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  1. this was announced before the film was released. April 16th was the original PVOD date. Kung Fu Panda is April 8th Ghostbusters in JUNE 17TH
  2. It didn't. They outsourced the animation to studios all over the world and paid the animators barely anything. Just like Sony and Illumination. I was really baffled over why a bunch of Hollywood people (who were on strike for 6 months) praised TOHO instead of actually questioning just how they were able to produce Godzilla Minus One on the budget they gave it.
  3. I've been catching up with WWE for the first time since I was kid because The Rock is back. I am terrified of how entertaining I'm finding this shit. Sending Vince McMahon to jail may have been the best thing they've ever done.
  4. 5 TV channels when I was younger. It was a great way to discover movies. I would never have seen films I love like EuroTrip, You Don't Mess with The Zohan, and 16 Blocks, if it hadn't been for the fact that there truly was nothing else better to watch when they aired on TV. Things like Letterboxd and Rotten Tomatoes only ever highlight 'critically acclaimed' cinema - if people only watch the same movies and don't form their own tastes we'll end up with really boring people.
  5. Exactly. The young people are not aware of these old franchises, and the kids that do think the reverence placed upon them is OTT . They did not grow up watching Columbo with their parents on the one screen in the house. They didn’t just stumble across James Bond because it was the only thing on TV at that moment. Disney are about to release a Tron sequel for a bunch of kids and teens that legitimately do not know what on earth Tron is. I knew what Tron was before Tron Legacy came out because Tron occasionally aired on TV.
  6. Universal owns Casper's rights through the Dreamworks Acquisition. I read there's hesitancy with studios relying on properties as old as Casper. The public domain laws on Casper kick in in 17 years (that sound really far away but remember the Tranformers movies started in 2007, 17 years ago) . Disney spent a lot of time minimising Mickey from the public consciousness so they didn't get shell-shocked once Public Domain kicked in (no Mickey movies, they removed Mickey Mouse logos from things like Disney Channel, no non-preschool Mickey Mouse animated series for 20 year etc.).
  7. I remember they created their own sub-studio called Ghost Corps. No idea if it still exists in any interesting capacity though.
  8. An 86% is B+ to A- but its still too early to call. We'll know for certain later today.
  9. The last movie felt morbid. That last scene where the girl was hugging that CGI dead man was insane.
  10. Less than $40m OW prediction just hit. It might be over.
  11. Both the 2016 and 1984 films were just okay and any hoopla created by either was unwarranted.
  12. The fact they were dragging that husk around for as long as they did was actually admirable. Gone to the grave with Machinima, CollegeHumor, Epic Meal Time, and FunnyorDie.
  13. So there was strong concern that MAX wouldn't launch in the UK with all the cost cutting going on, but it looks like it's going down.
  14. I’m fascinated by the idea that Netflix’s US only deal with Sony stops movies from being flops. Films get licensed to TV channels and streamers globally all the time. I don’t think whatever Sony has with Netflix is so lucrative it can be pulled out like a consolation prize whenever one of their films flop (unlike the CW’s old Netflix deal which effectively funded their slate).
  15. Most movies now are either a flop or not making as much money as they could’ve. Studios are also going out of there way to minimise the coverage a flop receives for being a flop (remember that movie where J-Law ‘brought back the R-Rated comedy?’). TMNT gets a sequel because Paramount thinks there’s room for the series to grow. Dune 2 might lose money. So be it. The market flipped over night. Movies are being given a lot more grace than they used to get when it comes to BO nowadays.
  16. and The Oscars became an obnoxious endurance test almost instantaneously.
  17. So this has never been true btw. The whole thing rests upon a really old racist notion that Japanese people are entirely alien to behaviours or practices the rest of the world wouldn't bat an eye at, and that they take simple slights or inconveniences as an act of dishonor like something out of an old Samurai movie. If Sony didn't know how to work with or compensate for westerners than they wouldn't even attempt to do business in the West. Sony rebooted their biggest movie franchise. They didn't reboot it because actor was late to a meeting or whatever.
  18. Had the same thing with SpiderVerse 2. Turns out the cinema I went to were legally forced to lower the sound at nighttime to not bother the neighbours.
  19. They’ve had 4 of these films so far and only one of them is good. That’s the problem.
  20. PVOD Metadata already uploaded BTW. Dune 2 PVOD - April 15th (might be sooner due to international rollout)
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