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Skyscraper
2018 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber
Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
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A movie can make back its budget just by being a hit in China.
This is how we get movies like Skyscraper(2018)[0]. $120M budget. $70M from US/Canada. $300 from "worldwide" and most of that was from China. Just the Chinese opening weekend alone was $48M.
Transformers: Age of Extinction. $210M budget. China alone provided $300M of profit.
All you need to do is hire Chinese actors for side characters, set a bit of your movie in China and not talk about Taiwan. Easy money =)
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5758778/
I've been wanting to go on a cruise lately. They look so fun.
It seems like there's about 2,000 people or more on a ship. They are entire floating cities with their own water treatment, jail(the brig), a morgue, own newspaper/letter, in-house tv station - I was looking at technical jobs on cruise ships one day and seen that one has like their own little morning show, etc.
However I doubt a small town with 2,000 people would equal 2 million cars worth...
I know I seen a few years ago one cruise line was playing with hydrogen fuel cells. https://youtu.be/oI9OmoMwz5s
Cruise ships kinda remind me of future ideas like arcologies or Skyscraper Movie (2018).
Seems neat everything is within walking distance and self sufficient in the middle of the ocean. Well they still need fuel and food supplies when they dock and prepare for the next ship... but imagine if they could build farms on sea too...
Seems like the ocean with the right power solution would be virtually unlimitless water and electric.
I love my Android TV, but I had to uninstall "Google play movies and TV" from it a few nights ago. It was playing movie trailers in the background of the home screen. I don't need to watch the trailer for skyscraper on continuous loop.
It happened with me last night watching the movie Skyscraper, I could feel my body twitching during the fight scenes.