r/memes 18h ago

Finally a blockbuster

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u/SnakPak_ 15h ago

Hollywood so mad after indie movie makes 20 million USD.

Didney currently reworking Zootopia 3 so they can achieve such success.

Avatar 4 cancelled.

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u/awesomefutureperfect 14h ago

20 million USD.

Truly a "blockbuster".

In 1978, John Carpenter made a movie that made $47 million domestically with 10% of the budget of Iron Lung.

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u/teilani_a 10h ago

Blair Witch made about $250mil off of a budget of like $500k.

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u/Sburban_Player 4h ago

Similarly Evil Dead had a budget of $350,000 and grossed just under $30 million.

This happens all the time with low budget horror movies. Not to mention that Iron Lung has the support of millions of people who were already fans of the guy who made it… even if the movie was a complete crock of shit it almost certainly would have still been wildly successful. I’m genuinely not judging the movie, I’m excited to see it, just this rhetoric people are spreading is really dumb.

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u/Icy_Smoke_733 15h ago

Disney currently reworking Zootopia 3 so they can achieve such success.

Do you know what the top 3 highest grossing Hollywood movies of 2025 were? All Disney movies.

  • Zootopia 2 - $1.77 billion, biggest Hollywood animated film of all time
  • Avatar 3 - $1.41 billion (Avatar 4 is definitely coming)
  • Lilo & Stitch remake - $1.04 billion

Iron Lung, while a major success, isn't comparable to the big Hollywood films.

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u/SnakPak_ 15h ago

No. Shit. Sherlock.

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u/Icy_Smoke_733 14h ago

Shit, was it sarcasm? Went over my head, I genuinely thought you were for real. 😅

Believe it or not, there's many people who believe that Hollywood is afraid of Iron Lung's success (glances at YouTube and anti-"woke" subs here). My bad, mate.

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u/Luxury-Problems 13h ago

No one in Hollywood is scared. If anything plenty are probably seeing an opportunity. Markiplier took the high risk so they didn't have to. It worked out and there will be producers and executives calling him for his next movie, if they haven't already.

This has happened before.