{"id":327145,"date":"2024-08-05T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T02:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=327145"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T14:13:20","slug":"vegas-sphere-to-pay-80m-to-bring-dorothy-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-sphere-to-pay-80m-to-bring-dorothy-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Sphere to Pay $80M to Bring Dorothy Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment, is about to pay more than anyone else in history for a movie ticket.<\/p>\n

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AI envisions how Dorothy from \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d would look projected on the outside of the Vegas Sphere. (Image: Chat GPT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to <\/span>the New York Post,<\/em> Dolan is nearing the end of negotiations that will allow him to pay $80 million to adopt \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d to the Sphere, which contains the largest movie screen ever built. This officially confirms a scoop <\/span>first broken by Casino.org<\/em>‘s own Vital Vegas<\/em><\/a> on June 5.<\/span><\/p>\n

For perspective, the original film cost $2.7 million to shoot 85 years ago — still only about $25 million accounting for inflation.<\/p>\n

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Dolan is negotiating with Warner Bros. Discovery, which now owns “The Wizard of Oz.” About 15 years ago, the movie studio purchased the rights to the Oscar-winning 1939 classic starring Judy Garland — in addition to all other MGM productions made before 1986 — in a merger with a $43 billion price tag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What\u2019s expected to result is an 80-minute trip down the yellow brick road, lopping about 20 minutes out of the original film, but adding in cutting-edge visual effects and haptic seat immersion.<\/p>\n

Perhaps there will even be flying monkeys. We can hope, can’t we?<\/p>\n

According to The Post,<\/em> work hasn’t yet begun on the project at the Little Sphere prototype in Burbank, Calif., so this is still probably several months to a year off.<\/p>\n

That means, \u201cPostcard from Earth,\u201d the 55-minute sci-fi plea for environmentalism shot by director Darren Aronofsky, will be seeming really old by then. The movie still runs three times a day since premiering along with the spherical venue in September 2023, with every ticket costing $114.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s without the massive interest sure to be generated by anything new involving Dorothy, Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Toto. (You thought we would forget Toto, didn’t you?)<\/p>\n

According to a source quoted by The Post,<\/em> Warner Brothers Discovery will collect 5% of the gross profit from showing the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment, is about to pay more than anyone else in history for a movie ticket. According to the New York Post, Dolan is nearing the end of negotiations that will allow him to pay $80 million to adopt \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d to the Sphere, which contains the largest movie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":327146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,81886],"tags":[91957,85030,88343,83667,87683,81970,91161],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVegas Sphere to Pay $80M to Bring Dorothy Home - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"James Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment, is about to pay more than anyone else in history for a movie ticket. 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