The best movie that most people turned off after 20 minutes of 2023 is back to making noise, as writer-director Zack Snyder wants to convince us Rebel Moon: Part 1 would have made as much money as Barbie ($1.4 billion) had it opened in theaters, instead of dropping exclusively on Netflix.
Even those who’d faithfully defended each of the divisive filmmaker’s movies and enjoyed the first Rebel Moon are scratching their heads right now, as the number-crunching that Snyder performed to arrive at such a wild conclusion while talking to Variety seems dubious to say the least.
Before I dig into why this is the kind of delusional talk you’d expect from his rabid fanbase instead of the man himself, here’s the full quote: “You think about Netflix, for instance, where you push a button… Rebel Moon, right? Say right now it’s almost at 90 million views, right? 80 or 90 million accounts turned it on, give or take. They assume two viewers per screening, right? That’s the kind of math. So you think if that movie was in the theater as a distribution model, that’s like 160,000,000 people supposedly watching based on that math. 160,000,000 people at $10 a ticket would be… what is that math? I don’t know. 160,000,000 times ten. That’s 1.6 billion. So more people probably saw ‘Rebel Moon’ than saw ‘Barbie’ in the theater, right?”
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