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orangegato · 02/06/2025 06:43

She is a fucking queen.

SionnachRuadh · 02/06/2025 06:40

Hollywood accounting is notoriously obscure and sometimes it's hard to know what the budget really is. But the production budget doesn't cover marketing and distribution costs, so a usual rule of thumb is that a film has to make 2.5 times its budget at the box office before the studio starts to turn a profit.

There's a big problem at the moment of budgets becoming too bloated, especially with so much investment in the superhero genre that audiences are starting to tire of. Some blockbusters (the last Indiana Jones) were so ridiculously expensive that even if audiences were interested in seeing them, it was almost mathematically impossible for them to be profitable.

The whole thing's overdue for a correction. For some reason, nobody makes mid-budget films any more, like romcoms that are pretty cheap once you've paid your stars. Even Disney can only absorb so many mega-budget flops.

NutellaEllaElla · 02/06/2025 05:58

I’d love to know how $400 million in box office revenue, against a film making budget of $250 million, constitutes a flop. I’m not arguing it, I have no knowledge what the revenue translates to, did it cover costs? Crap journalism.

letsallchant · 02/06/2025 00:05

Also, they point out she willingly pays the highest rate of income tax. Americans can't get their heads round anyone doing that.

TheTwoLeggedGrooveMachine · 02/06/2025 00:05

She's a remarkable woman and I have so much admiration for her. $250 million donations plus setting up Beira's Place is some how a stick to beat her with? Absolute nonsense.

lcakethereforeIam · 01/06/2025 23:59

I'd forgotten about the MS charity. I wonder if Stephen Whittle has ever benefitted from it and how they'd feel about that? I suspect JKR wouldn't begrudge it. MS is a dreadful disease.

letsallchant · 01/06/2025 23:58

$250 million to those good causes, and yet people are ignorant enough to say 'she doesn't do anything that isn't attacking trans rights'. I imagine her mother would be very proud. She has done a lot of good work with her fortune.

Datun · 01/06/2025 23:42

Yes, it was rather snippy.

Still,

“How do you sleep at night knowing you’ve lost a whole audience from buying your books,” wrote one X user in 2022.

“I read my most recent royalty cheques,” Rowling replied, “and find the pain goes away pretty quickly.”

I bet

LibertyKnickers · 01/06/2025 23:28

'A talented woman with too much money and the wrong opinions to boot!'

Not quite 'Burn the witch!' but the spitefulness and jealousy are palpable.

Annascaul · 01/06/2025 23:01

Llamasarellovely · 01/06/2025 22:57

Such a mean spirited article, though.

Wasn’t it just?

MarieDeGournay · 01/06/2025 23:01

Llamasarellovely · 01/06/2025 22:57

Such a mean spirited article, though.

I agree - they call her anti-trans, and say she opposes trans rights.
However, they also write that
. Forbes estimates she has donated more than $250 million in the past 20 years, primarily to three causes: Lumos, which has helped more than 280,000 abandoned children in orphanages in Romania, Haiti, Colombia and Ukraine; Volant, which supports victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence as well as at-risk children in Scotland; and the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, which treats patients with neurological conditions such as MS, the disease that took her mother’s life when Rowling was just 25.

It's hard to maintain that she is a hateful meanspirited bigot alongside that!

Llamasarellovely · 01/06/2025 22:57

Such a mean spirited article, though.

claretsage · 01/06/2025 22:56

She has a lot of quiet supporters

Pleasantsort · 01/06/2025 22:48

Love it !
Couldn't happen to a nicer woman ! We love you JK and thank you ! ❤️

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