While I don't think we really need to compare it to Better Call Saul: definitely El Camino was amazing. I had so wanted Jesse to make it to Alaska... And then he does! So satisfying!

As the film, The People versus Larry Flint outlined, where Hustler Magazine parodied Moral Majority leader, Jerry Falwell, celebrities are not protected from being ridiculed in the media. Even if The Nicepool character were fully intended as sn overt parady of Baldoni, this would not be actionable.

What I most about this film Is that that climatic scene with Kurt Russell giving him monologue would commonly be played at a dance club franchise I'd often go to at the time, 😜 usually to general applause and whooping!

I think that you're confusing net- and gross-. Gross doesn't have anything to do with the input costs (So the 25 mil spent on it wouldn't matter.)

The whole thing with film earnings is kind of weird. I mean the right stuff which had come out like 8 years earlier was considered a flop but everybody seemed to have seen it and know all about it. Even a local car dealer used its name on their marquee. It felt like a hit despite its apparently having lost money?

Films can I have an impact beyond their gross earnings (or net earnings for that matter).

It was helpful that you gave some context on the gross earnings though!