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All of Jem's budget went to getting Chris Pratt, The Rock, and Ariana Grande to cameo (not Fallon though, he's a Comcast shill).
They show up in this?? Bizarre.(Well, not so much for Grande, perhaps, but...)
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Including the docs, there are 4 Steve Jobs movies in the last 4 years. All 4 may combine for about a whopping 40m DOM.
This is crazy. Maybe people just feel like they "know" Jobs well enough through everything else that's been published/produced about him...and the man himself?
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This explains a lot about how they screwed fans over. http://www.indiewire.com/article/how-the-jem-and-the-holograms-movie-manipulates-its-biggest-fans-20151022
This gets more hilarious the more you read. The fans abandoned this movie early.
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Weird. Why bother trying to get fans input for such a relatively "cult" interest and then not use it in good faith or...taste?
Also surprised John Chu went for this...I'm sure he had better bigger opportunities after the last G.I. Joe (which I still haven't seen).
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On that subject, maybe Fassbender is just in the wrong kind of "adult" film to be a *ahem* big draw...
I still haven't seen Shame...should I? ;-)
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220m on a 60m budget while having to change the release date and limit marketing because of a shooting is a good. Of course it was going to get a sequel even more so after the success it found post theatrical run.
Agreed. And I like this movie a lot, actually...even more than a lot of recent Cruise (and I'm not saying any of them are *not* quality). I think it's an interesting mid-budget little series that he can establish here that could even take him into his post-action-MI days...if he has them.
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In before Hollywood says "We're filling October with Blockbusters next year because we clearly see that audiences aren't interested in 'adult' films...unless they're porn."
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So...uh...no one has asked "the question" yet?
Is this guy Blofeld, or not? I'll still see the film...I just want to know. Did they keep that after everything leaked?
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VIn Diesal is ,frankly, not a draw outside the F and F franchise.Frankly, if not for Fast and Furious, he would probably be doing DTV movies by now.
True. I just think it's forgotten or misunderstood sometimes how he went back to Riddick with seemingly no real financial or career incentive, but because he (and certain people like me) like him as that character. I'm surprised it got made at all...just like I'm still surprised Hellboy II got made, even though I'm fan. ;-)
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Yeah, they're fighting for survival, just like any other business. They have valid concerns. The studios are trying to squeeze the windows tighter and tighter...what incentive is there, then, for theaters to pay for these films, ones that have such immediate VOD escape windows? I see their point...
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Riddick and Witch Hunter prove Diesel can't carry a movie.
The irony is he's central to the success of a billion dollar franchise.
To be fair, the last Riddick was made totally independently (he stuck his neck out on that), and cost less than half of LWH...is probably a better movie...and will probably end up better "on the books" than LWH, as well. But yes, your point is taken.
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Everest did big business in IMAX.
The Walk was apparently doing all his money in IMAX so it probably did ok for the format as well. Not as well as The Martian would be doing, of course.
Crimson Peak is not the type of movie people go see in IMAX. I am surprised The Last Witch Hunter isn't getting IMAX next week. Crimson Peak is gonna have IMAX for 3 weeks lol.
Will it survive that long? I assume that's what your "LOL" is for...
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Hearing multiple accounts, yes, second/third hand, but of people "walking out" in both America and England...interesting (see my thoughts above).
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Are there spoilers allowed here? I don't know where this "female audiences will love this" is coming from, either...the main character is
basically "saved" by not one, but two men.
It also opens with that awful framing device of
"I have a lesson to tell you, the audience, and as you see, I'm near death, but I survived...here's my story." No suspense, then, at least for me, to the fate of the main character...
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Haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth since maybe 2009? So I cant really say anything about it, though I remember there being some HORRIFYINGLY violent scenes in there like the guy bashing a dude's face in with a bottle. Those stuck out.
Yeah. There's more of that in this. Needless, really.
(Actually, I was sure he was going to go all Blade II in an autopsy scene (which I loved in that film context), but he held back... but much other gore for those interested in pure gruesome stuff!)
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I saw this last night. If you're a fan of GDT, it's a howler (and not in a good way). It played alright in a pretty packed theater (and in "LIEMAX Experience"), but for general audience prospects, I can't see what they get out of this. It's not entirely a ghost-film. It's not entirely a horror...yet entirely gruesome in that GDT fashion...but doesn't really need to be. It's a gothic melodrama masked with ghost "quotes" as GDT likes to say. And quotes to his own material. (Nice to see "Palmer" from The Strain!) I laughed at every self-reference to his previous work, both specific and loose homage, down to the blatant lift of...well, you'll recognize it when you see it. GDT's last two films have been his most disappointing...but I liked Pacific Rim more than this! Coming from a fan of his earlier work, I wish he'd get back to something small and culturally more familiar to his...idiom...as ethnically racist as that may sound. Devil's Backbone is still my favorite of his. And there's this weird fading out thing that begins to happen after nearly every scene in the third act...it's strange and gives me the impression that they re-shot and/or were re-figuring the whole last half-hour or more of this film in editing...
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99 Homes Foreclosed
Why did they open this so wide so fast?
I'm wondering if Zhang Yimou's Coming Home is gonna hit the top five this weekend (yes, sarcasm) -- I was one of five in my local theater on Friday night...the other four were two geriatric couples.
And the punchline is the box office guy heard me wrong and actually sold me a ticket for 99 Homes...so I didn't even give money to the film I wanted to...sigh.
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Exactly, when I heard about the...er...accelerated production of Fast 8, I wondered how VD (his initials, funny that) would be fitting this in before Fast 8...which will presumably involve even more Tyrese and godwilling, more Tony Jaa as an evil twin brother out for revenge.
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Looking at $17 mil. or lower for the weekend...ouch.
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The CGI blood was never the problem. The problem is the mano a mano fights were so good in the first and for some reason, they got away from that in the sequels. Van Damme should have fought Lundgren in the second and Li should have fought Gibson in the third. Missed opportunities.
The second film is the best one, and Van Damme helps make it so (who would have said that ten years ago?) I wanted the letter opening scene at the end to reveal that Van Damme actually had a twin brother as a way of bringing him back for the next movie...I was so sure that was where they were going!
Gibson was indeed a missed opportunity...his fight with Stallone was like...five seconds? Snipes was the most entertaining thing in the third movie!
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Have to chime in because of my name...ha. Kudos to those who can identify the two stars of the original Highlander in this trailer! Nice to see them in another film together, regardless of whether they share any screen time...though I would love to see that!
"Meh trailer" ? Really? I'm no Coen Brothers fanboy, believe me, but this sparks my interest in the old 'Hudsucker Proxy' vibe...I love it!
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Jurassic World redux? It also seems like Deadline took out the "serum" bit from their details...they must have let loose some spoilers they weren't supposed to...
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I'm going to say something crazy. The last film was ludicrous (and I'm kind of a fan of a the last few). But bizarrely, Tyrese was the most entertaining thing in it!
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For me, the best song of the last fifteen years is still Cornell's.
But then again, I'm also a big a-ha fan...so go ahead, you Bond rats, poo-poo me.
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I hear the possible running time on this baby is 2 hours, 40 minutes?!
And no, I'm not talking about how long Sam Smith likes to hold his notes while he's attempting to sing...
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SPECTRE | 11/6/15 | Final Trailer on Page 126! | Twitter reactions coming in, STID 2.0?
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