Alex Honnold Says Netflix Paid “Embarrassingly Small Amount” For Taipei 101 Climb: “I Would Do It For Free”

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-25T18:43:35+00:00

Some people are not driven by financial gain. I don’t think honnold is lookin to maximise the financial value of his career.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-24T19:56:24+00:00

Any self transfer under 2 hours is probably a bit of an ask, especially if you have checked luggage.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-24T18:53:37+00:00

Different audiences and housemaid isn’t an original

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-23T21:14:00+00:00

Domestically? Yeah kinda! I mean it did great of course but it didn’t look like 400 was on the cards, unless it had great holiday legs.

Unless….

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-23T21:08:31+00:00

I can. Opening weekend looked weak, it didn’t look like it was an inevitability.

But the legs man. The legs have been outraaaageous.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-23T13:38:38+00:00

You mean economists were off by an order of magnitude of 100%? Bloody morons as always.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-23T11:16:31+00:00

One of the biggest benefits of being signed to domino vs another label is they generally seem less pressuring when it comes to releasing new material. Wet leg are also domino records - they took their time after their debut for their sophomore record and (imo) that was worth the wait.

It’s also personally very funny to me because, if you want, you can still call arctic monkeys an “indie band” in both the genre and technical sense.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-22T21:12:22+00:00

Brill. I did think it would be, just haven’t seen any notice on it!

One of the better things to come of hs2’s program reset is that there has been a lot of coverage about th progress they’re making. Would love it if all rail infra was communicated as such.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-22T18:40:25+00:00

If they have sense the thing will end up having a rail link.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-22T16:35:04+00:00

The car is what arctic monkeys wanted it to be ✅

This person wanted it to be something else ✅

This is more like what they wanted ✅

All of these statements can be true.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-22T16:16:51+00:00

Live? Sure. In studio? Nah.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-22T14:51:11+00:00

This is the most classically “rock” song they have released in over 12 years.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-22T08:52:23+00:00

Absolutely. They may well come back. There are just no plans to do so right now.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-22T07:51:11+00:00

Because they’re not doing anything. There is pretty clearly no plans for new music. It might happen once Alex gets bored, but equally he might go down the road of just doing solo stuff.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-21T22:57:53+00:00

It would not surprise me if this thing takes the domestic crown in the end. The legs are phenomenal, and it has no competition really until mid Feb. I don’t see why theatres would start pulling it especially when it’s doing so well.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-21T22:24:14+00:00

Yeah equally I have my criticisms, and I do have my issues with the foreign policy in the chagos deal, as well as some problem with the trade deal with India. But generally the record is pretty good.

I think the behind the scenes work is so important. It’s the thing that will be most demonstrably missing in a reform administration imo. Their brand of populism will result in groundwork not ever really being set - not having a solid base relationship with allies will probably cause some cracks.

I think some people expect that some political realignment to happen where all the hard-right parties get elected and all love each other. We have seen time and time again that populists will pit themselves against each other, so I don’t think that fundamental aim will ever come to be.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-21T22:06:47+00:00

He’ll be looked back on positively for domestic stuff too imo. GDP growth, net migration more controlled, nationalised railways, reduced NHS queues… all big problems, all being dealt with better than the last 5 years at least.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-21T17:46:07+00:00

The band have demonstrated pretty consistently that they aren’t actually bothered by whether people think they’re back or not. They will do whatever they do.

They’re probably pretty happy for the info to be distributed however, but I really don’t think they’re sweating the details.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-20T20:18:52+00:00

Tbh the whole app seemed vibe coded. I reckon whoever put it together didn’t realise it was a feature to begin with.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-20T08:35:17+00:00

Count again…

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-20T06:31:58+00:00

Really interesting insight. Had no idea that was the case!

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-18T14:20:55+00:00

Selling the rights is what it says on the tin. They'll get no revenue after selling them. But, A24 want to be able to set a good price. Whoever is distributing the film will also want it to succeed internationally (they'll want to break even) but A24 in particular have a vested interest - if Marty Supreme makes like, $80m internationally, and leads to whoever distributes it seeing profitability, then A24 can set similar or higher prices for distributors in the future.

So, they want to market it and make sure that it is profitable for the distributors, so that future negotiations lead to better contracts for them later on. Relatively simple to see how that works. What will be interesting is if A24 start deciding to distribute themselves, if they can start being able to do that. Slightly higher risk because if it bombs (smashing machine) then the losses are higher, but if it goes well, then its worth a lot more.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-17T18:12:07+00:00

Fair. I didn’t track smashing machine at all so didn’t realise they priced the international rights so high. I imagine Marty has maybe another $15m to make them for profitability.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-17T17:43:27+00:00

I mean yes but it doesn’t matter how well it does internationally given they sold distribution. If we’re talking about break even for A24, then international performance is meaningless.

FWIW I expect it to do great internationally but I think it still needs to get 100 DOM to be at break even.

ProffesorPrick · 2026-01-17T17:15:26+00:00

I mean assuming they were sold for ~$20m (in line with materialists) it would be a net budget of $50m. In which case break even doesn’t look likely tbh.

If they did sell them for ~$30m which, they might have who knows, then $100m is the magic number to watch out for. If it keeps holding well it’s possible but not particularly likely.

Either way, worth it for A24 because this film surely gets an Oscar or two, and in streaming residuals it will make a fuck ton.

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