment: not funny and rather lame for even knowing a budget about any thing, anywhere. Budget-knower. No one asked.

[@derlich09]

@@clvrswine 😭😭😭

[@matthew90276]

@@clvrswine Weird how you attack me for pointing out one of the facts Gary(Nerdrotic) mentioned in his video. I guess you're too frightened to get mad at a big creator and instead randomly attack a commenter lol

[@michaelmacleod6517]

We dodged a bullet. It would have been double the cost for Season Two.

[@andygeorgeparkinson2515]

Hey Cheer Up …..Headlander and her singing girl got a bucket load of money out of those old videos her Boss Wiensrien gave her ……why else would Disney executives have handed the budget , production , filming AND Casting over to her a Total Unknown ..????🤔🤷🏼

[@dub537h5]

I feel like this needs to be spoken about more. Who sought her out and offered the job? It never made sense to me!

[@James_Bee]

Money laundering and insurance fraud.

[@SheldonAdama17]

Disney is like Thanos but incompetent and less sympathetic

[@councilofkarens729]

To quote The Critical Drinker, The Acolyte is like a turd that you just can't flush away.

[@ElValuador]

The Joker in The Dark Knight has got nothing on modern Hollywood.

[@nicknevco215]

He cared about something

[@farvencore]

He only burned half.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

@@farvencoreAnd that was actually his own half, not someone else’s money. … damn, when the Joker is less morally bankrupt 😮

[@psycrow6699]

Wow. Remember when Disney “straight to DVD” was always crap and so they made them cheap? Someone should have reminded them 😂

[@fantomforces]

Gary said, "full release' and 'shrinkage' in this episode.

[@davidcoleman757]

How much genuine Good could have been done with that money? Guess we could all come up with a better use of 230 mil.

[@GreatUSTreasureHunt]

There will be an AI movie on a major streaming service produced with nothing but prompts, and perhaps two or three known actors supplying voice work. This will happen within twelve months.

[@Neobatz]

Impending doom...

[@GreatUSTreasureHunt]

@@Neobatz I think the opposite. You'll instead have filmmakers that don't have any interference from studios or lines of producers, and will be telling stories exactly the way they want. At almost no cost. Let's say Zach Snyder (just to say it) has locked himself in a room for seven months, prompting an AI moviemaking app on the exact movie he wants. He controls character design, camera angles and movements, story, dialogue, score, production design...everything...with prompts. He can ask AI to have two characters which it has already modeled to walk down a dimly lit alley in light rain as the camera swoops down from above, and he can keep refining the prompts until the shot is exactly right. With enough prompts, he makes the entire movie without outside influence. Once finished, he announces it's for sale to the highest bidder. His cost has only been time. It won't be Zach Snyder, but some version of this will happen soon. And the result will be astonishing

[@davidgantenbein9362]

230 million dollars is quite expensive for what basically is a failed pilot for a series. Maybe old school Hollywood wasn’t so stupid, when it invented the pilot episode?

[@RolfHartmann]

$230 million, factoring for inflation is the budget of 1970's Waterloo, and they had something like 17,000 extras for that!

[@Grigorii-j7z]

Those Weinshtein parties must be really wild. Bob had to pay so much for silence.

[@Br_pow]

"No you pissed half of your audience!" No they pissed off 99% of theyr audience

[@HellsFallenAngel1]

Wonder if they'll make movie about this period of Hollywood History.

[@kyledabearsfan]

Remember when Star Wars was good... Pepperidge Farms remembers

[@theelder4797]

I member...

[@caveatlector2671]

@@theelder4797 Well, howdy Pepperidge Farms... 🤪

[@dangelini1137]

The prequels dont looks so bad now do they?

[@kyledabearsfan]

@@dangelini1137 honestly I liked them before, but I'm weird and liked Jar Jar Binks enough o dress as him on Halloween as a kid 🤣 he's beginning to look way better nowadays

[@dearthditch]

But at this point the remainder of the Pepperidge Generation don’t have long on this Earth. Lucky bastards 😅

[@lscales6131]

I refuse to watch anything Star Wars until Disney no longer owns them. So I’m done.

