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Another reason to make a movie PG-13 is for the audience who avoids R-rated movies even though they're old enough to see them. If you were appealing to a bit of a faith-based crowd, perhaps?

Hey now, Shannon Elizabeth just had a new TV show annouced, there was an ad on the Grammys and everything...

It's not... Sure, you get men who rag on 50 Shades because it's geared to women but plenty of women also think 50 Shades isn't particularly sexy, believe there is much better erotica around and are baffled that the Twilight fanfic is the one to take off. Good for the fans who like it, I guess, but a property having a fanbase doesn't make it immune from criticism.

At least Joaquin and Rooney found love... Weren't the animals in The Greatest Showman all CGI? Seems like that would be expensive.

I absolutely know who he is, I grew up watching soaps! Eric Braeden being in Titanic (he's John Jacob Astor) was one of the top reasons I got interested in following its progress. Whoa at MoviePass going into original films, the theater chains can't compete on that level because that's against the monopoly laws. Though I suppose Amazon could suddenly decide to get into the movie ticket selling business too and then it's bye-bye MoviePass. The Post projections seem kind of low.

Awwww, bb Julianne Hough, so presh...

The Greatest Showman, crazy. I don't want to hear any studios complaining about Rotten Tomatoes for a while. It's not going to be Lincoln or anything, but Darkest Hour is doing better than I expected when the first reviews hit. This list has been posted in a couple other threads already but since we're talking MoviePass so much... They haven't released any per movie numbers but did post their overall list of most seen movies last year, you can see it's not an exact correlation with the box office as a whole. Your Top 25 Movies of 2017 25. Ferdinand 24. Jigsaw 23. Geostorm 22. Downsizing 21. Shape of Water 20. Pitch Perfect 3 19. A Bad Moms Christmas 18. Happy Death Day 17. The Foreigner 16. Wonder 15. Daddy's Home 2 14. American Made 13. The Greatest Showman 12. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 11. Lady Bird 10. It 9. Kingsman: The Golden Circle 8. The Disaster Artist 7. Blade Runner 2049 6. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 5. Murder on the Orient Express 4. Justice League 3. Coco 2. Thor: Ragnarok 1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi The percentage of total tickets sold thanks to MoviePass clearly isn't the same for every movie, for a blockbuster it may be minimal but for The Disaster Artist or Lady Bird, I'm guessing it's substantial. Maybe those people would have paid to see these smaller movies anyway, but maybe not.

It's clickbait, if that's all they have, it won't turn into a real scandal or anything. Stops the bleeding, though they are probably more worried about his "likability" (and bankability) being hurt than anything else.

Oh noes time to reshoot the film again...

The singalong tactic for musicals always makes me LOL, it seems kind of soon for TGS given how well it's dropping. 300 theaters seems low, maybe they will add more in the coming weeks.

I think it was American Hustle, it was discovered that JLaw and Amy Adams had fewer back end points than the main male cast, even Jeremy Renner, so they negotiated for them to get more (though still less than the men). When the Sony leak happened JLaw was surprised and pissed to find out.

How many cast members were involved in the reshoots? Plummer, Williams, Marky Mark are the big names but other characters shared screentime with Getty, Sr. and it wasn't all CGI/cutaways spliced in with the old footage. Wahlberg made 1500 times as much as Williams on the reshoots! I know Ridley is 80 and DGAF but they really should have warned him not to mention the cast pay part of it... I'm really glad it's come to light, just thinking about the PR aspect of it all. Since they have the same agency, I wonder if hearing the story that they both worked for scale is the thing that was the tipping point for some lowly assistant/accountant there to leak the real story to the media.

That, and it was pushed pretty heavily in the promo, the idea that everyone came back and worked for very little so that the reshoots could even happen. Maybe not a good move to mention the cast and crew working for free when there's such a glaring exception... Clearly many men involved in the film also worked for scale with the reshoots, but paying Marky Mark more than 100x more than Michelle Williams makes the "Gender Pay Gap Outrage!" headlines very easy to write. And as someone who's seen the movie, she's so much better in it than him! Too bad they couldn't have recast Marky Mark too while they were at it.

Hmmm, didn't pick up on that at all. More real life controversy, coming right up:

The acting is strong (except for two glaring exceptions in one episode) but they make the Queen so passive and reactive and friendless, when she really wasn't like that in real life. Claire Foy is brilliant in the role, though, so I just have to think of it as lavish fanfiction by someone who would have rather made a show about Prince Philip (but wouldn't have gotten the funding that way). Wow at The Greatest Showman, and it's not stopping after this weekend...what's the last movie that opened in 3,000 let alone 2,000 theaters to get a 10x multiplier?

So, "Three Billboards is problematic!" has morphed into "Three Billboards is the new Crash!" And the Oscars aren't until March this year...

Given its tone/subject matter, Lion was not a movie whose target audience was the same crowd that helps movies break per-theater average records in limited NY/LA opening, I always thought its early release pattern was strange. A better start doesn't necessarily mean a better finish for Darkest Hour, it's well off The Imitation Game and a bit closer to Jackie, though I expect DH to make more than that one, ultimately.

Definitely not right now... I wonder if this awards season, as Nolan makes the rounds, will anyone dare ask about DOR putting him in a headlock and threatening him so he'd drop Jude Law from The Prestige? Allegedly, but the story goes that it happened at a party with witnesses, and no less than the New York Times reported it so... Mattie is so annoying in the 1960s version, I couldn't get through the whole thing. The Black Friday increases don't seem to be as high this year. Is everyone shopping online? The big chains are also having insane in-store only sales to get people to come back.

Call Me By Your Name is adapted from a book, it's considered one of the great gay novels of the last 10 years apparently, that gave it a bigger following from the start compared to an original film with much less name recognition in front of/behind the camera. Not that Hammer and Chalamet are A-list household names, but look at how much of the God's Own Country talent doesn't even their own Wikipedia pages. Even AwardsWatch isn't all that excited about God's Own Country, that should tell you all you need to know about its box office prospects.