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My god, who cares hahaha

I mean, you don't have to.

Not sensing much of a break-out tbh. I was off on Kongzilla, but this kind of feels like a $90-105m dom grosser rn

They shoot further away from release. I think F4 only starts shooting 11 months prior to release, for example

April ‘24 might not be amazing for the box office, but it looks really great from a quality pov imo. Hopefully we got a breakout or two as well, but considering how dry the year has been so far outside of Dune - it’s pretty cool to finally have projects to look forward to

This feels like an omen for a $90m opening for Mortal Kombat II….

This could be good or terrible, but it sounds so conceptually interesting and audacious that I have no choice but to be extremely excited. I think it’s so fascinating to see that urban city planning & architecture is the lens that FFC is using to tell a story about the future of America, but I’m sure it’ll also be some metaphor for film-making as well haha (“what if the architect… represents… the film-maker 🤯)

I was gonna make a joke about how Twisters appealing to middle america was ironic given its director, but then I remembered how Minari felt like one of the quintessential “American” movies of the last few years - and makes the fact that it got a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign picture even more, uh… strange haha

Yeah, I was initially not very bullish on DP3 given the Shawn Levy of it all, but it’s pretty clear the buzz is there in a way where it just isn’t for a bulk of recent mcu stuff. $400m dom feels likely?

Holland’s Romeo vs. Chalamet’s Prince Hal - Dawn of Twink Death

Agreed, and sometimes the doom-posting feels so performative on here haha. Like there's some prize for who can be the biggest cynic

Sounds really cool. Love the Hathaway resurgence we're having; thought she was insanely fun in Eileen just last year

Beetlejuice should at least do decent, mid trailer & all

Idk, Godzilla ‘14 definitely felt like it was trying to build tension, but the whole enterprise just felt so inert. There was a sense of scale, but it was never coupled with a sense of dramatic urgency like Cloverfield or Minus One had. It felt like a lot of nicely composed images that never signified much, but I also find Edwards to be one of the most dramatically inert directors in Hollywood right now so maybe i’m biased lol

He kind of just got lucky with a lot of these lol. That said, the stuff that Abdy & De Luca have been green-lighting recently has been nothing short of insanely exciting; really cool to see a major Hollywood studio green-light so many big, non-IP auteur vehicles lately. The sad undercurrent running through the whole thing is that I feel like a lot of this is just to get WB in good shape before the inevitable sale; the next WB CEO could just turn it into a re-run of the Tsujihara years where it's all shitty prequels no-one asked for haha

Would be awesome to see Scream 7 flop ngl

Big, expensive auteur vehicle? Warn a Brother!

If this hits 76% fresh, it will be the fourth Monsterverse movie with that exact score. Most consistent franchise in Hollywood?

The acronyms had me going crazy for a second, haha

Not good to speak in absolutes like this imo

Holy fuck, finding out Saawariya is based on a Dostoevsky changes everything hahaha

Adored crime & punishment when I read it during my angst-ridden senior year of high school; interested to check it out again now that I no longer feel contempt for my fellow man. Need to read his other stuff eventually; saw a copy of “The Idiot” at a bookstore cafe the other day and it took all my willpower to not splurge lol

I don’t re-read books often, but my second round with Moby Dick made it sky-rocket from merely something I appreciated a lot into one of the best things I’ve ever read. I think it helps that I’ve grown a lot in the years between each reading, but some of the passages are just seared into my brain. I think every recent graduate who starts working can relate to Ishmael’s eternal quest for purpose haha Also @lorddemaxus i’m about to start War & Peace next, so it feels incredibly serendipitous to see your post here lol

The Sony deal doesn't include future Monsterverse or Dune movies; those will still be at WB

Felt good about this one for a while. Thought Bullet Train was supremely lame, but the Gosling/Blunt duo here looked so much more fun than anything in the last 3 Leitch movies. Not as bullish as i was before w/ $70m, but I can see it hitting $55-60m OW pretty easily. May is pretty much empty until Furiosa, so I could see it getting some good legs too