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BadAtGender

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  1. It's good. Both PacSci and Cinerama are exemplary theater experiences, especially since PacSci seems to do 3D a lot less, now. It's a pity they got rid of their 15/70 projector, but the laser is still nice. And both tend to get animation pretty rarely, so I try to catch those if I can. I think both are going to have Frozen 2 for a fair bit, though, until Star Wars opens.
  2. So, do I first want to see it at the Cinerama or on the PacSci IMAX. (also, is the double feature going to happen?)
  3. Electra and Catwoman both came out since. The conventional wisdom was that superheroines couldn't sell, rather than bad movies don't sell.
  4. I think most of the effects on movies have already been felt. As noted, mid-level movies have largely died off in theaters, leaving it to be a tentpole field most of the time. I also don't think that the release of Disney+ is going to form doom for Netflix. Disney is of a very specific mindset, and that mindset is "franchise". The high profile original content is going to either be MCU or Star Wars, which... doesn't really affect much. Netflix and Amazon and HBO will continue to generate their own original content. I see two things eventually happening. One, the services that exist within the same corporate umbrella (HBO Max and DC Universe; Disney+ and Hulu) will eventually be consolidated. (The exception to this will probably be content for a specific audience; I don't expect ESPN+ to be folded in.) Two, there will be increased perpetual exclusivity. Disney films will only show up on Disney+, and WB films will only show up on HBO. The other studios, which may or may not have their own efforts in the mix, will probably partner up with an existing platform. Or get bought out by the same. I could easily see Amazon and Apple just outright buying a studio, if only for the guaranteed back catalogue. Apple may need to do this, because of a relative lack of its own content.
  5. IIRC, Frozen's run in China was also leggy. It looked extremely disappointing at first, but it held onto modest business and was even extended beyond the original 30 day release window. I don't believe there was any indication that audiences disliked the film, but rather that it was something of an unknown that still got people interested.
  6. 4 quad isn't necessary for big previews. A dedicated fanbase is. Relative to OW, female driven films with a large fanbase tend to have extremely large previews. Look at Twilight. Look at TFioS. Look at Hunger Games. Look at Harry Potter. Frozen has a fanbase on That Level. The previews are going to be massive, but it will look a little frontloaded over the weekend.
  7. 75m Fri 55m Sat 40m Sun (170m OW) 15m Mon 20m Tue 25m Wed 18m Thu (248m Week) 42m Fri 40m Sat 25m Sun (355m 10-Day) (107m 2nd) (150m 5-day) 683m DOM 948m OS 1.631b WW
  8. Ah, well. Being busy didn't leave me time to go through the whole decade, so I didn't submit. Also I seem to have lost what I did get. IAC, Network was my #1. I think The Castle of Cagliostro would have ended up #2.
  9. I wouldn’t be, necessarily. They still might not be at final cut and want to see what works. Heck, they might go with a subpar cut just to be sure they haven’t missed anything that might work from it.
  10. I'll see if I can get this done. I've been overwhelmed by schoolwork
  11. Stylistically, they apparently had a lot of say. The early MCU films, even into early Phase 2, were pretty distinct. Thor feels like a Branagh film. CATFA a Johnston film. Avengers is clearly Whedon, even down to the "hey, I'm used to shooting on TV" look to it. And IM3 is about as Shane Black as you can Shane Black anything. There definitely was a period in the middle where everything felt very same-y, which seems to be less of the case, now (though the Russos continue to churn out mayonnaise on wonder bread as far as style is concerned). TDW might be lumped into that middle period. Would that have been the case under Jenkins? Who knows, but really, it was mostly definitely a mistake because it pissed off the lead actress enough that she had nothing to do with the franchise for six years. Praise Waititi for fixing that fuckup. Meanwhile Jenkins basically single-handedly saved the DC films from wallowing in the cesspit of internet debate.
  12. She was working. At one point she was the director for Thor: The Dark World, but Kevin Feige fired her and pissed off Natalie Portman in the process. Something that wasn't healed until Taika Waititi brought her back. Besides that, she's done a lot of well regarded TV work, including the pilot episode of The Killing. If you want a reason she wasn't doing feature work, sexism in the industry is probably a big culprit. Women in Hollywood were rarely given second chances for even slight mistakes, even if they're massively successful (see Catherine Hardwick getting ousted from Twilight) while men are given chances time and again. Jenkins got pregnant at one point which is a big career derailment (See Joss Whedon's treatment of Charisma Carpenter after her pregnancy). Working in movies is a hustle. Every is a self-employed contractor and all the work they do isn't on their IMDB page. For everything we know that Jenkins (or anyone else) has worked on, there's probably a few things that didn't pan out.
  13. Network (dir. Sidney Lumet) Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) Watership Down (dir. Martin Rosen) Star Wars (dir. George Lucas) Alien (dir. Ridley Scott) The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (dir. Liu Chia-liang) The Rescuers (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery, & Art Stevens) Mad Max (dir. George Miller) The Warriors (dir. Walter Hill) Wizards (dir. Ralph Bakshi) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg) The Wiz (dir. Sidney Lumet) The Muppet Movie (dir. James Frawley) Oh, God! (dir. Carl Reiner) The Lord of the Rings (dir. Ralph Bakshi) Being There (dir. Hal Ashby) Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (dir. Vincent McEveety) The Jerk! (dir. Carl Reiner) Heaven Can Wait (dir. Buck Henry & Warren Beatty) Grease (dir. Randall Kleiser) Animal House (dir. John Landis) Added some more. Still a work in progress.
  14. I think Disney might have killed my interest in movies this summer.
  15. Shrek adjusts to 426m. Shrek 2 did 640m adjusted. Frozen adjusts to 441m. A sequel above 600m isn't hard to believe.
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