[@HDGaminTutorials]

Money laundering its happening all over the country these movies and shows barely look like 10 dollars let alone 230 million. Where is this money going?

[@TheJohn8765]

Hollywood Accounting is a farce that should have been eliminated decades ago. It is just a way to bilk the tax system so they can give their shareholders billions of dollars of dividends while eliminating their tax burden. AKA: taking money from you to give to the already-rich. It's obscene. But hey, instead of focusing on that, worry about some weirdo gender-fluid characters representation and how mean the Internet is.... We are so fucked.

[@theelder4797]

To transport little ones into tunnels that lead to mansions owned by those on the list of Epshhhhteen.

[@XrandomnessX]

Hush money and sexual assault lawsuit settlements I bet

[@don.keebles]

Those P Diddy parties aren't cheap

[@majacq1]

My thoughts exactly. The Deep State, of what Disney is a main participant, has been finding their nefarious acts through movies, mortgages and foreign aid for awhile now.

[@za4710]

Hollywood is DEAD 😂😂😂

[@jamesconkey1480]

Spent 230 million.... on what??

[@donwyoming1936]

I take it the director & writers were paid $20M plus... each

[@BARDI77]

I guess diversity hiring, if you keep hiring people by their skin color and what they fuck instead of if they are the most suitable for a job you will end up with a lower quality product that is more expensive

[@A1Cynic70]

Strapons

[@laraq07]

Any info on how much Amandla Stenberg was paid ... $3M is what I seem to have heard.

[@malcontender6319]

Demoralization.

[@rossmackay-williams4583]

A personnel assistant gets a job producing a TV program.....nothing to see here folks

[@vacantcontentment8863]

Since they took Walt out of Disney it's been downhill ever since..

[@AncestorEmpire1]

It’s a bigger joke than Mark Hamill’s parenting

[@nicknevco215]

He's a parent scary

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@nicknevco215 yep.

[@hungchoonghow5857]

Asian porn star crime.

[@Mereologist]

@@nicknevco215 A terrible one, actually.

[@noooooobica]

To be fair, his father did destroy all the Jedi…/s

[@davish7864]

Damn, it really keeps coming back faster than an immortal Uruk in Shadow of War!

[@Serendipitous-Salamander]

You brought back some hateful memories with that comment. 😂

[@Tallacus]

And they offered a quarter, A QUARTER raise for those who work at Disney Parks

[@ianoz1]

So, they've "spent" another $50 Million to add to that tax write-off (money laundering). The only thing creative about this show was the accounting.

[@blackcorp0001]

Tony Montana would be proud

[@FillenNaymeer]

Its dead, but i have this image in my mind. Many years from now, 20, 30, 40 maybe. Once the bloated corpse has long since decomposed away, along with disney The ip having sat, quiet and dark, in the hands of whatever conglomerate seized it from disney during its downfall. Gets dragged out, dusted off and brought once more to a table of producers And from that moment they either repeat all the mistakes of the past or maybe, just maybe in my old age, if somehow the world has gotten sane again, and someone at the table has a small ember of love for the ip and a vision for where to take it We might see something good again

[@TheKpa11]

Yeah that will probably happen. All of Disney’s franchises are immortal no matter how assassinated their stories become or are reshaped. The base of them all are eternal. I still find that pathetic regardless if it becomes “good” again because it seemingly encourages to destroy what was forged by others. To then reshape it and call it their own. I’m not a naive fool to think it’s not happened in the past, but the disrespect is still sinful. It’s not right……..

[@Pizzpott]

Well it's $804,000 a minute now - and it's hysterical.

[@keithrobinson5752]

It's getting into the billions of dollars the dead hands of KK cost Disney. But they keep their job WTF

[@Kendabearfan]

But hey they got 80K signatures to bring it back....lol

[@jonathanflynn6674]

That’s only $2,875.00 per person to make a second season

[@shawnstark7622]

@@jonathanflynn6674 Yeah, maybe if they loved it so much they should start a go fund me for S2!

