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The general populous isn't going to care how well this is filmed, acted, and executed if the adaption of Little Women that is releasing wide this September somehow breaks out. Of course, it's within her right for Greta Gerwig to try this, but this isn't really fair for this year's adaption.
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The date for this crime drama has been shifted to February 1st, 2019. It is now scheduled to open against Sony's horror thriller Escape Room and a Jacob's Ladder remake that is being distributed by LD Entertainment.
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I really haven't much horror but I think it would be fun to try and stitch a list together using films I've at least seen parts of. The Descent, Sinister, It Follows, Get Out, and Halloween should definitely be on my list.
I've got a question, @WrathOfHan. Are you accepting Sci-Fi horror such as Annihilation, Cloverfield / 10 Cloverfield Lane, A Quiet Place, and Aliens?
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Blue Sky literally just greenlit an extremely interesting project for 2020, that being a film adaption of the acclaimed graphic novel Nimona (which is a great book). I would be extremely upset if this merger did anything to that specific film, because I feel like Nimona could go where Epic couldn't and knock everybody's socks off if they stay relatively true to the source material.
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1. Ant-Man & The Wasp
2. Sorry to Bother You
3. Eighth Grade
4. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!
5. Blindspotting
6. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
7. Searching
8. Disney's Christopher Robin
9. Alpha
10. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot
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46 minutes ago, That One Guy said:
IMDB says it’s a 2009 release, I don’t think it counts
I'm alright with that. Thanks anyway!
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@That One Guy I have another eligibility question for an obscure anime film that I found on the Letterbox link and Google Play:
This is an anime film by the director of Ghost in the Shell. Wikipedia says that the film was released in August 2008 and that its distributor submitted it to the shortlist for Best Animated Feature for the Oscars of the 2008 films. However, Google Play says a vague 'May 2009'. Should we count it?
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This feels like a good move. America has superhero fever and Venom is likely to be heavily marketed, so it makes sense for this film to move into a weekend in which the other films aren't directly competing for its audience.
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This looks to be a very competitive August; there will be many quality titles to choose from. Christopher Robin, Searching, BlackkKlansman, and Kin have all caught my eye.
Speaking of the eyes, my choice is Alpha; the gorgeous cinematography suggests something special to me.
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This is the exact sort of drama I often find myself interested in.
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9 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:
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I second this; this is a number in which the submittee has seen enough films to be knowledgable about which ones are better than others.
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22 minutes ago, dudalb said:
Someday I hope Christians wake up and see how many "Christian" businesses are taking them to the cleaners.
Elmer Gantry lives!
And I am sickened by all these compassionate Fundy leaders who have spent the last two weeks justifying Trump's seperataion of families. I remember one in particular telling us how the Bible commands us to obey govenrmewnt leaders because they are appointed of God..
Makes me happy to be a agnostic,frankly.
I'll extremely quickly express my agreement; Trump should have stopped it sooner, and i'm happy he's stopping it now.
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I just found out that the Annecy Film Festival has chosen a winner for the Cristal award, and that winner is Funan. According to IMDb's synopsis, it is about the survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime. Past winners include Oscar nominees such as Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Boy and the World, and My Life as a Zucchini. So we'll see if it manages to nab an Indie spot through distribution by someone like Gkids or Good Deed (Loving Vincent's distributor).
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4 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:
Not a bad move given Venom is bound to have 3+ screens at midsize and larger theaters.
Not only that, but Bad Times at the El Royale and A Star is Born look like extremely appealing films. The three films combined definitely pose a threat.
I'm gonna be honest and share my perspective though; as a Christian, I'm disappointed in Pure Flix in regards to this move. The film was in a bold position, poised to make a statement that it was to be the cleaner, more wholesome answer to the other three Hollywood films, which all have some sort of secular flavor. Not only that, but this move follows the placement of God Bless The Broken Road, a film from Freestyle Releasing (distributor of the first God's Not Dead), on September 21st, just one week after this film's new date.
This move could have been made through a human fear of the loss of profit, and another innocent faith-based film may potentially get caught in the crossfire. The move, to me, is further proof that Pure Flix is out to make money rather than art. Therefore, their rude awakening, box office wise, is bound to continue. By aggressively making stereotypical faith-based films that look stale at first glance, they're missing the point of film-making that the people behind I Can Only Imagine understood very well -- that is to make an earnest film that speaks through the silence of visual storytelling rather than unnatural dialogue.
