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Originally Posted by The CyNick If it was that easy to make money in movies, I would make a movie every day of the week. By the logic presented in the first post, I'd be guaranteed to make money, so why stop at one, why not make a million? I cant say forsure that this is a money losing venture, because they have at least been smart and limited spending to $15-20 million for each project. But at the same time, I cant see it making a ton of money or even breaking even for that matter? For the simple reason that A) it will look cheesy compared to most movies due to the low budget, then B) its going to be produced by WWE and therefore will have no credibility among the average movie goer and C) with the limited budget they will get killed in terms of advertising because most major films spend tens of millions of dollars to promote their films.

YOu're forgetting one thing: Name recognition. It's the reason why AVP will do so good despite having such a horrible and inaccurate plot (Why they didn't make the movie based on the videogames is beyond me...) People will waste their money on a movie just because they've heard of one of the actors. If everyone was as frugal as one would think, we wouldn't have people talking on their cell phones during movies that are plenty entertaining and get rave reviews.

And most movies pay the WWE to advertise during Raw and Smackdown. In the WWE's case, they'll have four hours a week of airtime to promote their shows for free, so advertising won't be as big of an issue as one would think.

Originally Posted by Kane Knight To be fair, fans of genres are idiots. There are fans of the horror genre, whose primary thought process is "is it a horror flick?" There's a reason there have only been four plots in horror in the last 20 years, and nobody's been bright enough to notice. Same goes for romantic comedies.

I agree to an extent. I happen to be a huge fan of horror movies, but I hate about 9 out of 10 horror movies that come out because they all have the same plot. (Movie begins, a teenage couple is making out/having sex and a scary guy with *insert slasher weapon here* sneaks up and kills them. The rest of the movie is spent with other teenagers having sex while solving the big scooby doo mystery of why the killer guy is killing everyone. One person survives to find out that they didn't kill the bad guy after all and the sequel repeats the process.) But if there's a specific method to these plots that works and sells, wouldn't that mean that a Kane movie with the same plot layout would sell well?

Originally Posted by Head Seriously, if they're so intent on making movies, they should be making comedies, not horror flicks. At least a comedy doesn't have to be seen as "credible" as much as other movies do for people to go out and see it.

A comedy? Seriously, I'd rather watch the John Cena marine movie that takes itself way too seriously than the John Cena movie that uses the word "poop" 600 times.




But really......Why doesn't Vince work more on making his tv shows more entertaining? Why doesn't he work harder on getting money for his pay-per-views? Does he think that wrestling is a sinking ship that he has to abandon immediately? He's tried so many times before to get out of wrestling, one could make an accurate assumption that he doesn't trust us fans or his product. I'm certain that if he were any bit of a businessman, he would stop trying to expand his empire and focus on the crumbling base that his company was founded upon.