‘Rebel Moon’ Was Bigger Than ‘Barbie’ Using Zack Snyder’s Calculations
deadline.comNumbers don’t lie, goes the saying. Or do they? Zack Snyder believes they can sometimes disguise the truth, as he related to Joe Rogan in a recent chat.
Snyder’s Rebel Moon was distributed by Netflix, and that service’s methods of accounting may disguise how successful the film was, Snyder claims. “You think about Netflix, for instance, where you push a button,” Snyder said. “Rebel Moon, right?
Say right now it’s almost at 90 million views, right? 80 or 90 million accounts turned it on, give or take. They assume two viewers per screening, right?
That’s the kind of math. “So you think if that movie was in the theater as a distribution model, that’s like 160 million people supposedly watching based on that math,” he continued. “160 million people at $10 a ticket would be…what is that math?
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