Maybe I'm looking into it too much. Maybe they only did this to separate the film from their other Autumn release, Indivisible, which, in my opinion, from my perspective, actually looks like it could be much better, both as a film and a faith-based film. But the observations that I previously pointed out are too peculiar and coincidental to ignore.
We'll see if this can even gross a substantial fraction of I Can Only Imagine's deserved total (a total which isn't even finished manifesting as of this writing).
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This can be a sleeper hit in that late August slot like Wind River was... I'm sure of it. Many of the other late August films this year seem like they'll have limited appeal, so even if it's directly going up against more films than it would have, it's kind of got an audience to itself anyways and can just stand out from the crowd. Though if part of its audience is an audience that is hoping for a comedy, it might be bad news for The Happytime Murders in particular.
Edit: I might be wrong about this going wide on the 24th... @filmlover raised a very valid point.
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The first ideas that sprang to mind, for me, were Jason Bourne and Chris Washington (Get Out). My list will probably have iconic characters like Indiana Jones and many Pixar characters, though I will only have characters from strictly original scripts.
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1 hour ago, That One Guy said:
So...when will I have an opportunity to do my 2008 list, because that was supposed to be done after the movie lines list
Well, so far, lists have been monthly, so that makes October the next slot for a due date.
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I think it's significant that Universal is handling this film instead of Focus Features. I know Focus Features has their hands full with other promising Oscar titles, but still...
When Universal distributes a film that is intended to be positioned for awards plausibility, they can have some pretty good success; films with varyingly successful Oscar runs that Universal distributed include Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables, Unbroken (getting 4 nominations), Straight Outta Compton (getting an Original Screenplay nom in a very eccentric and surprisingly competitive year for the category), Get Out, and The Post. And most of the ones that don't really get awards are still good films in their own right, if not great (Anna Karenina, Steve Jobs, Rush, American Made).
So Universal must know something about this film to want to distribute it. It'l probably be pretty good.
51 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:Well, I certainly didn't expect this to be the director of Dumb and Dumber To's follow-up.
Universal was the distributor for that film as well, so it's interesting that they're doing this one.
Based on the news about the film's director, either this is a comedy, or this takes advantage of the road trip aesthetic held by the films in the Dumb and Dumber franchise, and the experience that the director has with a road trip style narrative because of that. In fact, seeing the director come from a very bad film (imo) makes me much more interested in how this plays out.
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2 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:
I think it’s going fully wide on the 10th. AMC’s trailer cards don’t say anything about limited, and the poster is even up at my theater
They might as well go for it; the only other wide releases on that date are Dog Days and The Meg, so it definitely has the space for it. This film is buzzy; they mustn't hold it back.
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https://variety.com/2018/film/news/tika-sumpter-sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-james-marsden-1202836306/
Tika Sumpter joins the cast as the female lead.
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I am fine with this development as long as it absolutely does not mean that Call of the Wild is being pulled from that Christmas date. That's my one and only plea. And I am ecstatic that counterprogramming is going up against Star Wars. The less monumental that franchise seems, the more originality might be able to come out of the industry as a whole. Sure, there'll still be Marvel, but it's a sinch by the inch.
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I'm interested in seeing whether Hereditary can surpass Solo on the weekend chart, either this weekend or next weekend. It's holding better and there's a bevy of factors in its favor.
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On 5/15/2018 at 5:40 PM, EmpireCity said:
The bigger thing is I think STX is running out of money and has a chance of either going under or being acquired if they don't get more cash in the door. Their CinemaCon lineup was reduced greatly from the last couple years and they didn't have much to show.
Adrift is likely going to lose them money. Mile 22 was expensive and needs overseas to make money.
Happytime Murders has potential, but could end up being a huge miss. They barely have anything dated after November of this year other than a unmade action film in January and the Ugly Dolls movie in May that they have been working on for years with nothing to show. A bunch of stuff they announced a few years ago isn't even mentioned anymore.
If they don't get a couple hits soon, it wouldn't shock me if STX is a much reduced player next year or out of business.
I hope STX can stay in the game... I enjoy having many different distributors in the fold...
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3 hours ago, aabattery said:
Ooh... I like this poster...
Sonic the Hedgehog | Paramount | Feb 14 2020 | Visionary Auteur Tim Miller to produce | See Sonic's new plastic surgery on page 58
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I definitely want to see Jim Carrey play Dr. Robotnik. That'd be funny at the very least!