Quoted from gambit3113:They already made a Godzilla machine once. They have a relationship with Toho. Godzilla is a huge license.
That was Tri-Star... not TOHO. Same as the current films (WB / Legendary)... not TOHO.
TOHO is much smaller. Shin Godzilla only played independent and small theaters last year everywhere but Japan, while "King of the Monsters" will play every theater on the planet next year when WB releases it.
While it's impossible to want that title more than we did, they are the big fish and will get whatever they go after in most cases. We were "flapping our gums" about Godzilla LONG before we were a company, so kinda hard to hide our love for that title now.
If that's "just business", then I guess we just learned a lesson. I have literally pushed titles that came here, back to Stern because it was the right thing to do... but hey, that's "just business" at Spooky.
Such is life... and Spooky is fine. Disappointments are going to happen. We move on.