redfirebird2008

I'm not sure about that. It's a mixed bag in some ways. On the negative side: The last time Hollywood put out a movie with Oppenheimer as a main character, it bombed hard in 1989 with a $30 million budget and less than $4 million of total box office. That $30 million budget in 1989 was pretty damn big. Burton's 1989 Batman film had a $40 million production budget for perspective. The 1989 Oppy film had Paul Newman in the Matt Damon role of General Leslie Groves. Paul Newman won Best Actor at the Oscars for The Color of Money in March of 1987. So his name brand in the late 1980's was about as hot as you can get, and the Oppy film still bombed really bad. Knowing these facts about what happened with the 1989 movie, it seems like a pretty big risk by Universal to spend $100 million on production & another $100 million on marketing the new Oppy film. On the positive side: Nolan obviously gained a lot of credibility and brand power with his earlier films in the 2 decades leading up to the release of his Oppy film last year. The film accidentally ended up with a perfect release date, thanks to all of the Barbie hype on the same opening weekend. Oppy did not have the full screen count Nolan probably hoped to have, but a pretty decent chunk of the Barbie audience decided to also check out the Oppy film. That's a pretty unexpected boost for Oppy's box office from the Barbie fans. Another accidental element that helped Oppy's box office is Vlad Putin constantly threatening to launch nukes at Western countries. This could have created a negative effect in the sense that people would rather bury their heads in the sand instead of watching a movie about such a serious subject matter. But maybe this type of nuclear fear-mongering in real life actually gave the movie some kind of extra boost at the box office.

Throwing nostalgia at the audience is not original. It’s not creative. It’s simply a cash grab. See The Force Awakens in 2015 as a perfect example of this.

Really? Inside Out is an expensive, original movie that came out in summer 2015. It was far riskier than the movies you are listing here, other than Oppenheimer. The praise you are throwing at some of these films is not much different than what people were saying about Captain America: Winter Soldier in 2014 or Captain America: Civil War in 2016. It’s all just well-made franchise material.

It’s still just IP with large built-in audiences. The brand is a requirement to have success. I find that pretty sad when looking back to earlier decades.

You listed zero original movies.

The negative stuff on Titanic was before the movie was shown to anyone. That's not the case with Coppola's movie. The biggest studios in the western world saw the movie on a giant IMAX screen and they don't think the movie is good enough to invest their money into a market & distribution budget.

Pretty sad article.

It seems Europe always has more vacation time than the USA. Our corporate masters in America really like to grind us into the ground, lol

Never paid attention to it. My company would give us Friday off, but not Monday.

So I guess some people must have been off from school or work yesterday. These drops look like summer Monday holds.

What year is it, 2010?? Sorry to hear that. Thankfully 3D has basically died in my area.

Don’t really care what he chooses for his movies. But I will be happy if he avoids franchise projects for the rest of his career.

Thursday preview showings for Ghostbusters hurt Panda & Dune. It will be interesting to see how those films play on the weekend.

They should keep re-releasing it in North America, Europe, China, and wherever else. $1 billion would eventually happen, lol

Awesome!!