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Variety's awards section is now run by a guy named Clayton Davis. He is notorious for being a terrible prognosticator, so just ignore everything that he says

Todd Phillips has a history of hits. He will be alright, but Phoenix, on the other hand…

It is not about audiences knowing or caring. If he has a history of bailing on projects, then it is going to be hard to get him insured or to get financing for the project. Studios are not going to want to take on that liability either if everything he touches bombs anyway. It is not as if he has ever top lined a hit outside of The Joker anyway, so he is not exactly Leonardo DiCaprio or Will Smith

Let’s have a more interesting conversation: Joaquin Phoenix has to be done, right? Every project of his since 2019’s Joker has been a bomb. (Shit, Beau Is Afraid’s bombing is responsible for having A24 pivoting to more commercial entities, according to The Wrap.) Now, even his franchise that catapulted him is becoming a historic bomb. Between that + the Todd Haynes situation, he has to become persona non-grata Hollywood. Todd Phillips does not come out the worst in this situation; it is Joaquin Phoenix.

There has not been a hit Superman project in theaters since the 70s or 80s. This is about to be one of the biggest bombs of next year

He is not, though

With the current overseas numbers as an indicator, it is going to have to gross Dune 2 numbers in America to hit $400,000,000+ globally

That is the problem: general audiences never said that. Letterboxd and Twitter are the ones carping about superheroes

I have no idea why the internet and entertainment journalists went all-in on Twisters, but it has always been pretty unfathomable as to why they put such high expectations on it. It has always given Independence Day: Resurgence vibes, and it is not even going to outgross that if the overseas numbers are of any note

There is no way that Apple’s board is going to allow them to continue squandering $100,000,000+ on these projects. That is from every huge territory except China and Japan, to make things even more pitiful

Hasn't Twisters already opened overseas in some major territories? Are the numbers terrible?

Macbeth came out when there were still corona variant concerns and a questionable adult box office. I highly doubt that A24 is not putting a Denzel Washington starter in at least as many theaters as Maxxxine

High to Low adaptation?

I made my account nine years before you made yours, but I actually have things going on in reality. You oughta use that as inspiration. Nevertheless, this is the bust that is going to engender mass psychosis amongst posters on here. It is going to be 100x worse than Furiosa

As I stated a few weeks ago, this was always destined to be a bomb. No one has even uttered the word gladiator since 2000, so why are people acting as if it is Titanic or anywhere near equivalent to that? This is absolutely something that no one has been anticipating or asking studios to produce. The lead is also only known by weirdos who post on Letterboxd, so who is this supposed to be for exactly?