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I mean, there was a time in Hollywood where any movie with songs performed was considered a "musical", but now people mostly mean a musical theater sort of thing. Which, ASIB was definitely not. But it was a romance of a messy couple with music involved, so maybe that's why it's comparable to Joker 2? Guess we'll just have to wait and see...

Those two statements seem contradictory: Joker 2 will have complicated musical sequences but will be less like In the Heights (which had lavish, elaborate sequences with dozens of characters at times) than A Star Is Born (where two singer characters mostly just performed on stages or in recording studios)? I swear, sometimes this movie seems like a Mad Lib that got out of hand...

Well, Tom Cruise sent back the three Golden Globes he won, does that mean Top Gun: Maverick is getting blanked? It's not really a modern Globes sort of movie anyway, but they do like having popular stars attend.

So back in 2009, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opened mid-week to capitalize on the July 4 holiday. In the estimates, Paramount reported a five-day opening of roughly $201 million. The final figures for the Fri-Sat-Sun portion were $3 million off from the initial estimates. Did this put the nice round $200+ million five-day number in jeopardy? Well, here's the footnote from the Box Office Mojo article that weekend to explain: Lots of box office watchers and reporters at the time called shenanigans on Paramount. The theory was that weekday numbers were easier for them to fudge-allegedly, the studio inflated Wed-Thurs to get over $200m, then deflated some later weekdays to play catch up and have the overall total be accurate. Again, allegedly, as studios are supposed to report accurate final numbers. Anyway, from then on, any time a movie had suspicious numbers that seemed too good to be true, posters on box office forums would start joking about Puerto Rico.

They're back on TV! Will the stars attend? Probably...

The Actorle game has a TV version now! It looks like it just launched yesterday. Instead of listing the show's IMDb ranking, it gives you the number of episodes the actor has appeared in for each series. https://actorle.tv/

Well, they did just cancel the Scooby-Doo movie as well. With Batgirl, many people are willing to believe it was too small scale or tested poorly or otherwise wouldn't fit into the latest 10-year plan for the DCEU. An animated Scooby Christmas movie? It wasn't $90 million and nobody buys that it's not good enough to be shown publicly or it will ruin the Shaggy Dopamatic Universe continuity. Both movies getting canned were cold business decisions, but with Scooby it's much more overt: there's no artistic reasons to hide behind. So, Scoob & Co. getting left out yesterday is no surprise, really.

It's like they made this move for me: I watched Fixer Upper all the time before it left cable but never felt compelled to get Discovery+ just for the Magnolia Network. Now, I don't have to! I do like HBO Max a lot, they'd better not touch the TCM hub. HBO Max already has its share of non-scripted programming: in the Reality section, I counted over a dozen Max Originals (vs HBO Originals that aired on the channel)--competition shows, dating shows, a cooking show with Selena Gomez. The Magnolia Network shows will fit in just fine.

Stifler's mom has got it going on...

It skews very young: even during summer, are that many parents really taking kindergartners to 9-10 PM Thursday previews? I don't think the early preview start time for Super-Pets is the same advantage that it is for movies that skew older. Barring a massive fan rush, the preview-to-OW multiplier for Super-Pets should be higher than a lot of other summer movies.

Good lord, it's nearly August, did it really take him this long to "reflect"? Did Oprah say no to a sit down, so the only other option his team came up with was Will reading off the questions himself, like in the auto-complete interviews? This is better than a very special episode of Red Table Talk, I guess.

I think the people who rage about female superheroes weren't really here for Black Panther, even before, and were probably the ones mad that it got more Oscars attention than Infinity War (while insisting they "don't care" about awards). So picking a female BP would be immaterial to them, as in their opinion, the existence of Black Panther movies at all is a sign of how Disney has gone "too woke" or whatever. The Recast T'Challa people aren't happy with the trailer either, but a "movement" that makes a lot of noise on Twitter doesn't always amount to much in real life. I feel like Letitia must have a big role in Wakanda Forever or else the production wouldn't have been held up that much by her absence.

LMAO, I really thought this was a biopic!

