The My Little Pony Movie

@Mikey  
My understanding was that there was a little padding in there for the creation of new assets as well as the studio setup costs. So, in some ways, this premier movie of the studio also helped create the studio, so there were some additional staffing and infrastructure costs that subsequent movies from AllSpark probably won’t see.
 
We’ll have to wait to see what the AllSpark investor statements say, basically.

@LightningBolt  
Few doubt the validity of those emails.

@Josh103  
Considering how far some are for a hoax, i do.

@Vortaxonus  
@Vortaxonus  
If you can’t discuss this politely, please take a break. Those kinds of statements are not welcome here.
 
@Anonycat  
You really aren’t helping the situation.
 
 
@Anonycat  
@Vortaxonus  
And, because apparently it needs to be said again, please do not link to illegal content. I know you aren’t going to, but just in case anyone ELSE gets the great idea that it would “solve everything”.

Geez, I left to play MK8, what happened?

@Vortaxonus  
If you want to, sure.
 
But you might as well doubt the official reported numbers also.

@ILoveMyoozik  
shit started

@Josh103  
Having interacted with a movie studio in the past, I can assure you that the numbers are not the numbers.
 
But, AllSpark was created, and now Hasbro has it’s own movie studio, and that in and of itself is a gigantic win.
 
After that, making money is just making money.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Just banter about the movie’s success or failure.
 
If you ask me, I enjoyed it. Both the banter and the movie.

@Vortaxonus  
Shit’s ended, right? So I can close the reports and get back to playing MineCraft?

@Josh103  
Aawwwww, I wanted to enjoy the banter too, but I was playing Mario Kart 8.  
As for the movie, I thought it was okay.

I read all those e-nails, and their concern was for the critical reception and the development hell of the movie, not how much money it made.
 
The leak was from the creative team after all.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Drama.

@Ciaran  
If Hasbro wants to make more films, they would need a distributor like past films had.

@warc9  
Of course…

@Anonycat  
It’s a legitimate question holy fuck  
Also what the fuck does me being a mod have to do with this?

@ILoveMyoozik  
Have some unrelated silliness.
 

I remember saying i was thinking about quitting MLP after the movie….I don’t know what kind of drugs i was taking when i said that.
 
 
Honestly at this point, if you enjoyed the movie, that’s all that really matters.

tl:DR
 
best I can tell it made 8 mill in profit not counting toys, soundtrack, ect…

@Ciaran  
You can always play with the numbers, that’s the beauty of accounting. But even internally, there’s gotta be some degree of semblance of accuracy.
 
Of course it can be all summed up as “the movie made money yay, but not as much as we hoped for so we won’t make another one for now” anyway.

@Mikey  
because he doesn’t have the balls to have his view on how the world works challenged. To bring up the quote from silver quill again, if someone thinks they know how the world works, they only know half of it (in my opinion, AT BEST). Either that or he fears getting permabanned like he should.
 
 
@Philweasel  
So even if he did link to the emails, it’s wouldn’t help his point much.

I read the whole drama. It made my drama back in the unpopular opinions thread look like tea with the Queen. Holy crap!
 
@warc9  
Thanks! <3
 
@LeoNero  
I’m glad that you didn’t.

@Hollowfox the Stallion  
Yes, but now they have a studio. In the past they’ve used other studios to create their movies, and now they can retain more of the $ChaChing! and more of the creative control.
 
Distribution is just staging, networks, and trucks.
 
Studios is control and ownership and profit.
 
@Josh103  
Oh, heck yes. But from all that I’ve seen I don’t think this was meant to be a cash cow for the company. They had to spin off a whole new division, and this was the movie they chose as the experiment. That it worked at all is a gigantic success - although it’s also completely valid to be disappointed by the numbers.
 
The first time is almost always more expensive than it seems it should have been. Next time they’ll have a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.
 
And now, Hasbro can own and do Hasbro, instead of licensing things out to other studios (except Paramount, who they’ve already said can retain the license for Transformers).
 
It’ll be interesting to see where they go next :)
 
Has anyone heard any rumors of what AllSpark’s next project will be? Seems like they should already be working on something by now.

@ILoveMyoozik  
Np!

@Vortaxonus  
Can you stop? He’s not getting permabanned.