Man, I hope this is good. The action sequences they put in the previews at least look pretty cool. I suspect it's not gonna be good though.
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If you study wasps, you'll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites/parasitoids or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.
Not sure if I'd call Novocaine a flop yet considering it had a relatively modest budget of $18m. It might make enough to break even or profit still. The bigger indictment is Black Bag with a budget of $50m and opening lower than Novocaine.
I think instead we're seeing more evidence that the mid budget movie doesn't have a place in theaters anymore and the only movies worth putting in theaters are tentpole blockbusters or lower budget movies that don't have to make a ton to break even.
I don't think it's been confirmed whether they've actually written this one off yet or not. There were reports that they had written off somewhere around $115m for scrapped projects last year, but there were no confirmations around which projects specifically were written off.
I'm not an expert in these matters at all, but if they had written it off, wouldn't they have had to destroy the materials?