The Tragedy of Macbeth was Apple/A24, and it looks like Apple hosted the FYC page. Still, a second priority for them compared to CODA. I wonder which studio has the final say about release dates in these co-production situations. Apple would have every reason for KotFM to stay in 2022 while Paramount might want to hold off to 2023.

Maybe they're in denial, but the awards bloggers seem skeptical that this is really moving to 2023. The Deadline article leaves some wiggle room and the prognosticators feel it's unlikely that the movie would already be set for Cannes next year (versus a fall festival). Also, Apple has other prestige projects expected next year-Napoleon, plus Emancipation could be ready for 2022 but they might want to put more distance between it and The Slap. Would they really add something else to their 2023 slate? There's a report that a Killers of the Flower Moon trailer was recently rated and is coming soon, but the source seems to be World of Reel, which has whiffed on some "scoops" recently. I guess we'll know the truth sooner or later...

It looks well done but this just happened on TV this year: And maybe it's just social media but there's a segment of Black Twitter who'll give a knee jerk "trauma porn" reaction to any story that covers US slavery or the civil rights movement. Then they decide whether or not they like who is telling the story. Granted, everyone doesn't feel this way and the movie stil might be successful enough, at least critically.

Usually those flattering pull quotes are from reviews, even if the writer's name isn't listed. It makes sense that the critic is going, wait a minute, that's not what they said. The ad didn't list some social media handle because when they do that, it's a dead giveaway that the published review from the outlet was negative, so the studio had to resort to finding Twitter randos to come up with positive blurbs. For a movie that's like 80 percent on RT, it's so unnecessary.

At least I get why a British movie would want to create the appearance of getting a 4-star review from The Guardian, it's a very prominent paper known for its arts coverage. Even the trolling aspect got them publicity without any legal trouble: the Guardian gave Legend two stars and that's what the poster technically displays. Nope has plenty of actual good reviews from reputable outlets, so why not just use those in the ads? I guess The Wrap is important in the industry, but I don't think regular moviegoers know or care that much about it. So, The Wrap didn't like a horror movie: who cares? Also, most critics are on Twitter, did the Universal PR team think the writer wouldn't see this and say something?

There was a limited series about her earlier this year, Women of the Movement. The attention to this case is good, but I just never would have guessed Hollywood would fund multiple narrative projects in the same year about Emmett Till's mother.

Hmmm, I've heard Wilde made a lot of changes to the original script floating around the internet, but I still see a lot of the same elements. It'll make for an interesting Film Twitter Discourse, if nothing else...

Most American residences have air conditioning, though it can vary by region: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/no-relief-from-the-heat-without-air-conditioning-in-many-homes-residents-in-these-cities-swelter/ar-AAZFgrf I guess if people want to get out of the house and be somewhere cool, they could go to the movies instead of doing some outdoorsy thing. But I'm not sure extreme heat would boost movie theater attendance in the US like it can in some other countries, there's air conditioning in most indoor spaces already.

That part is pretty indefensible, Snyder himself never had a bad reputation before now. I wonder what the DCEU stars are going to say to this news, you know everyone's bugging Jason Momoa and Gal Gadot for a comment.

Fair point, that's still an overwhelming majority of legit accounts. And bots don't necessarily cost that much, it isn't like only A-listers could afford them, or there aren't any fans crazy enough to put their time/money into spamming Twitter to support their fave. Many bot services are less than the price of a concert ticket. ...but it would be an incredibly easy thing for a celebrity to do, or for their publicist to do without the star even knowing about it. "Hey, boss, look at all these tweets that I secretly helped plant, so much engagement, the studios love it! Now how about giving me a raise?" Or the star pushes their publicist to "put their name/project out there" and doesn't want the details so they can maintain plausible deniability.

The SnyderBot Army was funded by Snyder?! LOL, and people were always saying Zack seemed like a decent guy and it was just his fans who were toxic. Was he behind the #OscarFanFavorite wins, too? Imma need to see this backed up by someone besides Rolling Stone, though, they've come out with other "explosive" stories that fell apart under additional scrutiny. OTOH, I've heard of influencers using bots to goose their follower counts or fans doing it out of their own obsession, so the big names going there themselves is the next logical step.