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Shot on an iPhone? Jay Pharoah? Amy Irving?! Intriguing if nothing else.

They're most upset about the classification, whether the HFPA or Blumhouse is responsible is secondary really : Fans Outraged at ‘Get Out’ Golden Globes Comedy Category, Jordan Peele Jokes: It’s a ‘Documentary (The Wrap) “Get Out” will compete as a comedy at Golden Globes and people have feelings (Salon) ‘Get Out’ Will Compete As A Comedy At The Golden Globes and Twitter Managed To Be Mad About It On Both Sides (Decider) Golden Globes ignores horror of racism by categorizing ‘Get Out’ as a comedy (Rolling Out) Get Out Is Being Submitted to The Golden Globes As a Comedy? I Guess That’s a Choice. (The Mary Sue) Racial thriller ‘Get Out’ is labeled a comedy for Golden Globes: What a joke (Kansas City Star): Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/jenee-osterheldt/article184793428.html#storylink=cpy Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/jenee-osterheldt/article184793428.html#storylink=cpy

So, it's actually a real Twitter outrage, about the Golden Globes being "racist" for putting Get Out in Musical/Comedy. Can't say I saw this awards season controversy coming!

Pretty nuch, for movies outside of the BOT sweet spot (franchise tent poles, action, sci-fi, horror, major studio animation, bro-appoved directors), there won't be a ton of discussion in the movie's individual news thread. If a movie "unexpectedly" takes off (i.e. despite BOT's expectations), usually the box office discussion for it ends up in the daily/weekend/club threads. It's not that people aren't excited about LB in other places...just checked the AwardsWatch forums, between all the Lady Bird news threads there, they are well over 3,000 posts. It all just depends on what the people who "go" to a particular site want to talk about the most.

The makeup artists who did all that work on Spacey, though, there goes their Oscar nominations...

Wait, what? I have to see this now, who am I kidding, find those scenes on YouTube... Oops, though this way, the movie gets way more attention than it ever would have if they'd just cast Christopher Plummer all along.

Boo 2 cost $25m, Jigsaw at $10m can't possibly look as cheap.

I watched their review--Boo 2 cost $25 million?! Either those Youtube/Instagram stars command a pretty penny or $24M really is going to Tyler Perry.

One of the AwardsWatch podcasters called Breathe the "Dollar Store Theory of Everything", it looks like even prestige audiences agreed. LOL, the Best Actor race Ouch for Professor Marston, what is Annapurna doing? Should have been in maybe 300-400 tops, but probably even less than that.

...ask not what the weather can do to you?

Emma Stone as Billie Jean King is not even in the Top 20 of biopic attractiveness upgrades, I doubt it's even a minor factor in the movie under performing. When Emma briefly couldn't star in it, they cast Brie Larson. Holly Hunter played her in a TV movie ( and really, saying a woman looks like a man? Ugh). It's not unusual for Hollywood to want to paint a pretty picture. Have you seen the real JM Barrie compared to Johnny Depp circa 2004? LOL BOTS probably flopped because the reviews aren't so good that they can overcome it being a tennis movie (and about a story that's over 40 years old, at that). The tennis movie has a marginally better box office track record than the chess movie, but the history with both genres is pretty dire, frankly.

Surprised there isn't a "No refunds after the movie starts" policy, or if people complain enough, they get free passes anyway? Sometimes the theaters here put up signs at the ticket window if a movie is "challenging", for The Artist there was a sign about it being silent and in black & white. Basically a warning ahead of time, so, hey, don't come looking for a refund later because we're not giving it to you.

Thought the initial reports with the Manson movie were that Margot and J-Law were always up for different roles, Robbie for Tate and Lawrence as one of the Manson Girls. Not nearly as exciting for some people as pitting two actresses against each other, but that's the internet for you.

But a movie can catch on with mainstream audiences without necessarily being designed for them. The degree of Black Swan's success was a pleasant surprise, that doesn't mean anyone planned for that when it was greenlit. Awards success, maybe, but if Black Swan had made just $40m it would still be considered a hit that tripled its budget, but not in break out territory. All directors and studios hope their movies are successful, but hope is one thing and expectation is another. A studio expecting mother! to replicate Black Swan's success or thinking a $60m spend (between the budget and P&A) would be worth it financially, well, I'll be nice and call it extremely optimstic. Critically is another story. Anyway, we've all followed movies and box office long enough to know studios can make some...interesting decisions, and certain failures are easy to spot from a mile away. So, maybe the studio expected, say, $60m, but maybe people also aren't wrong for questioning if that was ever realistic, considering its content. Now that it's opened, though, saying "It was never meant to be commercial!" can come off like a bit of an excuse but to be fair, there was a, "Yeah, I don't know about this," argument going all along before it opened.

Pretty sure the concern was WOM, they knew it would be fairly toxic (even in big cities) and wanted to get all the money they could while they could.

With mother!, the movie is pretty extreme, not everyone liked what it was selling. Add in the lead star, some people have a lot of...feelings about Jennifer Lawrence and are very invested in her failure/success.

Noah came in under Black Swan domestically, about $40m more worldwide. Obviously Swan overperformed for a $13m movie, but I think the studio hoped for more for their $125m Biblical epic, maybe more like $500m worldwide instead of what they got. The $13m figure thrown around for Mother made sense; it's the same as Black Swan. I figured the limited advertising before was because they knew this was pretty WTF and figured a big ad spend wasn't worth it. $30m P&A to get an $8m opening, that's gonna hurt. Maybe father! with Leo has a $30m OW but even he had J. Edgar (and father! costs much more than $30m besides). No star can sell absolutely everything, that's been true ever since there have been movies.

Really? So the movie is completely useless, then...

Watching a new House Hunters (she's looking for the farmhouse style in Phoenix, where do they find these idiots) and during the commercials they're running these advertorials for Home Again. The director was showing off the house in the movie and discussing the atmosphere she wanted to create with it, interspersed with movie clips and a voiceover saying the movie opens on Friday. The movie is sure to flop, now I really just want to see if the daughter of Nancy Meyers has inherited her eye for gorgeous movie houses.

Or cast a lot of shorter actors, but Freddie's swagger/charisma that was the thing that made him appealing so to some degree I think audiences will be able to roll with it. I mean, it's not like they cast Kevin Hart in This Is How He Did It: The Montell Jordan Story. Pretty please can this movie include Live Aid and what happened backstage (allegedly) when Freddie Mercury met Bono for the first time:

It was an embarrassing enough performance as it was, without adding nudity to it! Also Judi Dench keeps her wimple firmly in place. You know, if the main couple had any heat at all, the "year's sexiest thriller" talk wouldn't have been completely false advertising, just marginally false which is par for the course with Hollywood. You wonder if directors can tell during filming that they've miscast a major role but it's too late to do anything about it? With the troubled history and not-huge budget, it's not like Weinstein or Chadwick had the luxury to give Dane DeHaan an Eric Stoltz, Stuart Townsend-style heave ho after 2-3 weeks.

Oh, and as for the sex/nudity, because I guess that might be a factor in whether some of you guys ever bother with this :