Jayhawk the Hutt
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8 hours ago, MovieMan89 said:
3 hours seems ridiculous for a “Part 1”
title. Yes, I know Cruise has tons of momentum right now (and this franchise has kept momentum for years now), but they really really need to change that title.
Do not market a “part 1” and then also ask people to swallow a 3hr runtime, it’s gonna cut box office.
Don't think it really matters much. If it's good, people will show up. There is still a chance they cut a decent portion out of the movie. McQ and team are very cognizant of pacing and how an audience engages with a film. They cut a lot more out of Fallout at the end than you'd think.
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3 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:
Air (which was incredible) gonna do 60m with good legs this month - a nice number for a film like that!
INT numbers were good as well. Should do over 100m WW
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Would say this looks better than KotCS (a film I enjoy and think has some rather standout action scenes) since that, despite clear effort, still had too much Janusz-milky flair over the classic, practical look of the original 3. This one still doesn't have as much of a stripped-down look as I would have liked, but it gets closer. They also clearly shot as much as possible on practical locations/sets, the chase scene in Morocco in particular looks great.
Also, the face de-aging, while not absolutely perfect, is the best I've seen considering the challenges of fully applying it to a massive action set piece with significant lighting changes. Still interested to see/hear what Ford moves and sounds like in the flashback, though it seems like they used a body double for the really stunt heavy stuff there.
Overall, very excited for it. Indy is one of my absolute favorite franchises. I've been hopeful (even against better judgement) the whole time for this, but got especially excited since reading about what Mangold was trying to accomplish. By leaning into the whole age thing, not treating it only as a joke, but as an actual thematic underpinning of the story seems to be the best way to actually counteract the whole, "am I supposed to believe Indy is still having adventures as a geriatric!" take that seems to most plague the very idea of this movie.
Looks like that faith is paying off with Disney's clear confidence in it.
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1 minute ago, kayumanggi said:
2.5M Thursday for AIR
MOTORING!
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31 minutes ago, Seth Irskens said:
What time is the panel est time? Will be streamed live?
Pretty sure it starts at 6 AM EST and runs through 7:30 AM-ish. It's in London this year.
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We may get a new trailer at Star Wars Celebration on Friday during the studio panel. They premiered the first promo still at last year's SWC.
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37 minutes ago, Eric is Norlar Aver said:
Disney/LFL is clearly very confident in this. KotCS also premiered at Cannes, but only 4 days before release. This is premiering nearly 45 days before release.
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4 minutes ago, TheDude391 said:
We're gonna look back post Spielberg's passing and shake our heads at our past selves for totally dismissing his late career output. Those anonymous oscar ballots talking about Fabelmans spoke volumes, been a while since I've seen something just completely fly over people's heads like that; totally missing the point. They got filtered!
The sad part is that it those reactions weren't even looking at the movie on a surface level. It is rather explicitly sad and not "movies are magic and solve everything." They seem to be reacting to the marketing campaign more than anything.
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1 hour ago, Hatebox said:
Has a stunt ever been so spoiled/previewed this much before? Not complaining - it's clearly done its job.
The hanging on a plane stunt was incredibly heavily marketed as well
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13 hours ago, HesAPooka said:
Audience loved it, better fuck around and cut some out.
Well it could be true that they gave it high scores but also gave notes that it felt too long. They cut quite a bit out of Fallout to pace it better.
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1 hour ago, Maggie said:
I don't like how this is sandwiched between Indiana Jones and Oppenheimer. It will lose the PLF screens to Oppenheimer in its second week. ugh...can it move up a week? what do you guys think?
Not sure if it will keep Dolby screens in the 2nd week or if Barbie or Oppenheimer will get. But I am assuming they don't want to move it up since Indy will likely hurt it more than Barbie/Oppenheimer.
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I would say that the early embargo ending is more indicative of critical consensus than what Viewer Anon has heard, but that 3 hour runtime is a big concern personally.
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6 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:
what cruise is doing is simply ridiculous but I like this marketing technique. Builds up hype organically months before the release. If Chris Mcq has written a tight script like what he normally does, I have no doubt this will be the biggest MI movie domestic. WW depends on how strong $ is during its release and if china will allow it.
It's pretty wild how successful the stunt hyping has worked for the franchise the past decade+. But it does show fundamentally how much love and care goes into these movies. People really like them because they can feel they are extremely well made and considered, even if ultimately they are big dumb fun action movies!
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Fantastic movie. Had the theater to myself (that's what I get for seeing a Friday matinee in a small town), but what a great ride.
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Teaser made me tear up. What a great trailer, immediately became an all-timer for me.
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Don't think it will be universal acclaim, but certainly seems like a lot of folks love it. Tough to tell from the reactions, as it seems somewhat divisive, but plenty have said it's crowd pleasing. May just be one of those movies that doesn't necessarily get the best audience score but still gets solid legs based on the whole, "you just gotta go see it" factor,
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First batch doesn’t include a lot of out and out critics (esp the big ones) but def seems the late embargo was more about spoilers than any concern about quality. If it’s as good as these folks are saying it is it will have no problem making money.
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I know it essentially means nothing, but Nope is starting out with an 80/100 on Critics Choice.
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Just now, LonePirate said:
It is indeed early but we may need to temper expectations for today. Things seems to be noticeably cooler at the theaters around me when compared to last weekend when things were simply insane. I’m guessing the weekend drop will be closer to 50% than 40% but maybe I will be surprised.
Way more walkup heavy than opening weekend. 70m seems to be a pretty safe bet at this point if 22m+ holds.
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6 minutes ago, Brainbug the Dinosaur said:
Could these insane weekday holds lead to a weaker Friday jump? Weve seen this with other films this year as well. So i would be cautious with 70M+ Expectations for the weekend.
Even with really weak jumps/holds feel like 65m+ is extremely likely.
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Never really been worth presale tracking in my area since it is always so low (it's incredibly walk up heavy), but top gun has really good sales at the regional chain for this weekend. This is exactly the area where I would expect TGM to over index, our county has the highest proportion of veterans in the state, and is generally pretty conservative.
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I don't necessarily they will strike immediately on May 1st (I could be wrong here). They just have the authorization to and will not be operating under a current contract. If they are still in good faith bargaining, they will hold off until it's clear no deal can be made.