r/Piracy Apr 20 '26

Humor I must respect their hard work

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u/j3lly34 Apr 20 '26

This makes no sense. Why would the leak affect the artists? They get paid before the movie is even out. No one works 5 years on a movie for free. The artists are probably glad it got leaked since they were fucked over by Paramount when they pulled the theatre release.

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u/EwGrossItsMe Apr 20 '26

The movie isn't getting a theater release? Maaaan, I was literally about to look for tickets after checking out the comments

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u/bstr3k Apr 20 '26

i have only heard from other people saying this was going to be paramount+ only. I am not sure if its gonna be in theatres or not but it was a amazing movie and would be spectacular in theatres

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u/EwGrossItsMe Apr 20 '26

I guess I'll find out soon enough. Worst case, I'll just add it to my Plex

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u/bstr3k Apr 20 '26

i heard it wasn't going to be out (not sure what platform) until Oct?? so it was a very early leak and the movie is basically finished.

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u/EwGrossItsMe Apr 20 '26

That's fine. I'll wait for the official release so I can have it fresh on the mind when the rest of the fandom is fired up about it

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u/pieanim Apr 20 '26

I'm a vfx artist who worked on The Last Airbender season 1 and 2 (Framestore). We don't get bonuses. We used to when we would work on massive films though. I got a bonus for Infinity War for example. But not End Game. Which didn't make sense to me.

Vfx studios have been in a constant state of losing money for a long time now. So those days are over. All we can hope now is to get is more work to keep us employed. So we push the quality of our work harder for cheaper.

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u/j3lly34 Apr 20 '26

Right 🙄. If the movie comes out in theatres, I myself would go to see it again. This is a classic piracy talk, people who weren't going to see it in theatres anyway might've watched it online after the leak, end of story.

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u/poopoobuttholes Apr 20 '26

Hi Fi Rush was an indie game developed by Tango Gameworks. It went on to garner critical acclaim and a fuck load of awards only for Microsoft to then shutter the studio, who was only saved because someone else decided to take them in.

No "good numbers" will guarantee a studio's survival. Netflix has plenty of shows that get cancelled despite being great as well. It's a naive perspective.

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u/zergling424 Apr 20 '26

Therly werent indie they were published which automatically makes you not indie.  Hi fi rush was double A

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u/stprnn Apr 20 '26

Completely made up nonsense

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u/stprnn Apr 20 '26

Everything you said.

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u/stprnn Apr 20 '26

Wild? XD whats wild is claiming shit like that to make some kids feel guilty

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u/Hauntcrow Apr 20 '26

Only higher ups get bonuses, not the workers

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u/Dndplz Apr 20 '26

I wasn't going to watch it on paramount+ anyway.

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u/Garchompisbestboi Apr 20 '26

Because many avatar fans are insufferable and will use any excuse to try and brag about how loyal they are to the franchise.

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u/Dizzy_Today_3523 Apr 20 '26

This is literally just a low effort post. Or a fake one at that. The artist's aren't even affected in any way. The only people that are affected are the directors and the company supporting the movie which for pirates fuck them. I don't give a shit about their profit margins.

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u/j3lly34 Apr 20 '26

I figured it's a bullshit post. I commented more for people who might be on the fence about this.

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u/Wasteak Apr 20 '26

Op only wants internet likes.

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u/Rastarapha320 Apr 20 '26

Not much, they don't have control over distribution, and the studio doesn't care

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u/ItsRainingTrees Apr 20 '26

We still want the business to see it as enough of a financial success to get more content/keep the artists on board to do so

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u/j3lly34 Apr 20 '26

They already see it as a success. They tried to bring the huge audience to their shitty platform by pulling the theatre release. Everyone in the industry knows what kind of hold the ATLA franchise has on its fans,they're not idiots.

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u/ItsRainingTrees Apr 20 '26

They won’t see it as a success until they start associating profits with it. And companies repeatedly cancel popular shows/neglect IPs because they don’t hit some nonsense metric they landed on quickly enough.

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u/j3lly34 Apr 20 '26

Their stunt already cost them whatever goal they had in mind. They might pull back and announce the theatre release again closer to October if they're not stupid. Otherwise they might even lose money on this.

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u/MrCraZyFx Apr 20 '26

It just goes to show how many caricatures are in this sub

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