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I'm still inwardly laughing at how everyone at Paramount involved with Baywatch blamed RT and said that audiences obviously really enjoyed it. Yet its legs show no indication that audiences took to it at all. They seem to make up their own story that allows them to keep doing what they're doing. But then again, that may be why studios like Paramount are falling behind, they don't seem to care to be in touch with audiences. Disney, for all the claims of its unoriginality, seems to be understanding what audiences want right now and are giving it to them. Universal and Warner Bros are also doing pretty well too, but they also seem more willing to take creative risks. And creative risks are how you start large franchises and have large hits. There aren't many large franchises right now that didn't begin with risk.
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People are giving RT too much stock. I think it probably plays a marginal role (especially for smaller films) but I don't see it being a defining factor. Think through it GOTG Vol 2 followed a massive WoM hit, it would have increased OW fresh/rotten and legs were decided by WoM. Were Snatched or King Arthur appealing looking movies? No, if anything RT just solidified that. Alien Covenant was fresh and still disappointed OW, and most definitely had terrible WoM. I think Prometheus and franchise fatigue played larger factors here. Pirates 5 was following the trend of the franchise, with each one decreasing by decent percent from the last. Despite that, it still attracted a larger audience this summer than anything not comic book so far. Baywatch may have been somewhat effected by reviews, because I think they have a larger effect on comedies and smaller studio movies. But it could have also simply been audiences rejecting the concept, it's not like Baywatch is something that's in the pop-culture conscious anymore. Wonder Woman had great reviews yet still opened under MoS, SS and BvS which had poor reviews. There's a variety of reasons for that, but reviews are obviously not one of them. Maybe you could argue it would have opened higher with better reviews, but it didn't stop the last three. The Mummy did not have an appealing/original trailer beyond Tom Cruise. It was a reboot of an age-old and dead franchise, I don't think positive reviews would have saved it DOM. Again, more of a sign of franchise fatigue that I'm sure both GA and critics felt. Rough Night wasn't registering online even before reviews, there was no reason to expect a breakout from it. Trans5mers is the fifth movie in a franchise that's had diminishing returns. I don't think people didn't go see it because it got trashed slightly more than the last one, I think people skipped it because they're done with Transformers movies. Not saying good reviews can't help and bad reviews can't hurt. Good reviews can put a movie like Get Out on people's radars, it can also help people for a movie they're on the fence about. But they aren't the make/break factor for every movie. I'm willing to bet any correlation between the two has more to do with critics and GA tastes aligning more often than not.
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Id love an anthology series, there's so much lore in the ASOIAF to explore. I'd especially like them to explore more of Essos and Sothos, beyond what we've already seen. Another good thing about an anthology series is it could give a variety of directors and producers to take a stab at something, and if something doesn't work, you'll be okay in the next season.
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A Get Out Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Logan Wonder Woman B Alien: Covenant The LEGO Batman Movie Beauty and the Beast Kong: Skull Island Megan Leavey Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Split C The Case for Christ A Dog's Purpose The Fate of the Furious Ghost in the Shell Gifted Life The Wall D 47 Meters Down Baywatch Before I Fall Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul The Great Wall The Mummy The Shack The Zookeeper's Wife F All Eyez on Me King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Monster Trucks Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Planning on Renting The Lost City of Z Your Name Land of Mine John Wick: Chapter 2 Raw Colossal Free Fire T2: Trainspotting The Founder Heal the Living Personal Shopper Kedi For sure seeing in theaters (June) It Comes at Night The Big Sick The Beguiled I, Daniel Blake Baby Driver Despicable Me 3 The House Beatriz at Dinner Transformers: The Last Knight (July) Dunkirk War for the Planet of the Apes A Ghost Story Atomic Blonde Spider-Man: Homecoming Lady Macbeth Menashe Lost in Paris Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (August) Detroit The Dark Tower Wind River The Glass Castle Good Time The Hitman's Bodyguard (September) It Kingsman: The Golden Circle The Solutrean Woodshock Ninjago American Made Flatliners Samson (October) Blade Runner 2049 2017 Cloverfield Movie mother! The Snowman The Mountain Between Us Geostorm Granite Mountain (November) Coco Thor: Ragnorak Murder on the Orient Express Suburbicon Darkest Hour Justice League Wonder Mary Magdelene The Star (December) Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Disaster Artist The Shape of the Water Pitch Perfect 3 Downsizing The Post The Greatest Showman on Earth Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle The Current War The Six Billion Dollar Man Untitled PTA Ferdinand
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Paramount should do the next Transformers movie set entirely in China, fill it with Chinese stars, have parts of the movie in Mandarin, and figure out parts of Chinese culture to incorporate. Maybe get that Fast and Furious guy to do it. Im not even joking. It wouldn't make a difference in the US, as it'd bomb either way, and internationally it's not any different than setting the movie in the US. They should experiment and be the first Hollywood studio to make a movie catered for China. (Then again, Mulan might also fit that bill, even if it's aimed at a Western audience too)
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Paramount isn't dead because Transformers is (expectedly) underperforming domestically. They aren't even making the Transformers movies with the US in mind really, it'll still made a nice profit. I do think it'll have diminishing returns world wide though, and so I don't see there being much more to milk from this franchise after this.