The standard today is the same as in 1939: it if does well in the first-run U.S. theaters, it is a success, if not, not. It doesn't matter how many Chinese see the movie on their bootleg versions.
I picked this particular movie because the script did stink. Awful, but tight to the success formula.
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) lost $78 million
In order to support or promote your opinion, you stated that the movie "lost $78 million" when actually the movie has made a profit of $213 million thus far.
BTW. The movie owners don't get paid for for Chinese bootleg versions, that's the point of a bootleg and why they are called bootleg versions.
A clear profit of $213 million is less than the makers forecast, but certainly not a disaster. There are many movies that make a loss or barely recoup their production costs. Edge of Tomorrow is not one of them. It got panned mainly because of a current fashion for anti Tom Cruise feelings within the media press and the public.
Cinema goers on the first run don't know the script stinks, they haven't seen the movie or heard the script played out yet. The industry analyst consensus upon the low first run figures in the USA has been put down to the title, 'Edge of Tomorrow' not being meaningful or evocative to the US moive consumers. Attendance picked up when they gave it the additional tag-line; 'Live, Die, Repeat.'
There is so much misinformation, fabricated news and made up shit bandied about nowadays, by governments, corporations, media organisations and individuals that it makes me both angry and sad. Somebody like you simply made up VW's fuel emission and fuel economy figures and felt justified in that act because the lies supported a 'fact' that they wanted the public to believe. A point they wanted to make. It has become routine behaviour. You write fiction, I know that; but do you ever stop or draw a line?
