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This going straight to Tubi at this point?

 

Kidding aside hopefully it gets a proper release in theaters this autumn.

[Weekend Thread (5/17-19/2024) | WEEKEND ESTIMATES: $35M for IF, $12M for Strangers, $2.85M for Back to Black, $26M for Apes]

Don't all the Apes sequels have steep drops for the 2nd weekend? I actually think that Friday number is good.

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2 hours ago, dudalb said:

I hope some of thepeople are happy when we have no options at theaters but Horror movies, Comediesand Action/CGI driven genre films.

What's this have to do with Coppola making a film that's potentially divisive/bad? Comment would make more sense of it was an overwhelmingly praised film. Movies like this rarely find a large audience even when theaters were healthy? As in, this likely would've done poor business in 2004 too.

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61 metacritic

46% rottentomatoes

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What's all this 1900 talk? I've never even heard of it. Sounds like I should check it out.

 

Hopefully Megalopolis is more Annette and less Gucci/Ferrari. 

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40 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Ferrari, The Last Duel, Annette (Carax isn't that old but it was another movie Driver helped get made) all good. And fingers crossed for Heat 2. If I were him I'd jump at the chance to hang around the old-timers while I still could, too. 

I mean, it usually fascinating. Yeah Annette too. I'd forgotten Heat 2.

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So is Driver's goal to be in mediocre films from legends until they're done? Wasn't Oscar Issac the guy wanted for the lead?

 

It's now been Silence (actually pretty good), Ferrari, House of Gucci, Man Who Likked Don Quixote, Megalopolis. There are more I'm forgetting I'm sure.

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Just now, AniNate said:

 

The thing that really makes me doubtful about long-term prospects is that a lot of the reviews call out the movie for being too "dark", so it doesn't seem like it's mid in the silly fun way that family audiences are much more forgiving of.

It's Krasinski's A Monster Calls.

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11 minutes ago, AniNate said:

 

I'm not surprised per se, but it would've been nice if it wasn't. It got a pretty decent budget and promotional campaign, and would've been a cinephile morale booster if it was a successful original auteur project.

I guess we have Fall Guy for that even if it wasn't a box office success story. It was received well. I'd have that filmmaker as more of an auteur than Krasinski too.

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1 minute ago, cannastop said:

I don't get how anyone could be surprised that this is apparently mid.

His non Quiet Place directed films have not been received especially well. This is not surprising. 

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Well since Quiet Place made him the next Spielberg, he's having his 1941 early here.

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Yeah. Not seeing Spielberg comparisons at all. Even a little. More like Ron Howard.

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23 minutes ago, TomThomas said:

Decent since 1979? He hasn't made a masterpiece since 1979, but he's done plenty of decent movies since 1979. You don't make The Godfather and Apocalypse Now every day.

I guess Dracula was okay. The others... Nah. None decent. Rumble Fish, Jack and Godfather III were especially bad.

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Sheesh. This escalated quickly. My lack of faith is that he hasn't made any decent since 1979. Looks a film made by someone that's out of touch and has made a film in a long, long time.

 

Kissing on the cheek? Puffing some sweet leaf on set? Yeah. No problem with that here.

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1 hour ago, Cmasterclay said:

Tree Of Life was also a divisive Cannes release from a long-anticipated master director that plenty of people hated at the time and said was pretentious non-commercial garbage and some said was the great movie of an era. 13 years on, the latter narrative has certainly won out. I'm not saying that this is going to be Tree of Life in terms of quality and long-term reputation, but can absolutely see some parallels. 

Thought ToL was delayed purely due to Malick taking a hiatus not due to funding.

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Didn't it already screen to potential distributors in LA? If so, I'm not surprised at all if the reaction was muted.

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39 minutes ago, Firepower said:

Looks wild, but I can easily see this getting mixed critics reviews, we'll see, I hope it'll get good enough reception and some Cannes award for Coppola's sake.

 

How exactly? It looks nothing like an average studio or streaming movie, that's why they didn't want to pick it up.

Looks like one of those straight to Netflix "high minded" sci-fi flicks that's forgotten in a day after its debut.

 

Gives off the fumes of stuff like Valerian, Mute or, even, those Atlas Shrugged movies. Might suffer the same fate.

 

Talented or once talented filmmakers made those as well. Well, maybe not Atlas Shrugged but the other two. Looks like Deni V. wasn't as gifted and made Blade Runner... So more like the live action Ghost in the Shell... That looked more refined though.

 

Unless they're hiding a lot or the cast was extremely expensive, it actually looks kinda cheap. Overly dark and heavily digitized to hide blemishes.

 

Again, I'd love to be wrong here.

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3 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

I'm confident the movie will be good and will be received well by critics, probably up for several major awards.

 

I...don't really know how this plays with wider audiences for whom Coppolas name alone isn't enough

I'm not. Frank Coppola hasn't made a good anything in, sheesh, not sure I was born and I'm not all that young anymore. I'd love to be wrong though.

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Looks potentially promising. Also looks like the kinda straight to Netflix sci-fi that's utterly forgotten less than a week after release. We'll see.

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2 hours ago, dudalb said:

I still wish Nermal, the jworld's cutest kitten, would show up sometime.

Is she not in any of the Garfield movies? Have they ever done an And Friends short either? I used to love some of those.

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17 hours ago, DAJK said:

I know it’s way too early to say this, but I’d love to see Krasinski become a new Spielberg: someone’s who’s reliably putting out solid films regardless of the genre. 
 

And this isn’t a “oh wow, DAJK is comparing JK to Spielberg”. Because I know JK only has made 3 films, but the fact that they are two wildly different genres, apparently IF is very very good, and his first film is probably the closest thing we’ve gotten to a modern horror classic in a long time.

Get Out?

 

Peele fits this description more than Krasinski for me.

[Weekend Numbers | actuals | 58.40M KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES | 13.70M THE FALL GUY | 4.38M CHALLENGERS | TAROT]

4 hours ago, abracadabra1998 said:

I watched Challengers yesterday and I quite liked it! Really is giving Saltburn vibes where it does meh in theaters but the buzz is there bubbling just under the surface, and it’ll subsequently blow up on Prime Video

Think Challengers is actually doing okay in theaters. Saltburn essentially did nothing. 11M DOM. 20M WW.

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3 minutes ago, YM! said:

I'm curious about Apes Saturday. WOM seems mediocre but apparently Katniss and TFL’s comparisons seem to suggest over 20m Saturday.

Haven't the Apes movies all been sonewhat back loaded as they skew older?

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11 minutes ago, filmnerdjamie said:

They'll go through the motions and hire a screenwriter.

 

But judging by these #s (especially abroad) and those ratings from CinemaScore and RT/IMDB audience scores... not gonna hold my breath on a 5th Apes installment.

Meh. War only did 146 DOM. It'll get a sequel.

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1 minute ago, emoviefan said:

I don''t know I don't agree.For me the pacing was just fine and the action was exciting and there was enough throughout the movie to satisfy. I can not believe this movie of all movies is getting a divided reaction. But these are the times we live in I guess.

Ya know, we all watch a ton of movies here. We're all gonna be confused by something we loved getting a divisive reaction from time to time. I'm glad you loved it and hope you get to catch it again when it's still on premium screen!

 

It did setup future movies very well (to the point that I wished the ending was actually the beginning of the last act). I think I'll like the next one better. I can't imagine the creatives involved not getting a shot at least at one sequel. They did enough right and the reaction is overall positive. OW DOM is solid too.