An Unedited Opper From Quantum. I Gave Him the Q-Ball Nickname, You Know. Has He Ever Thanked Me? Nope. I Coulda Said Q-Tip, But I Didn’t. Q-Ball is Like Cue Ball. Much Cooler. Oh Well. I’ll Just Sit Here In Pity.
Q-Ball here, reporting in the towns primer center THE FRANCHISE ZONE. I’ve been looking through the pricings and I’ve got to say that I’ve seen a startling pattern. Any movie that Krisgreet seemly doesn’t know about gets priced at 25 million. No, not 30 million not 20 million not even 5 million dollars; nope it seems to all be 25 million.
Why am I talking about this? Simple, I think there is trouble a-brewing. Recently, Cassy inquired on the rights to Mitchell, the cheezy 70’s action movie, which has gotten horrid reviews on IMDB recently. When Kris got around to pricing it, he seemed to put it into his “unknown” movie pile and simply priced it at 25 million. Needless to say - Cassy has responded.
Mitchell is a film that doesn’t deserve to be priced at 25 million; there is only one reason why it shouldn’t: it’s a cheezy b-movie from the 70’s. Why in the hell should it be 25 million dollars? It didn’t even have a cult following… it’s a movie that never offered anything special… it wasn’t a Starsky & Hutch and it certainly wasn’t a Dukes of Hazzard it was just plain bad. I’ve seen the movie and I presume Cassy & Bennyman have seen it to.
I’ll say this: I understand where Kris is coming from. He’s got franchise pitches coming from producers everyday. He has to go and do some research on the franchises. He’s got to come up with a fair price for each franchise. However, putting a set cost on a crappy b-movie doesn’t seem to be fair. It seems to be over-costly.
If he had done some research then he could’ve seen the following: The bad reviews and the cheezyness/low budget quality of the flick. Kris, if you are reading this, when you see a movie you don’t know about just go onto Wikipedia and search it up or go on IMDB… you’ll find the price you need by doing that. I know it maybe a pain but it’s better doing this then having to argue about “set prices.”
Cassy’s comment got me thinking; what other movies have been overpriced? For one, awhile ago I asked for the price of a LOW LOW budget horror flick called Trigger Man. You know what the price was? guess - 25 million dollars. That’s incredibly overpriced considering the leading actor has only ever appeared in one movie before… Trigger Man.
So, I’ll leave with one thought, do you believe some franchises have been over-priced? For me, I believe some have been, and some are under-priced, but that is another story.
The sky is the limit… don’t overprice it.