[@OmegaZyion]

Yes, bring it back and double.. no triple the budget!

[@abcun17]

Dismal Disney just announced a fresh round of adios employees...amid "corporate restructuring"...

[@MaD0MaT]

Hollywierd ended itself by an thousand cuts. Slowly. From writers strikes back in the day that shortened tv series seasons to max 10 episodes to going full woke. It was slow and prolonged, but now they're on the death bed.

[@duke927]

They’ll continue to get ESG money from Black Rock et ilk.

[@muznick]

The powerrr of maaaannnnyyyy dollars.

[@normiethenavi4321]

Thunder bolt, nut and bolt, rusty bolt, no idea who da feck is Agatha???

[@calcariachimera]

Here's thunderbolts names: -Cloud-to-ground flash -Intra-cloud lightning -Cloud-to-air flash -Spider lightning -Red sprite -thunder

[@TheJohn8765]

230 on a dogshit show. Just imagine how many African villages could have clean wells, instead. (and I kinda mean that; this endless pissing away of money into a dark hole of garbage is totally bs)

[@indiajohnson]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@knotengajin7359]

Would still be wasted dollars as those villages tend to dismantle foreign infrastructure for raw materials once the builders leave.

[@Ron_Jambo_]

And OBVIOUSLY you have a plethora of examples of that and you aren't just lying out of your ass about countries you know nothing about ,right ? ​@@knotengajin7359

[@KristopherWilson-l3s]

Ik right that money could have to sick children in India

[@matthewgallagher8491]

I doubt those wells, would've been dug and that water pumped. Those nations have issues with corruption and fraud. $50 for the wells and pumping, and the rest would go into leaderships'bank accounts, and have to pay for the inspections from the ministry of pencil sharpeners and it's administration

[@snugsmchuggsly5449]

I cant begin to fathom how an 8 episode show that run less than 40 minutes balloons to $230?????

[@shishisei]

there must be some creative Accounting to get a tax break. This show doesn't look like a show 1/3 of this budget

[@lamNoJedi]

Skeleton crew premieres in December. And they released a 4 episode of a lego special. The lego shows are usually decent

[@the6ig6adwolf]

Can't wait for Diddy to name names and watch Hollywood scramble.

[@nicknevco215]

He suddenly disappear soon

[@jamesconkey1480]

He will get Epsteined

[@MrHeuristics]

And 2 hours after this video aired, Disney axed about 300 employees across multiple corporate departments.

[@shotgunwound]

Thunderbolts looks so lame

[@calvinjohnstone2664]

Rings got beaten by the Penguin 😆😆😆😆👍

[@A1Cynic70]

230 million dollars!!! That's a truck load of thrustmaster 5000's with rotating fists!!! Those space witches must be exhausted.

[@rogerborg]

I was going to say "Thrustmaster is a brand of joystick", but that works too.

[@davids2977]

The Acoshyte had to have been a massive money laundering scheme for that to be the budget.

[@givmi_more_w9251]

5:00 Is that Zack Snyder math? He blabbed on Joe Roegan about how Rebel Moon was more successful than Barbie because ... multiple people on average watch per streaming account?

[@justinrodriguez5957]

*Looks at title* Oh no. Oh noooo. 🤣

[@Vaelosh466]

It's funny that they're blaming Disney for giving it too much budget while in the same paragraph admitting they're wondering where the $630,000 per minute went. Imagine how much more awful it would be if they only had 1/2 or 1/4 of the budget to make it.

[@vmoutsop]

Three Thunderbolts: Snap, Crackle & Pop.

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

Three Thunderbolts: Citizen V, MACH and Goliath.

[@thelegendaryklobb2879]

Moe, Larry and Curly?

