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[–] 6 pts

Let's be honest here. Space Jam was a fun campy movie based on a gimmick. A sequel would have bombed even if they had the original cast. It's even worse with LeBron James. Whoever bankrolled this movie was either a moron or looking to launder some money.

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the budget was $150 million and they made $200 million. By streaming this forever they can easily make an extra million a year for the next 50 years and divy that all up in royalties.

Movies dont lose money. I doubt you can even name one big budget film that lost money.

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Exactly. And then people say the left can't meme. Their movies ARE their memes! They can push whatever filth they want, and they won't lose anything from it! Does anyone on the right have hundreds of millions to make their own movies? Probably not, and even if they did they will never be allowed on cinema or major streaming services.

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Books too. Try finding a non-jewy book written in the last 70 years. Even supposed "based" or "right-wing" books have an underlying element of prior assumptions that are a direct result of jewish takeover.

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Cutthroat Island and others. Not listed in the budget is marketing and other promos. Theres a hidden economy to these movies that they don't include in order to pump up the stats. And they still flop. Movies can definitely lose money based on how much was invested.

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the hidden economy part works the other way. they artificially pump up the budget to claim they didnt make money so they dont have to pay bonuses to actors or pay taxes.

cutthroat island is a 1995 film and it was foreign made with actors and directors i never heard of but ill give it a shot. So the budget was $100 million. worldwide box office was $18 million. But that figure doesnt include tv licensing, vhs sales, royalties from the video game, dvd, and blueray. A year after But it has been 25 years and it is still pulling in money. It is streaming on youtube, apple tv, amazon prime, google play, and vudu.

One month after the film was released Carolco pictures filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in which they sold its assets for $58 million to 20th century fox. However it is unclear what this included since most of its assets were already sold prior to the bankruptcy. It is clear that the two owners made out with plenty of cash, Mario Kassar has a net worth of $50 million and Andrew G vajna is worth $150 million.

Kassar paid himself a salary of $4 million a year and made business purchases like a $15 million private jet that he billed to the company.

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How do you launder money through failed movies?

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All money laundering does is conceal the source of money and integrate it into the financial system. This can involve a successful or non-successful business venture. Every person you ever want a kickback from can be given a financial stake in a film.

Take lebron. You can’t exactly take a paycheck for pushing Racial disharmony. However if i make a movie there is plausible deniability if i cut lebron a big check. Easy. This is why mike pence got a 4 million dollar book advancd.

Thats just the star. Now if i wanted to give a kickback to say a judge for ruling a certain way i could give a friend of their friends law firm a role in the film as a consultant. Let them run up whatever legal fees i want. The favor trickles back to the judge through a network of corruption. We can make this as complicated and obfuscated as you would want.

Point is that anytime you need to spread money or favors around where the reason and source of the money cannot be known, a film offers a great opportunity for this.