[@vmoutsop]

@@thelegendaryklobb2879 🤣🤣🤣

[@annapajak5116]

Did you hear Stephen Baldwin speak recently on storytelling in Hollywood.. something about putting shows through a Netflix filter.. nothing about about caring for the storytelling..

[@stephenc2527]

Disney generally has more subs because they give it away with other products like phones and parents subbing so they can have access to the old Disney Library for the kiddos.

[@calamitysi]

There have rarely been times where I've seen a 10/10 first episode of anything, but the first episode of The Penguin was definitely one of those times.

[@laffing_hwhitee]

Has everybody forgot about BOB IGER'S influence on "THE VIEW" ! ! ! 🤨🤨🤨

[@M24071]

Lesley Headland is a genius she laundered off so much money from the acolyte that she wouldn't have to work a day in life ever again

[@sushilmangal]

It feels so satisfying to see Disney loosing more and more money. Let's go Disney...

[@velinnedelchev2698]

Remember when they said, they didn't show the fight between the Wookie Jedi and Smilo Ren because they didn't have the budget for that.

[@uberyoutuber3892]

HBO likely doesn’t have the available budget to give a show $200+ million, USD of course. So I’d expect Penguin’s budget is around $115 million or so about 1/2 the $230 million Disney gave Acolyte. So even if Penguin’s views are similar to Acolyte at 340 million views it’s a success because it cost half as much to make for the same return.

[@nerdock4747]

2:25 Am I so out of touch...? No, it's the audience who are wrong. - Hollywood

[@calcariachimera]

Nerdrotic is my happy place in life.....

[@Howlabunga]

If only Disney could be more like Sega back when everyone demanded they change Sonic's movie look in 2019.

[@Alex-xr8kn]

What’s thunderbolts?

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

All the B grade characters from the last 5 years in a shit movie

[@skibo3522]

Yo Gary, I don't know who coined the phrase but it's been in the background this whole while, "TOXIC POSITIVITY'! HollyWeird will ignore ALL the Real Reasons for failure after Failure unless and Until the Independent Films are given enough monies to actually create REAL MOVIES once again. Thanks for the Post.

[@lorentaylor9189]

In live chats and comments for videos for a couple of months, I predicted the final amount would be 225 million... and I underestimated the final tally. Way to go Disney. Bring on Season 2 and spend 300 million this time.

[@dlewis9760]

It's probably a bit more. They shot the stuff over there. They most likely edited the stuff over here and you have to toss in a few million for "Walking Around Money" like the press and content makers.

[@colebrandt9302]

97% hate the Acolyte 3%defend it 97% love The Penguin 3% are broke😂

[@Sparticulous]

Imagine how much housing could have been produced with it, or how much of that could have just been put into the stock market

[@MrArdhes]

230 Million?! how, why for that pile of garbage, we could have had three solid shows with that amount of money

[@tgrbac99]

Give up Disney! We have the higher ground!

[@Kabacisdead]

I'm probably the only person in the universe who actually really liked Ghost and is happy to see her again in a movie.... :)

[@crimsonpotemkin]

It's insanity that the CEO's get to lose billions and not lose their jobs

[@drfirechief8958]

More pissed off than usual Nerdrotic, I LOVE IT!!

[@AVisionofTruth]

Is this the Concord of Hollywood?

[@nicknevco215]

Much cheaper

[@AVisionofTruth]

@@nicknevco215 too bad. Maybe the dei'd lotr will match the L

[@justinrodriguez5957]

Nah, not close to half a billion.....yet apparently.

[@adamkares7549]

Hollywood is the Concord of Hollywood

[@SpiderAds-86]

No. Concorde was actually innovative and technically brilliant. It could have been a stepping stone to bigger and better things only air travel moved more towards large slower planes (it was also profitable in its later years). This on the other hand has almost no redeeming features.

[@JJ-cc7gx]

Where do I sign the petition for more Acolyte and Disney Scar Warts?

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Why would you want to?

[@JJ-cc7gx]

@@dcmastermindfirst9418 to bankrupt Disney Scar Warts